SHILLONG: The Meghalaya Indigenous Youth Federation (MIYF) on Sunday said that it would appeal to the High Court to intervene into the matter of delay in passage of the KHADC’s Village Bill to seek a clarification from the authorities regarding the points, clauses, articles and paragraphs that confronted the Union Laws.
In a statement issued here on Sunday, MIYF Publicity Secretary Kitboklang Kharlyngdoh said that it cannot accept the portion of recent judgment of the High Court of Meghalaya, instructing the ‘Sub-State’ authority, which is Meghalaya, to frame laws for the traditional institutions, while he appreciated the portion of the order bringing headmen under RTI Act, Anti Corruption mechanism and providing them with remuneration.
He said that para 12A of the Sixth Schedule of the Indian Constitution provides power to the state to make laws in the Scheduled areas of Meghalaya if the ADCs failed to make laws on their subjects in their respective areas of jurisdiction.
He also asserted that para 12 A cannot interfere into the existing laws of the autonomous District councils. While appreciating suggestions of the High Court of Meghalaya on issues such as paying salaries for the headman, including them within the ambit of the Anti Corruption Act and bringing them within the provisions of the RTI Act 2005, he said that the MIYF has high expectation from the KHADC to amend the Village Constitution Act by inserting the points suggested by the High Court of Meghalaya.
“The JHADC, as it has its own Village Act, should amend it, to insert the points suggested by the High Court of Meghalaya,” he said.
