Probe ordered into illegal shopping complex construction in WGH

SHILLONG: With opposition to the alleged illegal construction of a shopping complex within the premises of Tikrikilla Government Boys’ ME School, the West Garo Hills district administration has ordered a magisterial inquiry into the matter.
The West Garo Hills Deputy Commissioner Pravin Bakshi said EAC cum BDO Tikrikilla, Kapil Koch, has been asked to conduct magisterial inquiry after spot inspection at the earliest.
The District Mission Coordinator, West Garo Hills, SB Marak,  Additional  Deputy Commissioner has also been informed and the District School Education Officer, BG Momin will also be intimated  to cause a departmental inquiry, the Deputy Commissioner said.
“If the charges are true, FIR will be lodged against the culprits. The nature of the fraud, as indicated is very serious and calls for exemplary action if found to be true”, Bakshi said.
Earlier several pressure groups including GSU had questioned the motive behind the commercial construction.
According to GSU, it had received information that 48 rooms are to be built and Rs. 30,000 has been collected from various investors in the guise of constructing a commercial building. The reports gathered by them suggested that 25 persons have benefitted from the collection.
Claiming to have learnt of several NOCs being given by vested interests allowing the construction to go ahead, the GSU had said that an RTI would be filed to reveal the corruption that is taking place in the school premises.
“We request the SMC to stop the construction immediately. We will coordinate with the FKJGP, ADE, AYWO and AIGU who raised the issue to get to the bottom of things. We will not allow such kind of corruption by vested interests and are ready to fight alongside the NGOs of Tikrikilla against the issue,” the GSU had warned.