Shillong, Nov 10: Cabinet Minister Sanbor Shullai has convened a meeting on the proposed Shillong Ropeway Project at Madan Laban on Wednesday at the State Convention Centre, Cultural Hall, Shillong.
Several women under the banner of the Joint Action Committee has been staging indefinite sit-in-demonstration at Barik demanding the scrapping or relocation of the project for the past 5 days.
In a letter issued on Tuesday, the 19-South Shillong Advisory Committee said the meeting will be chaired by Shullai, who is chairman of the committee, to discuss the implementation of the project.
The committee asked all invitees to share their views and suggestions, which will be submitted to the state government.
The invitees are Dorbar Shnongs, Seng Longkmie and Seng Samla of Laban, Madan-Riat Laban, Lumshatsngi Kenche’s Trace, Kench’s Trace Oxford Rilbong, Kynjat Phutbol, Upper Lumparing and Lower Lumparing, KSU Laban Circle, Seng Khasi Ri-Raid Laban, its women’s and youth wings, and the Joint Action Committee (JAC) Laban.
The Joint Action Committee (JAC) opposing the Shillong Ropeway Project has agreed to attend the stakeholders’ meeting convened by South Shillong MLA Sanbor Shullai on Wednesday, but made it clear that it will not soften its stand — scrap the project or shift it elsewhere.
Speaking on Tuesday, hours after Shullai called the meeting at the State Convention Centre, JAC president Deborah Marbaniang said the committee would go to the talks with a single, non-negotiable demand.
“As a JAC, we have decided to go tomorrow to the State Convention called by our honourable MLA, and we, the JAC, stand firm on the principle that you must scrap the project and you must relocate it to another place,” Marbaniang said.
