YUPIA, Jan 16: The meeting was conducted under the initiative of the Papum Pare District Border People’s Forum Committee to interact with the newly posted circle officers of Gumto, Kakoi,Kimin and Tarasso and to apprise them of the issues related to the interstate border with Assam at Yupia on Monday.
Rome Mele, Assistant Director, Border Affairs presented a power point on the border issues and the regional committee reports.
Deputy Commissioner Papum Pare, Jiken Bomjen while addressing the Forum urged the participants to work in tandem with the Border Peace Committees constituted for the sub divisions, circles and villages for a coordinated border management. 
SP Taru Gusar while sharing his experiences on the border issues urged the members of the Forum to facilitate maintenance of peace and also maintain status quo on the Inter state border in view of the upcoming general elections.
“So far no fresh cases of encroachment has taken place,” the SP said while urging the Border Peace Committees to inform the administration if any such case comes to notice immediately. 
TT Topu, DFO, Banderdewa while participating in the discussions informed that ‘the interstate borders under his jurisdictions falls under the reserve forest area and that the Forest Department envisages protection of forest and wildlife and have accordingly increased patrolling in the area.’
Shaban Akin, President, Papum Pare District Border People’s Forum Committee also highlighted various border issues.
Informing about the recent incident wherein the Survey team from Assam visited Bogoli and collected soil samples, without the knowledge of the Papumpare district administration, he added that “ such incidents should not happen again.”
He also urged the administration to settle the boundary issues as soon as possible.
Further referring to the boundary meeting of 1979 wherein Assam and Arunachal Pradesh had agreed to share information on activities in and around the border areas with G.Borbora and P.K Thungon, the then Chief Ministers as signatories, Akin urged both the counterparts to abide by the agreement to maintain peace.
After detail discussion, the meeting resolved that both Assam and Arunachal Pradesh should maintain status quo and encourage the peace committee initiatives at the Block and Circle levels.

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Kenter Joya Riba

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