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The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on Wednesday has given out data of insurgency related incidents in the north-eastern states, according to agency reports.

The report encompasses the states of Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Manipur, Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram and Tripura.

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According to the MHA report, the main outfits involved in insurgency in the Northeast are: ULFA and its ‘offshoots’, Garo militants in Meghalaya, NSCN and its offshoots and All Tripura Tiger Force and the Liberation Front of Twipra/Biswamohan.

However, in an encouraging note, the MHA report stated that compared to the year 2017, insurgency in the region has declined by 36 per cent year-on-year and by approximately 63 per cent since 2014.

The year 2018 also witnessed a jump in the deaths of civilians and security forces. But the year also saw the highest number of terrorists killed, 270 in total nation-wide ever since the Modi government came to power in 2014. The maximum number of terrorists killed in a calendar year was in 2008 – 339 terrorists neutralized by security forces.

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