Assam-Mizoram Assent to Agricultural Activity Across Borderlines to Keep Amiable Relation

Guwahati: India's Northeastern states Assam and Mizoram acceded to permitting agricultural peasants to work on both sides of the states' territory.

The resolution was made at a conference held on Wednesday among the district administrations representing the borders of five districts, three located in Assam and the other two in Mizoram, and the security forces at a camp of Central Reserve Police Force (CPRF) on the dividing line between Assam and Mizoram to discuss the issues pertaining to the border.

In the meeting, Assam and Mizoram resolved to agree to construct collaborative endeavours to safeguard the forest areas along the dividing lines, restricting illegal transportation as well as hunting of animals in addition to preventing the selling of areca nuts, which are grown in Mizoram, in the neighbouring states.

This meeting was the upshot of the decision taken by both the state ministers at a previous conference held on August 9 this year. Both the states concluded to maintain pleasant relations across the inter-state border.

The border dispute between the two states has been a constant long-lasting issue rooted in two colonial distinctions in 1875 and 1933.

Earlier on August 23, Cabinet Ministers of Assam and Arunachal Pradesh conducted panels to resolve the boundary issues between the two states. The committees attempted to maintain cordial relations by visiting the border sites a few days after the Chief Ministers of both the states signed a statement for structuring 12 advisory juries for the purpose. This visit will keep proceeding till August 31 followed by their submission of the reports by September 15. Arunachal Deputy Chief Minister Chowna Mein and the Minister for Agriculture and Veterinary in Assam's Cabinet Atul Bora headed the panel.

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