Shillong, Oct 11: Langpih in West Khasi hills, Block I and Block II in Jaintia hills are missing from the Meghalaya map published by the Survey of India in 2009 under the direction of the Surveyor General of India located in Dehradun.
Langpih, Block I and II are disputed areas as Assam is also claiming that it belongs to their state. However all the three disputed areas were included in the Meghalaya map prepared in 1979-80 by the then joint director of Meghalaya survey showing Langpih along West Khasi hills-Kamrup boundary within Meghalaya and Block I and II areas as “disputed areas.”
This fact was unearthed by the Civil Society Women Organisation (CSWO) through the RTI which the organization had filed. CSWO president Agnes Kharshiing has now sought clarification from Meghalaya chief secretary WMS Pariat on non-inclusion of Langpih and the two blocks in Meghalaya’s map.
In a letter to Pariat, Kharshiing queried, “We want answers under whose orders these changes were made,”.
The 1979-80 map of the inter-state boundary between Meghalaya and Assam was done in accordance with the definition of Sub-Para (2) of Para 20 of the Sixth Schedule to the Constitution.
While Block I comprises of areas of differences between Meghalaya and Assam in the Jaintia Hills-North Cachar Hills districts, Block II is along the Ri Bhoi-Karbi Anglong districts. Villages forming part of Block-I and Block-II were “forcibly tagged” to the State of Assam in 1951. – By Our Reporter
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