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Maharashtra-Karnataka Border Dispute 2025
March 1 , 2025
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- The boundary dispute goes back to the reorganisation of states on linguistic lines through the States Reorganisation Act, 1956.
- Since its creation on May 1 of 1960, Maharashtra has claimed that 865 villages in Karnataka should be merged with Maharashtra.
- On October 25, 1966, on the insistence of Maharashtra, the Centre constituted a Commission headed by the former Chief Justice of India Mehr Chand Mahajan to study the issue.
- The Mahajan Commission had rejected Maharashtra’s claim over Belagavi (then Belgaum).
- But it recommended an exchange of some territories.
- It said that 247 villages/ places in Maharashtra, including Jatt, Akkalkote, and Solapur, should be made part of Karnataka, and 264 villages/ places in Karnataka, including Nippani, Khanapur, and Nandagad, should be made part of Maharashtra.
- The recommendations were rejected by Maharashtra.
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