Imphal: A one-day convention on the disputed border pillars along Manipur boundary, organised by the United Committee Manipur (UCM) at Gandhi Memorial hall here on Monday, resolved to re-survey the pillars along the Indo-Myanmar border.

The gathering also resolved that the re-survey would be conducted by a team of the UCM, villagers along the border, the Manipur government, the Survey of India and local experts. It decided to study the 1967 boundary agreement, which refers to the traditional boundary, before starting the survey.

The issue of border pillar came to light when Tengnoupal deputy commissioner Abujam Tombikanta inspected the new border pillar 81 set up on June 22.

The Manipur People's Party (MPP) had claimed that Tombikanta had said the border pillar was erected at least 3km inside the Indian territory. The MPP also said Tombikanta had declined to sign the papers regarding border pillars as it was wrongly erected.

Manipur chief minister N. Biren Singh had said on Thursday that the state government had written to the Centre to send a central survey team to verify the positions of subsidiary pillars between main border pillar numbers 80 and 82 along the India-Myanmar border and particularly main pillar number 81. He refuted the recent allegation that border pillar number 81 was shifted to the Manipur side.

Biren had said the pillar was at the site where it was erected according to the India-Myanmar Boundary Agreement, 1967.

He expressed concern over spreading of the misinformation that the pillar was shifted inside Manipur's territory during the tenure of the present state government.

"The state government is making all efforts to address the issue, taking into consideration the interests of the state and sentiments of the general public," Biren Singh had said.

In view of the concerns raised on the issues of international boundary vis-à-vis traditional boundary, the state government has been holding consultations with several stakeholders, including the UCM.

On Thursday, the state government imposed night curfew under Section 144 of the CrPC along the Indo-Myanmar international border, within 3km from the border, in Moreh sub-division for six months from 7pm to 4am.

The Manipur Students' Association Delhi and three other Manipur-based groups will stage a mass protest at Shastri Bhavan in Delhi on Wednesday against "giving away Manipur's territory to Myanmar".