Mizoram and Assam to Resume Border Talks After 20-Month Hiatus

Mizoram and Assam will resume border talks on August 9, twenty months after their last discussions. Mizoram Home Minister K Sapdanga and Assam's Border Protection Minister Atul Bora will lead the delegations. Previous discussions failed due to logistical delays and ongoing boundary disputes stemming from colonial demarcations.

Mizoram and Assam are set to restart their border discussions on August 9, twenty months after their last dialogue aimed at resolving the inter-state boundary dispute.

Mizoram Home Minister K Sapdanga announced on Monday that the talks will be hosted in Aizawl, with delegates led by himself and Assam's Border Protection and Development Minister Atul Bora.

The talks, which were last held in November 2022 in Guwahati, have faced several delays due to logistical challenges, including the 2023 Lok Sabha elections. Sapdanga is optimistic about reaching an amicable solution to a decades-old dispute arising from colonial-era boundary demarcations of 1875 and 1933.

(With inputs from agencies.)