SHILLONG: The Social Organisation of Meghalaya Against Land Alienation (SOMALA) has requested the Union government to keeping in abeyance the registration of citizens in the National Population Register (NPR) until the issue of illegal influx was sorted out.
In a letter submitted to Union Minister of State for Home Affairs, Kiren Rijiju, SOMALA informed that the Meghalaya Government had not enforced the Meghalaya Transfer of Land Regulation Act, 1971.
SOMALA stated that the emergence of cement companies and employment of outside labour force by the cement companies was against the spirit of the Sixth Schedule and lamented that under the State government’s Industrial Policy the tribals will lose their ancestral land and face increasing influx.
SOMALA also demanded adequate protection to the tribals of Meghalaya against land alienation and illegal influx vide a national policy.
