A tripartite memorandum of settlement (MoS) was signed between the Centre, Assam government and the militant outfit Dimasa National Liberation Army (DNLA) in the presence of Union home minister Amit Shah in Delhi on Thursday.

Following the signing of the “historic” agreement at the North Block, Shah said there will be “no tribal militant outfit roaming the forests of Assam with arms”.

Shah said the Narendra Modi government has been working relentlessly to make Assam “violence-free, insurgency-free and a development-oriented state”.

A state government statement said Shah announced a Rs 1,000 crore economic package, Rs 500 crore each from the central government and state government for the “rehabilitation” of the surrendered militants of the DNLA, formed just before the 2019 Lok Sabha polls to fight for the creation of a separate state for Dimasa-dominated areas.

Suspected members of the outlawed DNLA had torched five clinker-laden trucks and killed five of their occupants in Assam’s Dima Hasao district in August 2021, three months after six of its cadres were gunned down in an encounter in neighbouring Karbi Anglong district.

Chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said it was a “red letter day” for Assam as another militant group, the DNLA, has signed the peace pact.