SHILLONG, Sept 19 NNN: Civil society organisations in Meghalaya are in full swing to prevent the influx of migrants in the state.
On Wednesday, various civil organisations asked the Khasi Hills Autonomous District Council (KHADC) to strengthen its “enforcements” and “traditional institutions” within its jurisdiction to help in tackling and controlling the problem of increased influx in the state.
A delegation of the KSU, FKJGP, CSWO, HNYF, KWADA, SSSS, RBYF today met the KHADC Chief Executive Member (CEM) PN Syiem to discuss on the issue.
“We have asked the council’s authority to take immediate steps by strengthening the enforcements of different departments to prevent from rampant issuing of trading licenses and labour licenses to non-indigenous people with doubtful credentials,” FKJGP president Jo Marwein told reporters after the meeting in Shillong.
According to him, most of the time, the KHADC has issued the labour license and trading license without verifying the documents of the non-tribal applicants.
He said, “We have also requested the CEM to issue direction to all the heads of the traditional institutions to stop rampant issuing of no objection certificates and given residential certificates without verification.”
Stating that State government is trying its best to strengthen the different mechanisms towards the problem, Marwein said, “The district council is also equally responsible in the task of tackling the influx problem.”
Meanwhile, the CEM assured the delegation that necessary steps would be taken up as far as the strengthening of enforcements are concerned.
He also informed that the KHADC would soon issue directions to the different Dorbar Shnongs to submit the list of non-indigenous people registered in their respective jurisdiction.
Border dispute
In connection with the Assam-Mizoram boundary dispute, Mizoram People’s Convention (MPC) president Lalhmangaiha Sailo said the dispute can be settled by constituting a coundary commission that will hold negotiation with the concerned higher authority.
The MPC leader said this while interacting with the media at Aizawl Press Club.
Saying that over the past years various political parties and leaders of Mizoram state had dealt with the misunderstanding between the neighbouring Assam state and Mizoram on the boundary issue, MPC president proposed that the problem on the boundary dispute could be solved by constituting a boundary commission and by way of negotiation. Lalhmangaiha Sailo added that the boundary line accepted by Mizoram is that of the one demarcated by the Mizo chiefs and the British Government in the year 1875. “However, in the passage of time, the Assam state does not accept that boundary line and therefore dispute on boundary has occurred.
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