The Regional Committee for Boundary Settlement for West Khasi Hills will visit the district in the next ten days to hold a series of meetings with the traditional heads and district authorities in order to carry forward the ongoing boundary talks with Assam.
“We are very likely to visit West Khasi Hills in the next ten days. We will schedule a series of meetings with the traditional institutions and also the heads of the district administration of West Khasi Hills and it should take us about two weeks or so,” said cabinet Minister Paul Lyngdoh is heading the regional committee for West Khasi Hills.
When asked how the regional committees will ensure that border tensions do not affect the second phase of border talks with Assam, Lyngdoh while admitting that it is contentious issue said that they will certainly make all efforts to ensure that instances of harassment are stopped as and when government moves forward to get the views of the local communities.
Lyngdoh said that he has also spoken to the Home Minister to strengthen police patrolling in the border districts at the earliest.
“As far as Langpih is concerned, even the Khasi Hills Autonomous District Council (KHADC) has already proposed setting up a local police outpost there,” he said.
Lyngdoh said that the State government will go into the documentation part, and wherever valid documents are available with the local population, it will further strengthen the arguments of Langpih being part of Meghalaya.
