== Economy section replaced == 

 The previous text: 
 :In 2006 the Ministry of Panchayati Raj named Chandel one of the country's 250 most backward districts (out of a total of 640). It is one of the two districts in Mizoram currently receiving funds from the Backward Regions Grant Fund Programme (BRGF). 
 is entirely pointless (Chandel is in Manipur, and the cited source does not mention the statement in the text). Hence my own version with fresh citation.