Chief Minister Conrad Sangma today said that the State government will apply the same principle of getting the people’s consent in solving the boundary dispute with Assam in its second phase.
“It was the people’s will that was supreme in finding solutions to the complicated inter-state boundary issue,” Sangma said at the block committee meeting held at Mowkaiaw. He said this was the principle accepted and applied by the government during the first phase to resolve the six areas of differences with Assam.
Sangma said that the government will take the Jaintia Hills Autonomous District Council and all the stakeholders on board in resolving the dispute in the remaining six areas of differences of Khanduli and Psiar, Block 1 and Block 2, Borduar, Langpih, Nongwah – Mawtamur and Desh Doomreah.
“In the last four half years this government has been taking decisions for the people like never before. Our people have been suffering and living in fear and this is why this government has decided that these must come to an end. This government will not shy away from solving the inter-state boundary dispute,” he said.
The Chief Minister also announced setting up of a police outpost at Barato. He said with a number of crimes being reported the government has decided to speed up construction of the outpost and the foundation stone will be laid in a few weeks time.
Meanwhile, the chief Minister at the meeting announced Habahun Dkhar as the NPP candidate for the Mowkaiaw constituency to contest for the 2023 elections.
