By Tirtho Banerjee: Maharashtra and Karnataka have locked horns over the Belgaum district. But it`s now no longer the most effective border dispute that has grabbed the highlight of late. In fact, numerous Indian states continue to be worried in boundary disputes. They encompass Odisha, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Ladakh, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram, Meghalaya, and Nagaland.
While the Centre continues that it acts most effective as a facilitator for an amicable settlement, we examine the sickening troubles the states are preventing over, and the street ahead.
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ODISHA-ANDHRA
There`s a boundary row taking place among Odisha and Andhra Pradesh. The disputed region is Kotia this is claimed with the aid of using each the states. On Monday, the Odisha authorities proposed flying officials to take inventory of the improvement paintings there. There are 22 sales villages and 7 hamlets below the purview of the Kotia gram panchayat in Koraput district.
The Naveen Patnaik authorities in Odisha has reportedly introduced a unique bundle to make certain that those villages get avenue connectivity, true faculties, hospitals, bridges, police stations and banks. Earlier, the Andhra Pradesh authorities had exceeded out allowances below the vintage pension scheme and rolled out fitness schemes and scholar scholarships.
Union Minister and senior BJP chief from Odisha Dharmendra Pradhan these days sought CM Naveen Patnaik's non-public intervention for a harmonious decision to frame troubles with Andhra Pradesh.
Both governments had been sparring over Kotia for over 50 years now. Both have wrangled over it withinside the Supreme Court as well. In February 2021, the Andhra authorities held panchayat polls in Phatusineri village below Kotia gram panchayat. Last year, the Odisha authorities carried out elections to three-tier Panchayati Raj elections withinside the area.
Assam-Mizoram
Mizoram became carved out of Assam as UT in 1972. Later in 1987, it have become a nation following the Mizoram Peace Accord. Mizoram stocks a border with the districts Cachar, Hailakand and Karimganj of Assam. Since the 1980s, there had been conflicts off and on.
In July 2021, six Assam police employees and over 70 others had been injured while bloody clashes broke out at the Assam-Mizoram border. The aspects allegedly fired at every different.
Mizoram alleged that Assam police officers overran one in all their police outposts on the border metropolis of Vairengte. And so the Mizoram police retaliated. Local Mizos reportedly burnt down buses that had carried the Assam police officers to the border and attacked villagers from Assam.
Haryana-Himachal Pradesh
The states had been warring over the area Parwanoo, adjacent Panchkula. It is infrequently a demarcated border. Haryana claims that its neighbour has encroached upon a sizeable region of the nation. It requested the Survey of India to demarcate the boundary.
A joint spot inspection became carried out with the aid of using the officers of the sales and woodland departments and a record became despatched to the governments in 2021. The border problem is earlier than the MHA that's analyzing the diverse elements of the record. However, a decision is awaited.
Assam stocks a 804.10- km inter-nation boundary with Arunachal Pradesh. Arunachal Pradesh became carved out of Assam. The states are at loggerheads over the popularity of 123 villages.
Over the years, each states have accused every different of land encroachment, main to common violence. A match has been pending withinside the Supreme Court considering the fact that 1989 at the disputed regions.
In July ultimate year, each states signed the Namsai Declaration and resolved to deliver down the quantity of disputed villages from 123 to 86. In November of the equal year, the Chief Ministers of the 2 states deliberated at the development done with the aid of using the 12 nearby committees, entrusted with the obligation of resolving the border problem, together headed with the aid of using ministers of the 2 states, amongst different bilateral troubles.
Himachal Pradesh-Ladakh
The border row among the 2 reared its unpleasant head earlier than the November 12 Assembly elections in Himachal. The area of Sarchu at the Manali-Leh toll road became on the coronary heart of the talk. Sarchu is the mid-factor among Manali and Leh at 14,000 ft. It is famous amongst travelers traveling to Ladakh due to the fact it`s a great placing for camping.
The youths of Lahaul Valley declare that Leh citizens encroach on Himachal`s territory. They allege that citizens of Leh installation stores and camps at Sarchu at some point of the summer time season and therefore, their livelihood takes a beating. In 2014, while the J&K police installation a police put up at Sarchu for a rite carried out with the aid of using the Dalai Lama. The HP authorities had hostile it, announcing the police put up became in Himachal`s territory.
AND THE Maharashtra-Karnataka ROW
It became in November that the nearly 70-year-vintage row flared up once more while Maharashtra CM Eknath Shinde held a assembly to take inventory of the border dispute and deputed ministers to scale up coordination at the felony the front in addition to politically. A day later, Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai raked up the talk with the aid of using staking declare to a few forty villages that fall in Maharashtra. While Shinde stated that freedom combatants in Belagavi (in advance Belgaum) and different Marathi-speakme regions in Karnataka might be eligible for pension, Bommai declared offers for all Kannada faculties in Maharashtra.
At the time of India`s independence, Belagavi became a part of the Bombay nation that had blanketed elements of present-day Karnataka. After the implementation of the State Reorganisation Act, 1956, Belagavi (formerly Belgaum) have become part of Mysore, which became later merged into Karnataka.   
Maharashtra claims many elements of the Belagavi district, which falls in northern Karnataka, considering the fact that humans right here communicate Marathi. Exclusion of many regions has additionally been contested with the aid of using the nation. Maharashtra cites Article 131 and claims the apex courtroom docket has jurisdiction in instances of disputes wherein the Union authorities and the states are worried.