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Officials to assess damage to paddy fields at Mawryngkneng

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By Our Reporter

 Shillong: The East Khasi Hills district administration has asked officers of the Agriculture department to assess the damages to paddy fields at Mawryngkneng and adjoining villages due to illegal dumping of soil on paddy fields by the workers of GR Infra Company entrusted with the Shillong Bypass project.

The development comes a week after the Mawryngkneng KSU unit along with affected farmers staged a hunger strike at the parking lot of the Additional Secretariat here last month.

East Khasi Hills Deputy Commissioner Sanjay Goyal informed that the district administration has given some time to the officers to go about the process.

He also stated that the land in question is not government land and hence there would be difficulties in working out compensation as such matters should be addressed by the concerned company. He, however, added that once the assessment is done, a compensation deal with the concerned company would be worked out.

“We cannot go by the claims of the farmers that about Rs 10 crore of damages have been incurred,” the DC said.

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