By means of PTI
SHILLONG: The Ministry for House Affairs (MHA) has mounted March 29 to finalise the border settlement signed between Assam and Meghalaya in January to settle the dispute in six of the 12 spaces of distinction, an professional stated on Friday.
Meghalaya Leader Minister Conrad Ok Sangma and his Assam counterpart Himanta Biswa Sarma, in conjunction with senior officers of the 2 North-eastern neighbours, had been requested to be within the nationwide capital for the assembly.
“We’ve got gained a proper verbal exchange from the MHA in regards to the assembly on finalising the border settlement on March 29 in New Delhi. The CMs and border committee officers of each states had been requested to be ready for the tripartite assembly,” an professional of the Meghalaya Leader Minister’s Workplace right here informed PTI.
The assembly was once previous scheduled to be hung on March 27 but it surely was once postponed by way of two days.
The executive ministers of Meghalaya and Assam signed a memorandum of working out at Guwahati on January 29 to unravel the boundary dispute in six places – Tarabari, Gizang, Hahim, Boklapara, Khanapara-Pillangkata and Ratacherra, within the first section. It was once then despatched to the MHA for exam.
Meghalaya was once carved out of Assam as a separate state in 1972 and it had challenged the Assam Reorganisation Act, 1971, resulting in disputes similar to twelve spaces in several portions of the shared 884.9 km lengthy border.
The boundary between the 2 states has witnessed flare-ups a number of occasions. In a single such incident in 2010, 4 individuals had been killed in police firing at Langpih, one of the crucial 12 spaces of distinction.
