States »EasPosted at: Jul 3 2021 6:12PM CS level talks b/w Assam-Mizoram to defuse border row
Guwahati, Jul 3 (UNI) Chief secretary level talks will be held on July 9 to defuse the tension along Assam-Mizoram border.
Kolasib district Deputy Commissioner H Lalthlangliana said that chief secretaries of both states will have bilateral talks over the inter-state border following the fresh tension that erupted on Tuesday at Aitlang hnar area, near Vairengte in Kolasib district which borders Assam’s Hailakandi district.
The chief secretary-level meet will be held in Delhi on July 9, he said.
Both the state forces are still camping at the disputed area on either side of the border.
Mizoram shares about 164.6 km long inter-state border with Assam.
Mizoram was part of Assam until 1972, when it was carved out as a Union Territory.
Mizoram became the 23rd state of India on 20 February 1987 following the historic Mizoram accord between the erstwhile underground Mizo National Front (MNF) and the Centre, which ended 20 years insurgency in the state.
The border dispute between the two neighbouring states is a long-standing issue that persisted for decades.
Several dialogues involving the Centre held since 1995 to resolve the dispute yielded little result.
After a massive tussle in 2018, the border row resurfaced in August last year and then in February this year. However, the escalating tensions were successfully defused after a series of parleys with the intervention of the Centre.
Earlier on June 5, two abandoned houses along the Mizoram-Assam border were burned down by unidentified persons, fuelling tension along the volatile inter-state border.
Two makeshift camps erected by Mizoram police on the disputed area were allegedly damaged by Assam police during a confrontation on Wednesday.
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