SHILLONG: A delegation of the Khasi Authors Society (KSA) met Chief Minister Conrad Sangma on Tuesday and urged him to convene a special session at the earliest for bringing back the Khasi-Garo language resolution to the Assembly for amendment to remove anomalies.
The chief minister assured KSA that the special session will be called after Diwali.
Following their meeting with Sangma, KAS president DRL Nonglait said the chief minister has also assured that the final papers of the resolution will be shown to the society.
During the meeting, the chief minister also sought the cooperation of the society in ensuring that Khasi-Garo languages are included in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution at the earliest.
On September 27, the Assembly had passed the resolution to include Khasi and Garo languages in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution but the government could not send the resolution to the Centre since the state admitted in the resolution that there certain difficulties in fulfilling the criteria for recognition to Khasi-Garo languages exist.
The prerequisites for a language to be recognised are that it should be the main medium of instruction and there should be a Sahitya Sabha or Academy.
However, KSA pointed out that there should not be any difficulty since Khasi is a subject of instruction from the primary level of education to PHD.
Besides, the KSA in Khasi Hills and Garo Literary Society in Garo Hills can function as Sahitya Sabha or Sahitya Academy.
According to a government official, the state should not have mentioned the difficulties in the resolution and instead it should have been left to the Centre to point out the same.
