Assam, Arunachal Pradesh resolve 50-year-old border row: All you need to know
Times of India | 21 April 2023
Guwahati: Assam and Arunachal Pradesh on Thursday signed an agreement in the presence of Union home minister Amit Shah in New Delhi to settle the nearly half-a-century dispute over the 800-km long border between the two states.
The two states have also agreed that there will not be any further claims of new areas by any side and both governments will effectively prevent any new encroachment on border areas. The final boundary demarcation will be done by the Survey of India based on the MoU.
Assam’s inter-state border conflicts with its four neighbours — Nagaland, Meghalaya, Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh — all of which have been carved out of Assam post-Independence, have often resulted into clashes between police forces of the states leading to loss of lives. Following a call by Shah to the chief ministers of Assam and its four neighbours at a conference in Meghalaya in 2021, the first breakthrough was made last year in March when Assam and Meghalaya signed the first MoU settling 60% of the dispute between them.
Speaking at the MoU-signing function on Thursday, Shah said, “Today we all have witnessed a historic moment in the northeast when the border dispute between Assam and Arunachal Pradesh, pending since decades, has been resolved.”