Mawlai MLA Process T Sawkmie informed today that he has met Chief Minister Conrad Sangma and relevant officials in order to get Mawlai excluded from the census town designation so that it can draw on schemes for rural areas, such as the rural employment guarantee scheme (MGNREGS).
He said that the inclusion of Mawlai as a census town is a great loss to many developmental works in the greater Mawlai area.
“I am hopeful that the state government excludes Mawlai from being a census town so that all localities under Mawlai avail the MGNREGS scheme and there is overall development in the constituency as a whole,” he added.