The four Northeastern states of Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Nagaland, and Mizoram were carved out of Assam. With each having a different perception of their territory, all four states have border disputes with Assam.
NCERT Director Dinesh Saklani, however, claimed that the change was approved during the same exercise and it did not find mention in the official notification due to an
While no changes have been made to this particular section of the Class XII political science textbook as part of NCERT's rationalisation project, the Akalis say the resolution only sought to promote federalism within the constitutional framework.