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Assam and Meghalaya Install First Boundary Pillars in Hahim Sector

Survey teams have begun placing concrete markers along Gijang-Tirchang riverbanks to implement the 2022 MoU’s first-phase settlements

Assam-Meghalaya border
After decades of deadlock, a breakthrough came in March 2022, when Assam and Meghalaya signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in New Delhi. (HT Photo)
Assam and Meghalaya continue their border resolution efforts, with building of boundary pillars in Hahim

Overview

  • On July 1, joint survey teams from Assam and Meghalaya commenced erecting boundary pillars in Hahim under the six-sector agreement reached in March 2022
  • Concrete markers are being placed along the banks of the Gijang and Tirchang rivers, crossing villages from Umshek through Thutia Bazaar to Rangsapara
  • The pillar-installation drive follows the March 29, 2022 Memorandum of Understanding signed in New Delhi in the presence of Union Home Minister Amit Shah
  • Chief Ministers Himanta Biswa Sarma and Conrad K. Sangma reaffirmed on June 2 their pledge to complete pillar erections ahead of India’s Independence Day
  • Six other disputed sectors—Block I, Block II, Langpih, Deshdoomreah, Khanduli and Nongwah-Mawtamur—remain unresolved and vulnerable to tensions