Center has set up one-man expert
committee of former Union Home Secretary G K Pillai
to study and examine the demand of a separate Bodoland state to be carved out
of Assam.
Official sources the committee will consult all sections of the
society on the viability of a separate state and submit its report within nine
months. After the government's decision to form new Telangana state, the demand
for a separate Bodoland has intensified. The government had set up an autonomous Bodoland Territorial Council in
2003 by signing an accord after years of violent agitation that claimed
hundreds of lives.