<p>Aizawl: Officials of Mizoram and Assam will meet on April 25 to discuss the long-standing boundary dispute between the two northeastern states, a minister said on Monday.</p><p>Mizoram Home minister K Sapdanga told PTI that the proposed official-level talks will be held in Guwahati and Mizoram is yet to finalise the names of members of the state delegation.</p><p>He said that the next round of ministerial-level talks will be decided later based on the outcome of the official-level talks.</p>.Assam man kills wife in Mizoram after ‘she elopes with lover’.<p>Mizoram officials said that the state delegation is likely to be headed by Home secretary Vanlalmawia.</p><p>The Assam government had earlier proposed to hold official-level talks in the third week of March, which the Mizoram government had declined due to the assembly session and visit of Union Home Minister Amit Shah.</p><p>Three Mizoram districts - Aizawl, Kolasib and Mamit share a 164.6 km long border with Assam's Cachar, Karimganj and Hailakandi districts.</p><p>The decades-old border dispute mainly stemmed from two conflicting colonial-era demarcations - one from 1875 under the Bengal Eastern Frontier Regulation (BEFR) and another from 1933.</p><p>Mizoram claims that 509 square miles of the Inner Line Reserved Forest (ILRF) delineated in 1875 under the BEFR as its legitimate area or boundary.</p><p>In contrast, Assam asserts the border defined by a 1933 map prepared by the Survey of India in 1933 as its constitutional boundary.</p><p>As a result, both states lay claim to overlapping areas, with no ground demarcation conducted till date.</p><p>The dispute escalated into violence on several occasions and on July 26, 2021, near Mizoram's Vairengte village, a clash between police forces of both states resulted in seven fatalities and numerous injuries.</p><p>Since August 2021, both states have held four rounds of ministerial-level talks, besides negotiations and virtual meetings at official and border district administration levels to resolve the decades-old border dispute.</p><p>In the last talks held in Aizawl on August 9 last year, which was attended by K Sapdanga and Assam's Border Protection and Development Minister Atul Bora, both the delegations agreed to continue to observe conditions agreed in the previous parleys, including maintaining peace along the inter-state border.</p>
<p>Aizawl: Officials of Mizoram and Assam will meet on April 25 to discuss the long-standing boundary dispute between the two northeastern states, a minister said on Monday.</p><p>Mizoram Home minister K Sapdanga told PTI that the proposed official-level talks will be held in Guwahati and Mizoram is yet to finalise the names of members of the state delegation.</p><p>He said that the next round of ministerial-level talks will be decided later based on the outcome of the official-level talks.</p>.Assam man kills wife in Mizoram after ‘she elopes with lover’.<p>Mizoram officials said that the state delegation is likely to be headed by Home secretary Vanlalmawia.</p><p>The Assam government had earlier proposed to hold official-level talks in the third week of March, which the Mizoram government had declined due to the assembly session and visit of Union Home Minister Amit Shah.</p><p>Three Mizoram districts - Aizawl, Kolasib and Mamit share a 164.6 km long border with Assam's Cachar, Karimganj and Hailakandi districts.</p><p>The decades-old border dispute mainly stemmed from two conflicting colonial-era demarcations - one from 1875 under the Bengal Eastern Frontier Regulation (BEFR) and another from 1933.</p><p>Mizoram claims that 509 square miles of the Inner Line Reserved Forest (ILRF) delineated in 1875 under the BEFR as its legitimate area or boundary.</p><p>In contrast, Assam asserts the border defined by a 1933 map prepared by the Survey of India in 1933 as its constitutional boundary.</p><p>As a result, both states lay claim to overlapping areas, with no ground demarcation conducted till date.</p><p>The dispute escalated into violence on several occasions and on July 26, 2021, near Mizoram's Vairengte village, a clash between police forces of both states resulted in seven fatalities and numerous injuries.</p><p>Since August 2021, both states have held four rounds of ministerial-level talks, besides negotiations and virtual meetings at official and border district administration levels to resolve the decades-old border dispute.</p><p>In the last talks held in Aizawl on August 9 last year, which was attended by K Sapdanga and Assam's Border Protection and Development Minister Atul Bora, both the delegations agreed to continue to observe conditions agreed in the previous parleys, including maintaining peace along the inter-state border.</p>