SHILLONG: The town planner of Ri Bhoi district along with the Additional District Magistrate (ADM), Revenue visited Khanapara on Tuesday to inspect the site where a five-star hotel is being built along Meghalaya-Assam boundary.
Acting Deputy Commissioner, Ri Bhoi, KL Nongbri said that the report of the inspection will be submitted within this week.
The hotel is just a stone’s throw away from the “Koinadhora” hillock where Assam Chief Minister’s official residence is located. There are claims that the hillock belonged to Meghalaya, but was given away to Assam as a goodwill gesture to construct a rest house called ” Indira Bhavan” in the 1970s.
On Saturday, members of the Ri- Bhoi Youth Federation (RBYF), acting on a complaint by local traditional chiefs, went to the hotel site at Them Marwet, Khanapara and forcibly stopped the construction of the hotel.
The traditional chiefs alleged that the land belonged to Meghalaya and that Rumnong did not procure any permission from the former while selling it out.
