From Our Special Correspondent
New Delhi: Former Union Minister of State and Congress MP from Shillong, Vincent H Pala, on Thursday raised the matter of the inter-state border dispute between Meghalaya and Assam in the Parliament and demanded that the Centre should constitute a Parliamentary Committee or a Ministerial Committee of Experts and a Boundary Commission to solve the vexed issues.
Raising the issue under Rule 377, Pala demanded that such issues should be resolved in a time bound manner.
The Meghalaya-Assam border row was there even during the time of composite Assam with a dispute on the inter-district boundary in the then United Khasi-Jaintia Hills and the Kamrup District. Since all other North Eastern states were either carved out of undivided Assam or have common boundaries, land disputes are commonplace.
The Meghalaya Assembly had also unanimously resolved to ask the Centre to constitute a Boundary Commission to look into the ‘disputed’ borders between Meghalaya and Assam for a mutual settlement but the Assam Government had already rejected the same, Pala said.
“The more than half-century-old boundary dispute is now in the Centre’s court and the Union Government should act on it,” Pala added.
