New Delhi, Dec 08: With the Assam government accusing Nagaland of encroaching its forest and revenue areas and the dispute lingering on for years, the Election Commission has approached the Supreme Court for permission to set up polling booths in some of the disputed areas during the Assembly elections in Nagaland in early next year. "The Election Commission of India proposes to set up for the convenience of electors certain polling stations in the disputed territories afresh and without prejudice to the rival claims of the states of Assam and Nagaland with regard to their boundaries...," the EC said in an application, which is likely to be heard tomorrow. Narrating the problems it faced since general elections in 1979, the Commission said that the apex court in 1991 had directed the states of Assam, Nagaland and Arunachal Pradesh to cooperate with each other in following the EC directives regarding conduct of polls and setting up of polling booths. Meanwhile, Assam government has filed an interlocutory application accusing Nagaland of encroaching additional areas as large as 54,150 hectares of its forest area and 3,118 hectares of its revenue areas even after it had filed the original suit on the issue of encroachment in 1988. Bureau Report