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Second round CM level talks between Meghalaya & Assam on Friday

Second round CM level talks between Meghalaya & Assam on Friday
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Shillong, Aug 5 (UNI) Meghalaya and Assam would be holding the second Chief Ministerial level talk
on the inter-state boundary dispute on Friday in Guwahati.
Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad Sangma will be accompanied by Deputy Chief Minister Prestone Tynsong, some cabinet ministers and top government officials.
Friday’s meeting between Meghalaya and Assam is significant following the recent border
skirmishes at Iongkhuli village after Assam police uprooted electric poles erected by Meghalaya
Energy Corporation Limited (MeECL) in the village, which Assam claimed that the area falls under Assam’s territory.
The first round of the Chief Ministerial level talks between Sangma and his Assam counterpart Himanta Biswa Sarma was in Shillong on July 23, and resolved to move “beyond status quo to
solution” in regard to the long pending boundary dispute between the two neighbouring states.
Immediately after the first round of Chief Ministerial meeting, the Meghalaya government formed
a state level committee on the dispute headed by Deputy Chief Minister Prestone Tynsong.
Further under this state level committee, three district level committees for Jaintia Hills district,
West Khasi Hills district and Ri-Bhoi district were formed.
The Jaintia Hills committee was headed by Transport Minister Sniawbhalang Dhar, the Ri-Bhoi committee was headed by Home Minister Lahkmen Rymbui and the West Khasi Hills committee
was headed by PHE Minister, Renikton Lyngdoh Tongkhar.
These committees surveyed the disputed areas in their respective districts and spoke to the people residing in those areas to get their views. These committees have submitted their report to the State level Committee.
The heads of these committees would also accompany the CM together with the Chief Secretary, Director General of Police, Deputy Commissioners and other senior officials for the second meeting
at Guwahati.
Meghalaya’s Leader of Opposition Dr. Mukul Sangma has asserted that the upcoming Meghalaya-Assam talks on resolving the vexed boundary issue should be based on the
documentations prepared by the State government on the 12 areas of difference which
substantiate the claims that these places belong to Meghalaya.
In the past, Meghalaya had submitted documents and maps on its claims to the 12 sectors/areas
of Upper Tarabari, Gizang Reserve Forest, Hahim, Langpih, Borduar, Boklapara, Nongwah-Matamur, Khanapara- Pillangkata, Deshdemoreah, Block I and Block II, Khanduli-Psiar and Ratacherra.
The total area of difference is 2,765.14 square km, of which Blocks I and II cover 1,583.42 square
km.
The Meghalaya Assembly had in March 2011 passed a resolution to urge the central government
to constitute a Boundary Commission to re-examine and redefine the inter-state boundary between
the two states.
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