Lai Autonomous District Council

Lai Autonomous District Council (LADC) is one of the three Autonomous District Councils in Mizoram state in North-east India. It is an Autonomous District Council for ethnic Lai people earlier known as Pawi, living in South-eastern Mizoram bordering Myanmar and Bangladesh. The L.A.D.C. has its headquarters at Lawngtlai town, which is the District Capital of Lawngtlai District. Lawngtlai District has a population of 75,477 persons according to Mizoram Statistical Handbook 2003.

The other two Autonomous District Councils in Mizoram are Mara Autonomous District Council (MADC) to the south and Chakma Autonomous District Council to the west. Thus the three ADCs filled one third of Mizoram in the southern part of the state.

The Lai Autonomous District Council occupies a strategic position in Mizoram, in the southernmost corner of the state. It shares a political border with Burma and MADC, the west by CADC, in the north Lunglei Administrative District and in the south by Burma. The Lai Autonomous District Council covers an area of 1,870.75 square kilometres (722.30 sq mi) with a population of 73,620 as on April 2008, and its density is 39 persons per square kilimetre. The entire population belongs to Schedule Tribes.

The Lai Autonomous District Council was constituted on 29 April 1972 under the Sixth Schedule to the Constitution of India. The council is a replication of the State Legislative Assembly. It exercises power over specifically allocated subjects. At present it looks after 18 subjects departments. The Lai Autonomous District Council has also the power to determine language and in the manner in which education should be imparted in the Primary Schools within its jurisdiction. The council has a separate set of laws governing the area, it has the power to make laws as provided under the Sixth Schedule to the Constitution of India. The people of Lai Autonomous District Council area enjoyed special safeguard granted by Article 371-9 of the Constitution of India. The headquarters of the council is situated at Lawngtlai which is also the headquarters of Lawngtlai Administrative District. It is well connected by the NH-54 and is 296 kilometres (184 mi) from the state capital Aizawl.

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