Shillong, June 9: Chief Minister Conrad Sangma has said the state government is not abandoning the border talks with Assam for resolving the remaining six areas of difference.
“We have not abandoned it but there are lots of issues and concerns going on and a lot of homework has to be done again further in this entire thing as for 50 years in fact no initiative was taken so finally the MDA government has taken the initiative,” Sangma told reporters on Thursday.
Earlier, an MoU was signed for resolving the first six areas of difference in presence of Union Home Minister Amit Shah in New Delhi on March 29.
Sangma added, “We have started doing our homework as it requires a lot of work to be done, lots of documentations, mapping, we cannot just look at the old maps because we realise in the last report that was submitted in 2011 there were lots of concerns and there were maps that were really some areas were not very clear so it requires a lot of drone mapping all these areas. so lots of preparation is going on and it is not very simple but for meeting’s sake we can always meet. It is not a problem at all but before we meet it is important we do our planning properly and we do our homework properly and prepare the documents – that is what we are doing from our side,” he said.
