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Meghalaya : End in sight to Garo hills row |
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The deadlock between the Garo Students’ Union (GSU) and legislators from the Garo hills has finally been resolved, with the students’ union holding two separate meetings last week with the MLAs.
The meetings, held in Tura and Shillong, have sparked hope that a solution will be found to the impasse over the Meghalaya Board of School Education. In the first round of talks between the NGOs and the MLAs at Tura, both sides agreed to work towards a solution. The GSU and other NGOs of the Garo hills, such as the Joint Action Committee (JAC), had served a ‘quit Garo hills’ notice on all 24 MLAs of the zone if they did not resign from the Assembly.
The GSU and the JAC wanted the legislators to resign in protest against the government’s move to amend the Meghalaya Board of School Education Act, 1973 and for the firing on September 30 which claimed nine lives and injured over 100.
The D.D. Lapang government has appointed Justice (retd) D.N. Chaudhury of the Guwahati High Court to head the one-man judicial commission to probe the firing.
Newly-inducted minister Beckstar K. Sangma, who hails from the Garo hills, claimed that some vested interests and dropouts were spearheading the agitation in the name of the GSU.
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