Banking service chronicle published this aticle page 2 the two states share a roughly 800-kilometre-long border. the disputed areas the mou deals with are 123 border villages which span 12 districts of arunachal pradesh and 8 districts of assam. before north east frontier agency or nefa former name of what is now arunachal pradesh) was carved out of when arunachal was made a union territory in 1972 it contended that several forested tracts in the plains that had traditionally belonged to hill tribal chiefs and communities were unilaterally transferred to assam Banking service chronicle magazine subscription.
