SHILLONG: Following the two-day survey conducted by the Directorate of Land Records & Survey last week, a meeting was held on Monday to finalise the map that is scheduled to be submitted to the High Level Committee (HLC).
When contacted, an official source said the meeting was attended by officials of the Directorate of Land Records & Survey, the Hima Mylliem and Shillong Municipal Board. “After discussion they finalised the map that is to be submitted to the HLC”, the official added.
Meanwhile, Urban Affairs Minister and member of the high-level committee constituted to address the issue of relocation of Punjabi Lane residents, Hamlet Dohling, has asked people to be patient and wait for the panel’s report on it.
Dohling’s appeal came a day after senior UDP leader Bindo Lanong had asked Sikh leaders to accept the government’s relocation proposal.
Speaking to media persons here on Monday, the minister said he did not want to make any comment against Lanong’s statement and instead informed that the committee was on the job and that it would not be wise for anyone to make comments at this juncture.
“Give us a chance. We are not sitting idle. We will come out with a clear statement soon,” Dohling said even as he added that it was in the fitness of things that “no A, B or C should make any such statement as the committee constituted was working on the matter seriously and that the decision should be awaited”.
Stating that the committee was awaiting the report of the recently conducted survey in the Punjabi Lane (Them Iew Mawlong), Dohling said the committee would sit again after getting the report of the land survey.
Lanong had in a statement on Sunday said that the Akali Dal delegation from Punjab, the local Harijan body and others supporting the demand of the Harijan community of Them Mawlong Hat Colony, should see reason to accept the relocation proposal of the government.
Earlier, Lanong had pointed out various legal and rational aspects related to the age-old issue of relocation and appealed for cooperation even as he minced no words to say that residents of the colony were fighting a losing battle.
