Border row: Assam-Meghalaya meet on Aug 26

Shillong: The regional committees of Assam and Meghalaya will meet here on August 26 ahead of their joint visit to disputed Langpih along the interstate border, Meghalaya social welfare minister Paul Lyngdoh said on Monday. “Both the committees will be meeting here on Saturday as we prepare to go to ground zero and meet the people in the area,” Lyngdoh said.In the last meeting in Guwahati, the regional committees of the two states had jointly agreed to visit Langpih in Meghalaya’s West Khasi Hills district to meet stakeholders, local representatives and residents before finalising the interstate border. Lyngdoh heads one of the three regional committees from Meghalaya. Both Meghalaya and Assam lay claims to the Langpih area and four people were shot dead there in 2010 at the height of the interstate dispute in the area. PTI