Shillong, March 31: After the retirement of Meghalaya Lokayukta chairperson B Dhar on February 28, the anti-corruption panel has become non-functional for more than a month.
According to an official source, it will take sometime to appoint a new chairperson as certain procedures will have to be adhered to.
The government will have to constitute search and select panels before appointing the new Lokayukta chief.
In the absence of a chairperson, the Lokayukta has become defunct as there is no scope to accept complaints since it has been functioning only with a chairperson without any members unlike State Information Commission and Human Rights Commission.
The first Lokayukta was retired Justice P K Mushahary who had served from November 2018 to May 2021 followed by Dhar from February 2022 till 2025 February.
