Summary:
Shillong, Mar 14 (PTI) Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma on Monday said Assam and Meghalaya would sign a boundary resolving the six areas of difference between Assam and Meghalaya in New Delhi on March 27.
The chief minister indicated there would be a final round of discussion with the central Ministry of Home Affairs before the actual accord is signed.
“The signing of this agreement and the final discussion with the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) will take place within this month itself.
The tentative date which has come to me is March 27,” Sangma said while replying to the budget discussion in the Assembly.
“Therefore, all cabinet colleagues and officials involved in this will be going to Delhi to mark this very important occasion and I am hopeful March 27 will be a historic day where we will be able to come to a final conclusion and sign the agreement on the six locations,” he added.
The Memorandum of Understanding was signed by the Chief Ministers of Assam and Meghalaya on January 29 and was submitted to the Union Home Minister Amit Shah on January 31, for examination and consideration by the MHA.