By IANS,
Shillong: The Meghalaya assembly Wednesday adopted a resolution urging the central government to form a commission to re-define the boundary between Meghalaya and Assam.
Revenue Minister R.C. Laloo, who moved the resolution, said a series of meetings between the two states at the political and administrative levels had not led to a long-term solution.
Meghalaya became an autonomous state in 1971 and a full-fledged one Jan 21, 1972.
Since then, the inter-state boundary has been a point of dispute between Meghalaya and Assam.
“The issue has caused immense hardship and economic dislocation to the people living in the border areas including loss of life (and) resulting in deterioration of inter-community relations between the people on the border,” the resolution said.
Last year, both Assam and Meghalaya constituted a Joint Committee to be headed by the chief secretaries to formulate modalities for resolving the vexed dispute.