SHILLONG: The State Government has constituted a committee which will engage with the Centre on the demand for inclusion of Khasi language in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution.
Deputy Chief Minister in charge of Education, R.C. Laloo, and Director, Art and Culture department, M.W. Nongbri have been named chairman and member secretary of the committee, respectively, which was notified on November 28.
Other members of the committee include Urban Affairs Minister Ampareen Lyngdoh, UDP legislator Paul Lyngdoh, Congress legislator P.N. Syiem, HSPDP legislator Witting Mawsor, P.W. Ingty, Principal Secretary in charge Art and Culture, Dr. Sylvanus Lamare from the Sahitya Akademi, S. Dkhar, HoD, Khasi Dept., NEHU, MBOSE Executive Chairman E.P. Kharbhih, former member of Sahitya Akademi S. Quotient Sumer, Law Secretary L.M. Sangma, representative from the Khasi Authors’ Society and former MP B.R. Kharlukhi.
Constitution of the panel had been proposed by Chief Minister Mukul Sangma during the recently-concluded Winter Session of the Assembly.
