Itanagar, Jan. 11: A high-level team, headed by an official of the rank of joint secretary, will visit Assam and Arunachal Pradesh to monitor the situation arising out of the frequent border skirmishes between the two states.

Sources in the chief minister’s office said in view of the repeated border skirmishes, the Centre had taken the issue quite seriously. The team will visit Gumto in Arunachal Pradesh and Mainajuli in Assam to take stock of the situation and submit a report to the Union home ministry.

The source said Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi and Arunachal Pradesh chief minister Dorjee Khandu had held a meeting on the sidelines of the chief ministers’ meeting on internal security, convened by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in New Delhi on January 6.

However, Gogoi reportedly “uttered some words” that annoyed Khandu, who retorted immediately. An infuriated Gogoi left the meeting.

During the brief exchange of words, Khandu made his displeasure known to Gogoi about Assam’s “atrocities on Arunachal villagers” living along the border, on a number of occasions.

A day after, Arunachal home minister Jarbom Gamlin and Doimukh MLA Ngurang Pinc held a meeting with Assam border areas department minister Gautam Roy and co-operation minister Bharat Narah in Guwahati.

Bihupuria MLA Bhupen Bora, Gohpur MLA Ripun Bora, Jonia MLA Bhuban Pegu, Sootea MLA Padma Hazarika and Sadiya MLA Balin Chetia also attended the meeting.

Both sides resolved to work jointly and not to transgress into each other’s territory without giving information to the administration of any state.

The meeting also decided to send a ministerial team from each state to Mainajuli in Assam to assess the situation.

The chairman of the North East Students Organisation (Neso), Samujjal Bhattacharyya, mediated a meeting between the “warring” students’ unions of both the states to come on the negotiation table to ease the tension that arose out of recent developments.