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The government has refuted reports that boundary pillars on the India-Myanmar border in the Manipur sector had been shifted.

Responding to media reports that Myanmar had moved boundary pillars several kilometres inside India, the MEA spokesperson dismissed them as “baseless and unsubstantiated”. “This sector of the international boundary is settled and there is no confusion as to its alignment,” MEA spokesperson Raveesh Kumar said. The statement came as tension grew in Manipur on the issue.

“Routine survey work was carried out by Indian and Myanmar survey departments during which construction work of subsidiary pillars in between settled main boundary pillars 81 and 82 along zero line, i.e, agreed and settled international boundary, has been undertaken,” he said.

Courtesy:  Times Group: 09072018