SHILLONG: The team of Urban Affairs Department of Ri Bhoi district, which visited Khanapara recently to inspect the site where a five-star hotel is being built along Meghalaya-Assam boundary, has submitted its report to the Deputy Commissioner of Ri Bhoi.
Sources said that the district administration is currently studying the report.
As per the report, the Guwahati Municipal Development Authority (GMDA) has given the necessary permission to construct the two apartments.
The hotel is just a stone’s throw away from the “Koinadhora” hillock where Assam Chief Minister’s official residence is located. There were claims in the past 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 70s.
Recently, some 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 work of the hotel owned jointly owned by two businessmen Ram Avtar Agarwal and Suresh Prithani.The traditional chiefs alleged that the land belonged to Meghalaya.
