A joint meeting of the regional committees from Meghalaya and Assam will be held next month, to discuss and find a solution to resolve the boundary dispute in regards to the areas of difference under Ri Bhoi District.
Addressing media persons, deputy chief minister Prestone Tynsong said that the regional committees of both the states will have a joint meeting in the month of July.
“We will fix a joint meeting with the regional committee from our counterpart Assam and thereafter once the joint meeting is held then we will again go to the spot jointly and then take a final call on this issue,” he said.
He said as far as Ri Bhoi district is concerned, there are four sectors, Borduar, Nongwah-Mawtamur, Deshdoomreah, Block-II where the two regional committees need to sit down and discuss and then take decision on whatever is necessary to be done.
Tynsong said, “People’s willingness is also part of the guidelines of this committee. Therefore, guidelines are in place since last phase so even this second phase the same criteria is adopted.”
He said that the government has all documents to substantiate its claim over the four sectors.
“That is why we will sit down without counterpart and discuss across the table and we will go down to the village level and take a final decision on that,” he said
The deputy chief minister said if you talk about Block I and Block II, it is a question of retransferring but some people misunderstand this.
“When you talk about Block-I and Block-II please understand that the question of differences does not arise, the question of dispute does not arise, it is purely the question of retransferring back those Block-I and Block-II on the basis of the notification 1951, we placed before the government of Assam to kindly retransfer it to us in those areas where the population is maximum with our own people,” he said.