Headmen allege deprivation
NONGSTOIN: The headmen of 18 villages in Warsan Lyngdoh area, under the banner of Synjuk Rangbah Shnong Warsan Lyngdoh, have decided to move the court against the State Government for excluding the villages from receiving benefits of various government schemes after the villages were ‘forcibly’ added to South West Khasi Hills District in October 2, 2012.
The decision was taken at the general meeting held here on Wednesday.
R. Marthong, spokesperson of the Synjuk, in a press statement, said that the people of 18 villages under Warsan Lyngdoh area have been deprived of various developmental schemes by the Government for the past two years after they were excluded from West Khasi Hills and ‘forcibly shifted’ to South West Khasi Hills District.
“We have decided to file a petition in the High Court of Meghalaya against the inefficiency of the Government in providing various schemes including Indira Awas Yojana, Total Sanitation Scheme and MGNREGA etc., which have earlier supported the poor people of the area,” said Marthong.
Meanwhile, the Synjuk also demanded that the State government should speed up the implementation of Kynshi Hydel Electrical Power Project Stage – I as the project has been abandoned by the implementing agency due to the government’s inability to take initiative in the matter.