Assam-Meghalaya resolve border dispute in 6 places; Shah phrases it ‘historic day’ for Northeast

By PTI

NEW DELHI: Assam and Meghalaya on Tuesday signed an settlement to resolve their five-decade-old border dispute in six of the 12 places, with Union Home Minister Amit Shah calling it a “historic day” for the Northeast.

The settlement was signed within the presence of Shah and Chief Ministers of Assam and Meghalaya Himanta Biswa Sarma and Conrad Sangma respectively.

The pact will resolve the protracted dispute in six of the 12 locations alongside the 884.9 km border between the 2 states. “It is a historic day for the Northeast,” Shah mentioned on the operate held on the Ministry of Home Affairs right here.

The residence minister mentioned with the signing of the settlement, 70 per cent of the border dispute between the 2 states has been resolved.

There are 36 villages within the six locations, overlaying an space of 36.79 sq km, with regard to which the settlement has been reached. The two states had fashioned three committees every in August final 12 months to enter the vexed boundary query.

The structure of the panels had adopted two rounds of talks between Sarma and Sangma the place the neighbouring states resolved to settle the dispute in a phased method.

According to the joint closing set of suggestions made by the committees, out of 36.79 sq km disputed space taken up for settlement within the first section, Assam will get full management of 18.51 sq km and Meghalaya 18.28 sq km.

Out of the 12 factors of dispute between Assam and Meghalaya, the six areas with comparatively much less crucial variations had been taken up within the first section.

The boundary dispute between Assam and Meghalaya has lingered for 50 years. However, the hassle to resolve it gained tempo in current instances.

Meghalaya was carved out of Assam as a separate state in 1972 however the brand new state had challenged the Assam Reorganisation Act, 1971, resulting in dispute in 12 places within the border areas.