Assam, 10th November: Ending a 12-day long blockade of a national highway following a border row between the two states, trucks started transporting from Assam to Mizoram on Monday.
Circle Officer of Sonai in Cachar district of Assam, Sudeep Nath said that 21 trucks carrying vital goods and buses carrying passengers travelled from Lailapur on the border with police escort. He added that vacant trucks that were stuck on the Mizoram side because of the blockade also started getting into Assam from Monday.
The transportation of vehicles resumed after Union Home Secretary Ajay Kumar Bhalla brokered Chief Secretary-level talks between both states on Sunday to finish the impasse.
According to Nath, there has been no untoward incident along the 164-km long border between the 2 states since Saturday and also the situation is slowly returning to normalcy.
Residents on the Assam side had blocked the NH 306 resulting in Mizoram on October 28 seeking removal of Mizoram security forces from the border areas between the two states. Assam had claimed that Mizoram’s security personnel had encroached upon its territory and had even started construction whereas the latter maintained that its personnel was on its territory.
The residents of Lailapur decided to call off the blockade a day after Mizoram agreed to withdraw its forces from the border and deploy three companies of Border Security Force (BSF) on the controversial area.
Tensions between both states flared up last month when some huts on the border were allegedly burnt by miscreants. In the violence that followed many people from both sides were harmed.
