JOWAI: The Khasi Hills Autonomous District Council wants its Jaintia Hills counterpart to introduce a bill similar to the lineage bill as “Khasis and Pnars are the same community”, said KHADC chief HS Shylla on Friday.
Executive members of the Khasi and Jaintia Hills district councils held a meeting on Friday here to discuss the KHAD (Khasi Social Custom of Lineage) (Second Amendment Bill), 2018.
Members of the consultative committee on the amendment of the Lineage Act – Allantry Dkhar and Vice Chairman Robertjune Kharjarin along with North Shillong legislator Adelbert Nongrum – attended the meeting.
“Khasis and Pnars are the same community and… we requested the CEM of the JHADC (Madonbai Rymbai) to frame a similar bill within the jurisdiction of the Jaintia Hills Autonomous District Council,” said Shylla.
Speaking to media persons after the meeting, Shylla informed that he is happy to meet the JHADC CEM. “We came to meet the JHADC as part of the consultative committee decision to discuss the lineage bill with a request that the Executive Committee of the JHADC also pass a similar bill in order to protect the status of the indigenous tribe of Meghalaya,” he added.
Erwin K Syiem Sutnga, legal advisor to the KHADC Executive Committee, was also present.
Rymbai said the matter will be “thoroughly discussed” by the JHADC Executive Committee.
