{"id":189317,"date":"2022-04-21T02:42:56","date_gmt":"2022-04-20T21:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=189317"},"modified":"2022-04-21T02:42:56","modified_gmt":"2022-04-20T21:12:56","slug":"assam-arunachal-to-form-district-level-committees-to-resolve-inter-state-boundary-disputes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2022\/04\/21\/assam-arunachal-to-form-district-level-committees-to-resolve-inter-state-boundary-disputes\/","title":{"rendered":"Assam-Arunachal to form district-level committees to resolve inter-state boundary disputes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>GUWAHATI, 20 Apr:<\/strong> Chief ministers Himanta Biswa Sarma and Pema Khandu met on Wednesday, and announced that the two Northeastern states will form district-level committees to resolve the longstanding border disputes in a time-bound manner.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This was the second chief ministerial-level meeting between the two states over the boundary issue, Sarma said in a series of tweets.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;We decided to form district-level committees in both the states to resolve the issue in a time-bound manner,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The district committees will undertake joint surveys in the disputed areas to find tangible solutions to the long-pending issue based on historical perspective, ethnicity, contiguity, people&#8217;s will and administrative convenience of both the states,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The terms of reference of the committees were also finalized in the meeting, Sarma said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Assam border area development minister Atul Bora and chief secretaries and senior officials of both the states were present in the meeting.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Assam and Arunachal Pradesh share an 804.1-km-long border and there are 1,200 points of dispute along it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Arunachal Pradesh was a centrally-administered region initially after independence and became a Union Territory later, before attaining full statehood in 1987.\u00a0 PTI<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GUWAHATI, 20 Apr: Chief ministers Himanta Biswa Sarma and Pema Khandu met on Wednesday, and announced that the two Northeastern states will form district-level committees to resolve the longstanding border disputes in a time-bound manner. This was the second chief ministerial-level meeting between the two states over the boundary issue, Sarma said in a series [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189322,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-189317","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189317","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=189317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}