The region has been deeply affected by factional violence involving several armed insurgent groups fighting among themselves and with the Indian Security Forces.

Since 2011 there has been a decrease in violence following arrests of several high-ranking insurgent leaders and a cease-fire agreement with the Indian Government.

[2] A government of India enterprise, located in the Dima Hasao district (formerly known as North Cachar Hills district) near the Assam-Meghalaya border, the hot spring of Garampani is now lost in the dammed water of Kopili river after completion of Kopili Hydro Electric Project.

Residents in the area claim that the presence of these cement factories has led to chronic air pollution.

Jamuna Devi Saraswati Vidya Mandir, are the three kindergarten through higher secondary schools in the town.