SHILLONG, APR 24: Chief executive member (CEM) of the Khasi Hills Autonomous District Council (KHADC) Pyniaid Sing Syiem has assured to immediately write to the authority of the North Eastern Indira Gandhi Regional Institute of Health and Medical Sciences (NEIGRIHMS) on the council’s decision not to issue trading license to a contractor engaged by the institute as per Trading by Non-Tribal Regulation 1954.

The assurance was given to a delegation of the Khun Hynniewtrep National Awakening Movement (KHNAM) during a meeting held at the KHADC.

Speaking to reporters, KHNAM working president Thomas Passah said the demand has been made as per section 3(A)(e) of the Trading by Non-Tribal Regulation, 1954 which states that “The number of non-tribal licensed traders have already reached the limit fixed the Executive Committee under the provision of this Region and the rules made the ritual under.”

“As per this section of the trading by non-tribal regulation, the particular non-tribal contractor (engaged by NEIGRIHMS) should not get the trading license. We urged the CEM to write a letter to NEIGRIHMS to state clearly that the KHADC as per law cannot issue trading licenses on the ground that there are local people, who are also taking up the same trade of work. It is not fair that local people will be denied contract work in their own homeland. We must realise that a Khasi cannot get contract work outside the state,” he said.

“We really appreciated the CEM for taking up the issue and he has assured us that he would be writing immediately to the deputy director of NEIGRIHMS that the KHADC cannot issue trading license to this person named Singhania, who was allotted with the contract work in NEIGRIHMS,” he added.

Passah informed that the KHNAM had met the Deputy Director (Admin) of NEIGRIHMS last week after receiving information that they have allotted a contract work to a non-tribal contractor, who is yet to obtain a trading license from the KHADC.

“The deputy director told us that the work was allotted to him but with a direction that he should obtain a trading license from the district council,” he said.

Passah also alleged that the said contractor had tried to terminate local workers and such an attitude is not acceptable.

“We have decided to be watchdogs against such people coming to the state with such motives of carrying out illegal trading and we urged the people to inform against such incidents of illegal trading in their areas so that we can protect the economic interest of the indigenous people,” he added.

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