{"id":181075,"date":"2022-01-05T01:58:45","date_gmt":"2022-01-04T20:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=181075"},"modified":"2022-01-05T01:58:45","modified_gmt":"2022-01-04T20:28:45","slug":"resolution-of-boundary-rows-with-meghalaya-arunachal-expected-this-year-assam-cm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2022\/01\/05\/resolution-of-boundary-rows-with-meghalaya-arunachal-expected-this-year-assam-cm\/","title":{"rendered":"Resolution of boundary rows with Meghalaya, Arunachal expected this year: Assam CM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>DULIAJAN, 4 Jan:<\/strong> Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Tuesday said he is hopeful for &#8220;some resolution&#8221; of the longstanding boundary disputes with Arunachal Pradesh and Meghalaya this year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, it will take more time to settle the boundary rows with Nagaland and Mizoram, he said while addressing a press conference here in Dibrugarh district at the end of a two-day conference of superintendents of police.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Regarding the disputes with Arunachal, Sarma said that it will be pursued once the settlement with Meghalaya is done.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The disputes with Meghalaya are very small, except for in a couple of areas. The disputes are mostly on paper and there is no question of anyone influencing the boundary residents to choose sides without their own will,&#8221; Sarma said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said that the disputes with Arunachal were &#8220;almost resolved&#8221; in 1987, but some technical issues kept the final settlement pending.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;We are hopeful of resolving the disputes with Meghalaya and Arunachal Pradesh by this year,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Assam and Arunachal share an 804.1-km boundary and there are 1,200 points of dispute. (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DULIAJAN, 4 Jan: Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Tuesday said he is hopeful for &#8220;some resolution&#8221; of the longstanding boundary disputes with Arunachal Pradesh and Meghalaya this year. However, it will take more time to settle the boundary rows with Nagaland and Mizoram, he said while addressing a press conference here in Dibrugarh [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-181075","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181075\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}