In Feb 2021, over 1,000 insurgents from Karbi Anglong surrendered before the state government. Karbi is a major ethnic community of which state?

The correct answer is Assam : 1,040 members of five Karbi ethnic militant groups laid down arms before Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal at a ceremony held in Guwahati on 24 Feb 2021. The extremists belonged to five organisations — People Democratic Council of Karbi Longri (PDCK), Karbi Longri North Cachar Hills Liberation Front, Karbi People’s Liberation Tigers, Kuki Liberation Front and United People’s Liberation Army. Under the Centre’s new scheme for rehabilitation of former rebels, the surrendered militants will be paid a monthly stipend of Rs 6,000 per month and a one-time grant of Rs 4 lakh as a fixed deposit for a period of three years. The developments come a year after a peace and development agreement was signed with multiple Bodo militant outfits, bringing an end to a violent movement for a separate Bodoland. Karbi is a major ethnic community of Assam that live in the hill district of central Assam’s Karbi Anglong. The insurgency by Karbi groups has had a long history in Assam, marked by killings, ethnic violence, abductions and taxation since the late 1980s . These outfits originated from a core demand of forming a separate state. Today, the Karbi Anglong Autonomous Council (KAAC) is an autonomous district council, protected under the Sixth Schedule of the Indian Constitution .