Plight of Meghalaya women in Assam needs to be addressed: AMMSU
TURA: The All Meghalaya Minority Students’ Union (AMMSU) has urged the state government to take urgent steps to address the plight of the married Meghalaya women in Assam who were left out of the NRC.
In a memorandum submitted to the Chief Minister, Conrad Sangma, the union urged the government to take up the matter with Assam Government and facilitate the reference of all Meghalaya related cases to the state and to allow the formation of a separate Foreigners’ Tribunal (FT) for dealing with such cases.
It may be mentioned that the Assam Government has given 120 days’ time for filing appeals before the FT of Assam to establish their citizenship and unless the Meghalaya Government can convince its counterpart to refer the cases to the state’s own FT, the genuine Indian citizens from Meghalaya who are residing in Assam may be declared as foreigners, which in turn would compel them to come back to Meghalaya.
Earlier, the Assam government had taken up with the state government the verification of data and certification of genuineness of Meghalaya women living in Assam.
However, due to some problems in the verification process, the names of many of the women were dropped from the NRC which was published in Assam.
