Overview

• Senior delegations met at Uriamghat and agreed to keep the present ground situation unchanged, including removal of recently erected fencing and pillars.
• Assam’s forest minister said eviction drives would continue where not restrained, as the Gauhati High Court has stayed a planned second phase set for August 24.
• The planned plantation event was called off, with both sides saying any drive will start after their chief ministers confer.
• Earlier operations in the Rengma area deployed large security contingents and cleared about 11,000 bighas, with authorities reporting demolition of more than 2,600 houses.
• Naga civil-society groups opposed Assam’s actions as an attempt to alter the boundary and pressed Nagaland to respond, while both governments highlighted coordinated conservation in the Disputed Area Belt.