Northeastern States' Boundary Squabbles To Be Resolved

SoI director S.K. Singh told the officials of Mizoram and Tripura that they would again meet after a few months and, if necessary, a joint visit would be conducted in the disputed site.

Tripura shares 109 km borders with Mizoram and 53 km borders with Assam.

Mizoram Chief Minister Lal Thanhawla has also sought union Home Minister Rajnath Singh's intervention to resolve the Assam-Mizoram boundary dispute.

"The chief minister recently (June 28) met the union home minister in New Delhi and requested him to intervene in the long pending boundary dispute with Assam," said an official of the Mizoram government, speaking on condition of anonymity.

He told IANS: "Rajnath Singh (who was president of the Bharatiya Janata Party during an election campaign before the 2013 assembly poll in Mizoram) said the border dispute would be resolved if the BJP came to power at the Centre."

Occasionally, the border disputes between northern Mizoram and southern Assam have flared up among the people of the two northeastern states, forcing the authorities and security forces to intervene.

Southern Assam's Karimganj, Cachar and Hailakandi districts share their border with Kolosib district of northwestern Mizoram.

Mizoram, which also shares border with Myanmar (404 km) and Bangladesh (318 km), was one of the districts of Assam till 1973 when the mountainous state became a union territory.

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