Hamanta, Zormathanga to meet in Delhi on Assam-Mizoram dispute

Aizawl: Mizoram Chief Minister Hamanta Zormathanga, now in New Delhi, and his Assam counterpart Himanta Biswa Sarma will hold second round of talks in the national capital to seek a peaceful resolution of the long-standing inter-state border dispute between the two neighboring northeastern regions. can be found. States, an official said on Friday.
The Chief Ministers of the two states will meet in New Delhi on September 19 after Sarma returns from Assam, said a CMO official accompanying Hamanta Zormathanga in New Delhi. He said that the venue of the proposed talks is yet to be decided and it is not known whether the talks will be chaired by Union Home Minister Amit Shah or not.
“The two chief ministers spoke on phone on Friday and decided to meet on September 19 in New Delhi on the border issue,” the official said.
The Chief Ministers of the two states, in a telephonic conversation on August 10, had decided to hold talks in late August or early September to find a peaceful solution to the contentious inter-state border dispute.
The Chief Ministers of the two neighboring states met in Delhi in November last year in the presence of Union Home Minister Amit Shah on the border issue and agreed to form their respective panels comprising all stakeholders to resolve the border dispute through dialogue. what was

For this purpose, the two leaders also agreed to hold talks at the Chief Minister level from time to time.
Three districts of Mizoram – Aizawl, Kolasib and Mamit – share a 164.6 km border with three districts of Assam – Cachar, Hailakandi and Hailakandi. The border dispute between the two states, stemming from two colonial demarcations of 1875 and 1933, is complex and long-standing.
Mizoram maintains that the 509 square miles of reserved forest of the Inner Line notified in 1875 under the Bengal Eastern Frontier Regulation (BEFR) 1873, a certain portion of which now falls under Assam, is the original boundary of the state.
Assam, on the other hand, claims that the border as per the Survey of India map of 1933 is the constitutional boundary of the state. Some areas, now occupied by Mizoram, come under the 1933 delimitation.
The border dispute between Mizoram and Assam took an ugly turn on July 26 last year when the police forces of the two states attacked each other and opened fire, killing seven people, including six Assamese policemen. Around 60 were injured.