Assam, Meghalaya To Work For Resolving State Border Disputes In 12 Areas

Seven districts of Assam including Kamrup Metro shares border with northern and western Meghalaya, among which major disputes regarding the boundaries exist in at least 12 points

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and his Meghalaya counterpart Conrad K Sangma have decided of moving from maintaining status quo to finding a solution to the inter-state border dispute in the first meeting on the issue at Meghalaya's capital Shillong on Friday. "We have come to a common understanding that we need to travel from status quo. Often after such inter-state border dispute meetings, the outcome used to be maintaining status quo. This time, I would like to tell the people of both the states that we are firm and committed to resolving this dispute," Mr Sarma told reporters in a joint press briefing with Mr Sangma in Shillong. Reciprocating, Mr Sangma said, "As mentioned by the Chief Minister of Assam, the discussion was very positive and we have decided that no longer will we look at status quo as the outcome of the meeting. But we will try to change from the status quo and find a solution to this very long pending issue. As I've been mentioning many times in the past, it's not really simple." Seven districts of Assam including Kamrup Metro shares border with northern and western Meghalaya, among which major disputes regarding the boundaries exist in at least 12 points, acknowledged both the Chief Ministers.