Shillong, May 4: Cabinet minister and chairman of the Regional Committee for West Khasi Hills Paul Lyngdoh on Thursday informed that the committee will be put in place by next month.

Speaking to reporters, Lyngdoh said that he had already spoken to the deputy commissioner of West Khasi Hills on the matter.

“We are trying to first get new members nominated because the old committee have become dysfunctional in view of the fact that you have MLAs who are no longer in the current House. So that process is already on and hopefully in the next one month, we should be having the regional committee fully in place and then we will visit Nongstoin in order to take a review,” he added.

The committee was reconstituted earlier in March this year to examine the status of Langpih, which is one of the six remaining areas of difference with Assam.

When asked that Langpih has been considered as a more complicated sector to be resolved, the chairman however said, “Whenever we have problems, we also try to come up with solutions so we hope that our solutions will be bigger than the problems.”

Earlier, the chief minister Conrad K Sangma had informed that the second phase of border talks with Assam will be this month.

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