North-East Frontier Agency

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North-East Frontier Agency (NEFA), originally known as the North-East Frontier Tracts (NEFT), was a political division of British India and later the Republic of India. It was administered by the Government of India through the Governor of Assam and had its administrative headquarters at Shillong. Following India's independence in 1947, the North-East Frontier Tracts remained part of Assam until they were reorganised as the North-East Frontier Agency in 1954. Under the provisions of the North-Eastern Areas (Reorganisation) Act, 1971, NEFA was replaced by the Union Territory of Arunachal Pradesh on 21 January 1972. The Union Territory continued to be administered from Shillong until the capital was shifted to Itanagar in 1974. Arunachal Pradesh attained full statehood on 20 February 1987.

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