Lai Autonomous District Council (LADC) is one of the three Autonomous District Councils in Mizoram state in North-east India. It is an Autonomous District Council for ethnic Lai people earlier known as Pawi, living in South-eastern Mizoram bordering Myanmar and Bangladesh. The L.A.D.C. has its headquarters at Lawngtlai town, which is the District Capital of Lawngtlai District. Lawngtlai District has a population of 75,477 persons according to Mizoram Statistical Handbook 2003. The other two Autonomous District Councils in Mizoram are Mara Autonomous District Council (MADC) to the south and Chakma Autonomous District Council to the west.Thus the three ADCs filled one third of Mizoram in the Southern part of the state.

The Lai Autonomous District Council occupies a strategic position in Mizoram, located in the Southern most corner of the state. It shares its political border with the erstwhile Burma (Myanmar) and MADC, the west by CADC, in the north Lunglei Administrative District and in the south by Myanmar. The Lai Autonomous District Council covers an area of 1870.75 sq. km with a population of 73,620 as on April 2008 and its density is 39 persons per sq. km. The whole/entire population belonged to Schedule Tribes.