NONGPOH: The general council of the Ri Bhoi Dorbar was held here on Thursday in which various issues, like upgradation of Patharkhmah administrative unit to a civil sub-division and creation of two more Community & Rural Development Blocks at Umden and Mawhati, were taken up for discussion.
Chief Executive Member of the Khasi Hills Autonomous District Council HS Shylla attended the first session of the Council as the chief guest and officially released the Constitution of the Ri Bhoi Dorbar.
Chief Minister Conrad Sangma attended the second session as the chief guest in which former chief ministers namely EK Mawlong, DD Lapang, JD Rymbai and present MLAs of Ri Bhoi District were also felicitated.
A memorandum was also submitted to the chief minister on the issues taken up by the Ri Bhoi Dorbar.
The other issues discussed were returning of the disputed land at Block-II to the state and construction of the Ri Bhoi National Dorbar Hall.
In his address to the gathering, Sangma lauded the leaders of the Ri Bhoi Dorbar for their collective responsibility to bring all round development in the district and said that the leaders have set a good example for other districts in the state.
The chief minister also said the government is taking the development of the district seriously and as Ri Bhoi was named as one of the ‘aspirational districts’, special schemes from the Centre as well as from State will be implemented to bring about development.
Sangma informed the gathering that the MDA government had approved Rs 85 crore for black-topping of the Umsning-Jagiroad Road and that other PMGSY schemes have also been approved for implementation in Ri Bhoi.
Meanwhile, as per the memorandum, Sangma assured the Dorbar leaders that financial assistance will be given for construction of the Ri Bhoi National Dorbar Hall from the Chief Minister Schemes and that the other issues will be taken up by the government.
