Bodoland (बड़ोलेण्ड) is a proposed state of India consisting of areas located in the extreme north on the north bank of the Brahmaputra river in the state of Assam, in north east region of India, by the foothills of Bhutan and Arunachal Pradesh it is inhabited predominantly by the Bodo people. 

 Bodos are perhaps the earliest inhabitants of the Brahmaputra valley. They ruled the entire Assam once but after the invasion of the Ahoms their strength doomed. Demand for Bodoland is for the safeguard of the Bodos living in the northern banks of the river Brahmaputra. It is likely that Bodos were lagging behind their fellow Indians in terms of education and employability. Since the time of British Raj, Assam is known to produce oil and natural gas, and Assam tea. Before independence (1947), North-East India was a remote place. With the Union government putting in motion formalities for the formation of the new state of Telangana, the demand for separate statehood for Bodos in Assam has grown stronger. Organizations like ABSU-All Bodo Students Union and BPF-The Bodoland People’s Font showed their strong support.

The Centre has moved to examine another statehood demand, this time for carving a separate Bodoland state out of Assam. On Wednesday, the Union home ministry set up an expert committee to examine the viability of granting statehood to Bodoland, by holding consultations with all sections of the society. The committee will be headed by former Union home secretary G K Pillai, who had also served as joint secretary (north-east) in the home ministry earlier in his career. Even though tensions were apparently simmering for many months prior to the outbreak of the violence in the month of July 2012 in the Bodoland Territorial Autonomous Districts (BTAD) area, the neglect towards the Bodo Accord remained from the Indian Government, with no economic improvement is evident in Bodo dominated areas. Lately, there have been signs of efforts to improve these situations by the Assam Government. 

Although, dozens of lane roads have been repaired in last few years, while hundreds of bridges and other infrastructures remain in somewhat neglected condition. The national highway is in the process of expansion. Whether the creation of BTC (BTAD) addresses the issues of Bodo self-determination remains an open question. During the crisis that unfolded in Kokrajhar and Chirang districts of the Bodoland Territorial Autonomous Districts (BTAD) and the adjoining Dhubri and Bongaigaon districts, Assam witnessed the tragedy of nearly 500,000 people belonging to the Bodo and Muslim communities being forced to take shelter in 273 temporary refugee camps. But it is still not certain whether to give away a part of Assam as separate land.