AIZAWL, August 17(PTI): Young Mizo Association (YMA) has decided to undertake village population registration in places where Chakmas live on its own if the State Government does not take any steps in this regard. “The meeting of the Central Executive Committee of YMA in Aizawl yesterday (August 15) made the decision to go ahead with village population register,” a statement from YMA said. YMA had tried to organise Chakma Census to detect foreigners or illegal immigrants among them but deferred the move after being assured by the State Government that it was contemplating to do the same. If the State Government had not taken any initiatives, YMA would go ahead with the village population registration without coordinating with the government, the statement said. The move followed the inclusion of four Chakma students to study in medical colleges in various parts of the country under State quota as ‘indigenous people’ last month. Chakma community people are found in Arunachal Pradesh, Tripura, Assam, Mizoram, Meghalaya and West Bengal and Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh. Chakmas observe Black Day in Mizoram Aizawl, August 17 (PTI): Chakma Black Day was observed at Chawngte town in south Mizorams Lawngtlai district on the Bangladesh border today condemning the award of Chittagong Hill Tracts to Pakistan by Radcliffe Boundary Commission on this day 70 years ago. Chakma National Council of India Mizoram state committee, which organised a rally, said that the "unjust award" of Chittagong Hill Tracts to Pakistan (the East Pakistan) during the partition of the Indian sub-continent in 1947 was a "major blunder" committed by the colonial British government. The copies of the Radcliffe Boundary Commission report of 1947 were publicly torched and speakers at the rally also condemned the then Indian leaders for "betraying" the Chakma people. The people of Chittagong Hill Tracts had hoisted the Indian National Flag on August 15, 1947, they said adding that it was not until August 17 of the same year that the inclusion of the Chakma inhabited area in Pakistan was known when the Radcliffe Award was announced in the radio.