AESL already has eight centres in the North-East located at Agartala (Tripura), Dimapur (Nagaland), and Guwahati, Kamrup, Nagaon, Silchar, Jorhat and Dibrugarh (Assam).
Local residents, who have expressed deep distrust of the AR troops and oppose the new stationing, blocked the route by erecting barricades and burning tires.