Govt to notify regional panels soon

“We have finalized the regional committees and the notification should be out very soon,” Sangma told reporters after the cabinet meeting held here.

During his recent visit to New Delhi, the chief minister had also informed the Union Home Minister Amit Shah about the start of the second phase of the border talks between Meghalaya and Assam.

“We give him updates on the discussion that we had and that very soon we will be coming up with the regional committees from both sides like we have done in the first phase and that we will try our best to resolve this issue at the earliest,” Sangma said.

“To that of course he was very happy and very positive and he said that he would like to see that we are able to resolve this issue at the earliest. He stressed that we should work closely with the central government to find a way to resolve those issues at the earliest. I told him we will but there is a process and we need to discuss with a large number of stakeholders, we need to make a lot of field visits as these areas are much larger and much bigger and much complicated compared to the last phase and hence it will take a bit more time and hence we will do our best,” he added.

He said the union minister has asked the state government to move on with the border talks.

The chief minister also submitted a report on the works done by the MDA government during the past four and a half years.

“He (Shah) was very happy to see the kind of progress that has been made especially when it comes to the SHGs, where we have now saturated every rural household to be part of a SHGs. When we started off, we have only 4,000 SHGs but today we are touching almost 45,000 groups. The same we are doing for the farmers and the youths. Then he encouraged that we should go for a cooperative movement also and that the ministry under him he will be coming up with a large number of plans especially in terms of the agriculture products of the NE,” he said.

By Our Reporter