Kharshiing seeks clarity on lineage bill

SHILLONG: John F. Kharshiing has said the Grand Council of Chiefs will accept the majority view on the Khasi lineage amendment bill but before that it needs clarification.
Thanking KHADC chief executive member HS Shylla for “for expressing concern about the gravity of influx through intermarriage”, the chairman of the Grand Council of Chiefs said, “… the bill is not clear and needs more clarification as it appears that from the date of its approval by the governor all such intermarriage and their offsprings will lose even their kinship to their respective Clan Dorbar Kur, which would then need an act/rules of denotification (Tait Kur) or maybe ostracisation of the concerned individuals from their clan.”
He urged the KHADC to widely share and circulate the detailed survey and “census” and the total population of over 3,000 Khasi Jaintia clans and the latest census available with it based on which it had to take such a “hasty decision to pass the Khasi Lineage 2nd Amendment Bill 2018”.
He questioned the delay in holding a Dorbar Hima Mylliem. He urged the Executive Committee of the KHADC to put in public domain all the annual reports and audit reports of the Khasi Dorbar KUR and the 54 Hima/Elaka relating to Khasi population statistics since 1959 when the draconian act, the United Khasi and Jaintia Hills (Appointment and Succession of Chiefs and Headmen) Act 1959 came into effect.