SHILLONG: A team of Urban Affairs Department from Nongpoh along with magistrates would visit Khanapara on Tuesday to inspect the site where a five- star hotel is being built along Meghalaya- Assam boundary
This was informed by the Acting Deputy Commissioner of Ri Bhoi KL Nongbri on Monday.
The hotel is just a stone’s throw away from the ” Koinadhora” hillock where Assam Chief Minister’s official residence is located. There were claims that the hillock belonged to Meghalaya, but was given away to Assam as a goodwill gesture to construct a rest house called ” Indira Bhavan” in the 1970s.
On Saturday, members of the Ri- Bhoi Youth Federation ( RBYF), acting on a complaint by local traditional chiefs, went to the hotel site at Them Marwet, Khanapara and forcibly stopped the construction of the hotel owned jointly owned by Ram Avtar Agarwal and Suresh Prithani.
However, no FIR has been lodged by the hotel owners so far in this regard.
Nongbri also said that as per the records, the land belongs to Meghalaya but a team will conduct the inspection and verify the facts According to the traditional chiefs – Raid Marwet chief K Syiem and local Khanapara headman Jeromi Lyngdoh – Agarwal, hailing from Assam, claimed ownership of the land which he had bought from one Saikordor Rumnong.
The traditional chiefs alleged that the land belonged to Meghalaya and that Rumnong did not procure any permission from the former while selling out the land.
