JOWAI: Minister in charge Public Health Engineering Department, Prestone Tynsong unveiled the foundation stone laid down for starting up the Greater Raliang Water Supply Scheme that was centrally-sponsored by the Ministry of Development of North-East Region (DoNER) amounting to Rs 21.26 crore at Raliang village in Jaintia Hills District on Monday.

JOWAI: The slow progress in the construction of several water supply schemes in Jaintia Hills has deeply concerned the residents of the area.

The Garo, Khasi and Jaintia Hills region, with its unique landscape, climatic phenomenon of heavy cloud cover and torrential rainfall, and agricultural richness involving the majority of the population, has been proposed as another National Agricultural Biodiversity Heritage Site based on six indices.

JOWAI: Several houses at Umlong village under Khliehriat subdivision were damaged after they were hit by hailstorms at several places in the last two days.

Villagers informed that hailstones, some as big as cups and glasses hit the villages and damaged several house particularly those with tin roofs.

JOWAI: The Federation of Khasi Jaintia and Garo People (FKJGP) has threatened to shut down all cements factories in Jaintia Hills for their alleged deprivation of the local people of reservation in jobs, supply work and other services.

JOWAI: Cattle smuggling is rampant along the Meghalaya- Bangladesh border. Hundreds of cattle -heads are smuggled to Bangladesh via Kuliang, Dona, Umkiang and Ratacherra villages daily and the illegal business is a cause of serious concern for BSF personnel in the area.

SHILLONG: Amrit Cements Industries Limited located at Jaintia Hills District has been accused of violating the Forest Conservation Act at Umlaper village.

JOWAI: The tussle over ownership of a plot of forest land located at Mynthning village in Jaintia Hills has continued between the Dorbar Shnong Mynthning and Durbar Shnong Samasi.

JOWAI: The Jaintia Hills Deputy Commissioner has declared Jowai town as a "free plastic zone" under the Total Sanitation Campaign.

The declaration was made on Thursday, on the occasion of the 38th Statehood day.

Mining Policy too late to save Jaintia Hills rivers

By HH Mohrmen

SHILLONG: In 1957, David Lean made the famous movie The Bridge on the River Kwai a British World War II film based on the emergency construction of a railway bridge for war purposes in Burma.

Jaintia Hills has its own river Kwai which is the latest to join the ranks of dead rivers.

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