Won't accept 1972 demarcation by Assam: Meghalaya

Shillong, June 21 (PTI) The Meghalaya government today said it would not accept the 1972 demarcation done by Assam wherein a number of areas were included in the then Mikir Hills district, further intensifying the boundary dispute between the two states.

"The block-I and block-II areas were included in the Mikir Hills (now Karbi Anglong). The survey was done unilaterally by Assam. We cannot accept that," state Home Minister H D R Lyngdoh told reporters here.

He said once the areas of differences are resolved, Meghalaya will demand re-transfer of these areas to the state.

According to the demarcation done by Assam in 1951, many of the disputed areas like Psiar and Khatkasla in the borders of Meghalaya's Jaintia Hills and Assam's Karbi Anglong district were in Meghalaya, Lyngdoh said.