{"id":200705,"date":"2022-09-16T02:24:43","date_gmt":"2022-09-15T20:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=200705"},"modified":"2022-09-16T02:25:00","modified_gmt":"2022-09-15T20:55:00","slug":"shah-urges-assam-arunachal-to-resolve-boundary-dispute-at-earliest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2022\/09\/16\/shah-urges-assam-arunachal-to-resolve-boundary-dispute-at-earliest\/","title":{"rendered":"Shah urges Assam, Arunachal to  resolve boundary dispute at earliest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>NEW DELHI, 15 Sep:<\/strong> Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday appealed to Assam and Arunachal Pradesh governments to resolve their boundary dispute at the earliest in order to fulfil Prime Minister Narendra Modi&#8217;s vision of a peaceful and prosperous Northeast.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Shah said this here while chairing a meeting of the chief ministers of Assam and Arunachal &#8211; Himanta Biswa Sarma and Pema Khandu &#8211; to resolve the boundary issues of the two states.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The home minister assured both the chief ministers of maximum possible assistance from the central government in this regard.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Shah urged both the chief ministers to resolve the boundary dispute at the earliest in order to fulfil the vision of the prime minister of a peaceful and prosperous Northeast, sources said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As many as 12 panels were formed by the governments of Assam and Arunachal, following discussions between the two chief ministers on 15 July.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The two states, as per the declaration, decided to restrict the number of &#8216;disputed villages&#8217; to 86, instead of the previous 123, and agreed to make attempts to resolve all issues by 15 September.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Assam and Arunachal share an 804.1-km-long border.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Arunachal, which was made a union territory in 1972, had complained that several forested tracts in the plains that traditionally belonged to hill tribal chiefs and communities were unilaterally transferred to Assam.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">After Arunachal achieved statehood in 1987, a tripartite committee was appointed, which recommended that certain territories be transferred from Assam to Arunachal. Assam contested this claim and the matter is in the Supreme Court. (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI, 15 Sep: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday appealed to Assam and Arunachal Pradesh governments to resolve their boundary dispute at the earliest in order to fulfil Prime Minister Narendra Modi&#8217;s vision of a peaceful and prosperous Northeast. Shah said this here while chairing a meeting of the chief ministers of Assam [&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-200705","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\/200705","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=200705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}