GCCM urges govt to constitute boundary commission

Syllad | The Rising MeghalayaMay 9, 2019

SHILLONG: The Grand Council of Chiefs of Meghalaya (GCCM) on Thursday urged the state government to consider constituting a Meghalaya State Commission on Inter-State Boundary.

“We would like to strongly urge  the state government to constitute a Meghalaya State Commission on Inter-State Boundary, which would be mandated to look into the challenges that keep arising due to the status quo and difficulty in resolving the Assam-Meghalaya boundary since last 67 years since independence,” GCCM chairman John F Kharshiing said in a memorandum to the chief minister Conrad K Sangma here.

The demand came in the wake of the recent assault on the secretary of Hima Nongspung Syiemship Michael Warjri, who is also a resident of Balakawa village under Jirang C&RD Block in Ri Bhoi District.

Kharshiing said from time to time our people are compelled to face conflict situation and tension along border areas especially areas under dispute with Assam and Bangladesh.

He said the non-resolution of the treaty agreement and delay in defining the true jurisdiction of the ” Khasi States” as described in the First Schedule,  and based on the Instrument of Accession and Annexed Agreement of 17 August 1948, is another cause for these human rights violation at the border areas.

The Council also urge the government to take urgent steps for the release of Warjri, who has been wrongly put in jail by the Assam Police besides taking strong action against the criminals involved in the incident.