THE Meghalaya coalition government ha succeeded in pacifying the Khasi Students’ Union (KSU) on the contentious job reservation policy and on the question of infiltration of outsiders. Cabinet Committee on Public Grievances held talks with the student leaders. PWD Minister Dr Mukul Sangma heads the committee. Both he and the KSU president Samuel Jyrwa emerged out of the talks with smiles. The meeting decided to constitute a sub-committee, which would work out modalities for enactment of fresh laws to check influx and also formulate a new reservation policy serving the interest of the state as a whole. Sports and Youth Affairs Minister Paul Lyngdoh will head the sub-committee. It will have in its fold three representatives, each from the KSU, Garo Students’ Union (GSU) and the Jaintia Students’ Union (JSU).

After holding separate meetings with the three students’ unions, the sub-committee would soon convene another meeting involving all the three unions where views on the contentious issues would be freely exchanged in order to arrive at a amicable solution.

Mukul Sangma said that the Govt would empower the traditional tribal administrative bodies for dealing with the problem of influx and also formulate new laws to tackle the problem. On the demand for a review of job reservation policy, the minister said the government would address the issue on both political and social fronts. “We shall take all the concerned parties into confidence before arriving at a solution acceptable to all,” he said.

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