Through PTI
NEW DELHI: Assam and Meghalaya on Tuesday signed an settlement to get to the bottom of their five-decade-old border dispute in six of the 12 places, with Union House Minister Amit Shah calling it a “historical day” for the Northeast.
The settlement used to be signed within the presence of Shah and Leader Ministers of Assam and Meghalaya Himanta Biswa Sarma and Conrad Sangma respectively.
The pact will get to the bottom of the protracted dispute in six of the 12 puts alongside the 884.9 km border between the 2 states. “This can be a historical day for the Northeast,” Shah mentioned on the serve as held on the Ministry of House Affairs right here.
The house minister mentioned with the signing of the settlement, 70 consistent with cent of the border dispute between the 2 states has been resolved.
There are 36 villages within the six puts, overlaying a space of 36.79 sq km, in regards to which the settlement has been reached. The 2 states had shaped 3 committees every in August closing 12 months to enter the vexed boundary query.
The charter 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 approach.
Consistent with the joint ultimate set of suggestions made via the committees, out of 36.79 sq km disputed house taken up for agreement within the first section, Assam gets complete keep an eye on of 18.51 sq km and Meghalaya 18.28 sq km.
Out of the 12 issues of dispute between Assam and Meghalaya, the six spaces with rather much less essential variations had been taken up within the first section.
The boundary dispute between Assam and Meghalaya has lingered for fifty years. On the other hand, the hassle to get to the bottom of it won tempo lately.
Meghalaya used to be 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 spaces.