AIZAWL, 9 Feb: Mizoram and Assam on Friday agreed to make joint efforts to resolve the long pending interstate border dispute, an official statement said here.
\nAssam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Friday morning invited his Mizoram counterpart Lalduhoma, who is currently in Guwahati, over a meal, and both leaders discussed the border issue.
\nDuring the meeting, Lalduhoma and Sarma agreed to make collective efforts to resolve the border dispute between the two states, it said.
\nBoth leaders also agreed to maintain peace along the borders as long as the two neighbouring states hold border talks, it said.
\nSarma told Lalduhoma that he will send the minister in charge of border to Mizoram when the ongoing budget session of the Assam assembly is over.
\nThree Mizoram districts – Aizawl, Kolasib and Mamit – share a 164.6 km long border with Assam’s Cachar, Karmganj and Hailankandi districts.
\nThe border dispute between the two neighbouring states is a longstanding issue, which mainly stemmed from two colonial demarcations.
\nMizoram claims that 509 square miles area of the inner line reserved forest, notified in 1875 under the Bengal Eastern Frontier Regulation, 1873, falls within its territory. Assam, on the other hand, regards the border shown in a map prepared by the Survey of India in 1933 as its constitutional boundary.
\nVast areas within the inner line reserved forest now fall under Assam. Similarly, a certain extent of the area, as per the 1933 demarcation, is now on the Mizoram side. There is no ground demarcation of boundaries between the two states.
\nThe border dispute between Mizoram and Assam had taken an ugly turn in July 2021, when police forces of the two states exchanged fire at the interstate boundary, leading to the death of six policemen and a civilian from Assam. (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
AIZAWL, 9 Feb: Mizoram and Assam on Friday agreed to make joint efforts to resolve the long pending interstate border dispute, an official statement said here. Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Friday morning invited his Mizoram counterpart Lalduhoma, who is currently in Guwahati, over a meal, and both leaders discussed the border issue. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-234441","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-north-east"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234441","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=234441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}