SHILLONG: The Opposition in the KHADC has demanded that the select committee which was constituted by the previous House to study the Khasi Hill Autonomous District (Village Administration Bill), 2014 should be de-notified before allowing the bill to be re-introduced in the House.
“We demand that the select committee should first be de-notified before allowing the bill to be re-tabled in the House,” Opposition leader Pynshngain N Syiem said on the first day of the Council Summer Session here on Monday.
He also said that it was really surprising that the present Executive Committee has come up with its own report on the bill instead of tabling the report of the select committee.
“We were expecting that the report of the select committee would be tabled in the House,” Syiem said.
Meanwhile, KHADC CEM Ardent Miller Basaiawmoit said that the select committee constituted by the previous House is automatically dissolved with the constitution of the new House.
“We would again re-constitute the select committee if there is a necessity during the deliberations on the bill once it is tabled in the House,” Basaiawmoit said.
After listening the views of both the opposition and the EC, KHADC chairman Teilinia Thangkhiew gave her ruling that she would examine if there is a necessary to denotify the select committee constituted during the previous House.
The Chairman however allowed the KHADC CEM to re-introduce the Village Administration Bill.
It may be mentioned that the previous Congress led Executive Committee had decided to refer the Bill to the Select Committee in the Autumn Session last year after several MDCs objected to the passing of the bill in its present form.