SHILLONG: After the Khasi Hills Autonomous District Council (KHADC) said it would set up a police outpost in Langpih, the Khasi Students’ Union (KSU) said the state government should take similar steps in the Meghalaya-Assam border areas.
Speaking to reporters, the president of Khasi Students’ Union (KSU), Lambok Marngar, said, “If the district council has taken the step to set up a border outpost then it should not be difficult for the state government to take a cue from them and set up police outposts in every border area of Meghalaya and Assam where conflicts occur from time to time”.
Lauding the Executive Committee (EC) of the KHADC and extending support to it, the KSU president said the Council has taken the right step to safeguard the interests of the people there and also to avert encroachment by Assam into Meghalaya’s territory.
“We expect the work to start and also make progress,” Marngar
said.
He said that the state government has not been able to take concrete steps to resolve the boundary dispute.
Stating that the next step of the KHADC should be to strengthen the functioning of the traditional institutions, the KSU president added that it should bring together all the traditional heads living in the border areas and collect the land documents of Himas, Raids and headmen.
