By Our Reporter
SHILLONG: After deciding to move the court against the self-styled Rangbah Shnong, the KHADC advisory committee chairman Latiplang Kharkongor has now said that the Council would be compelled to constitute its own town police if the district administration failed to initiate action against several Panchayats issuing illegal residential certificates to individuals with doubtful credentials.
“The district administration has not been responsive in acting against Panchayats despite admitting that the issuance of certificates by such organisations in the Sixth Schedule areas is illegal,” Kharkongor said here on Sunday adding that if the concerned authorities fail to check the illegal activities of these Panchayats, the Council would have to constitute its own town police which would take action against those violating the directive of the KHADC.
Pointing out that he had personally lodged a complaint with the East Khasi Hills Deputy Commissioner Sanjay Goyal for initiating action against the Gorkha Public Panchayat president, Bhavan S Rai, for illegally issuing of residential certificates to certain residents of Madanriting, Kharkongor lamented that police is yet to summon the erring individual.
The KHADC advisory committee chairman informed that there a total of ten Panchayats of the Nepalese alone and the Council has no track of similar bodies formed by other tribal communities here.
Meanwhile, the KHADC would meet on Monday to take a final call on filing a case against the self-styled Rangbah Shnong.
The issue had figured during the recent Assembly session with the HSPDP legislator Ardent Basaiwmoit seeking the intervention of the Government in the matter.