82,751 hectares of Assam land under occupation of neighbouring states

Staff Reporter

GUWAHATI: Even as the state government is resolving boundary disputes with the neighbouring states, around 82,751 hectares of Assam lands are under the occupation of its neighbouring states.

Border Security and Development Minister Atul Bora said that Assam lands remaining under the occupation of the neighbouring states are not new. “Had the governments demarcated the borders of the neighbouring states when they were carved out from Assam, this problem wouldn’t have arisen,” he said, adding, “The process of settling border disputes with the neighbouring states has picked up pace after Chief Minister Dr. Himanta Biswa Sarma came at the helm of affairs. We have already signed agreements in some stretches with Arunachal Pradesh and Meghalaya. Talks are going on with Nagaland and Mizoram.”

At present, 16,144 hectares of Assam land are under the occupation of Arunachal Pradesh, 59,490 hectares with Nagaland, 3441 hectares with Meghalaya, and 3675 hectares with Mizoram.

Bora said that the Survey of India has been surveying the interstate borders based on the agreements that Assam signed with Meghalaya and Arunachal Pradesh. “The disputes over 71 of the 123 villages that Arunachal Pradesh claims as theirs have been settled. Despite a case relating to border disputes between Assam and Nagaland pending in the Supreme Court of India, the chief ministers of the two states have been trying to solve the disputes out of the court,” he said.

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