States sign pact to resolve Assam-Arunachal Pradesh border dispute

• The boundary line shown on 29 topo-sheets by a high-powered committee in 1960 will be taken as the basis for the realignment of the Arunachal Pradesh-Assam boundary towards resolving decades of dispute.

Border Dispute between Assam and Arunachal Pradesh:

• Arunachal Pradesh: Never accepted the “constitutional boundary” as the tribal stakeholders weren’t consulted.
• Assam: Maintains the 1951 demarcation as constitutional and legal.

Namsai Declaration

• Signed by: Assam and Arunachal Pradesh
• Aim: Minimising the inter-State boundary dispute involving 123 villages.
• Objective: All border issues between the two will be confined to those raised before the local commission in 2007.

Prelims Take Away

• Namsai Declaration
• State Reorganisation After Independence