KSU asks political leaders of Khasi-Jaintia Hills to oppose retrospective implementation of roster system

Syllad | The Rising MeghalayaMay 18, 2023

The Khasi Students’ Union (KSU) has asked all political leaders from Khasi-Jaintia Hills to oppose against the government’s decision to implement the reservation roster with retrospective effect.

“We also urge them to demand the government to ensure that the implementation of the roster should be prospectively,” KSU general secretary Donald V Thabah said in a statement issued here on Thursday.

This came one day ahead of the All-Party meeting called by the state government to discuss on the reservation roster.

Thabah said if the government decide to implement the roster right from 1972 to compensate the loss faced by the Garo community, this will no doubt affect the Khasi job seekers.

“Just because you think that the former leaders had committed a mistake, it is not fair to punish the present generation Khasi youth, who are innocent and who have got nothing to do with this and who only want to get job,” he said.

According to him, if going by the ‘population ratio’, the Khasi community are not getting much benefit from the 40% reservation because their population are much higher than the Garo community.

“So implementing the roster backwards would further reduce the percentage of reservation for the Khasis,” he asserted.

The KSU general secretary said the union reiterated its demand that the MDA government should implement the roster system prospectively to ensure the Khasis population are not deprived of their rights.