24-04-2025
Mizoram officials in Guwahati for border talks with Assam
Aizawl: A seven-member
Mizoram delegation
team headed by home secretary Vanlalmawia left Aizawl and has reached Guwahati to participate in official-level talks on Friday as part of efforts to find a lasting solution to the border dispute between Mizoram and Assam, a senior official said.
Other members of the delegation include home department officials — additional secretary Andrew H Vanlaldika, joint secretary PC Lalduhthlanga and officer on special duty (OSD) home C Lalfakmawia — as well as three members of the study group on
Assam border dispute
— Joseph K Lalfakzuala (convener), assistant professor of T Romana college; Lalthiamsanga Sailo, DIG (armed) and member secretary of the study group and C Vanlalengkima, a scientist at the Mizoram Remote Sensing Application Centre and a member of the study group.
The official-level parleys, aimed at finding an amicable and permanent solution to the long-standing vexed interstate border imbroglio, have been pushed forward by the Mizoram home department officials.
The officials suggested that the minister-level talks proposed to be held in Guwahati should be preceded by negotiations between the officials of the two neighbouring states.
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"We have to settle all the issues which are remaining unsettled and the nitty-gritties of the modalities should be agreed upon during the official negotiations to ensure facilitation of decisions between the ministers of the two states during the proposed next round of negotiations," a senior state home department official told TOI.
The last and fourth round of minister-level negotiations on border dispute held on Aug 9 in Aizawl last year was between Mizoram delegation led by home minister K Sapdanga and Assam delegation headed by border protection and development minister Atul Bora.
Though sporadic incidents of violence related with the border dispute have occurred along the 123km stretch on several occasions earlier, attempts at solving the long-standing border had progressed at a snail's pace until July 26, 2021, when firing between two state police personnel resulted in the deaths of five Assam policemen.
Assam govt began to keep the ball rolling when Bora-led Assam team visited Mizoram in Aug that year as a peace mission delegation. Since then three rounds of negotiations have been held in Aizawl and one round in Guwahati while former CM Zoramthanga and his Assam counterpart Himanta Biswa Sarma also had held talks in New Delhi two times in the presence of Union home minister Amit Shah.
