[Shillong]Pb Govt Faces Resentment Of Meghalaya Counterpart funding Directly To Sikhs Without Informing the State Government.
Meghalaya’s Urban Affairs department minister Hamlet Dohling.informed the Assembly that the Punjab government had sanctioned Rs 1.5 lakh for treatment of 10 sikh widows in 2015.
Punjab government had also sanctioned Rs 10 lakh for the construction of the Guru Nanak School at Bara Bazar in 2016, .
Shilling had witnessed large-scale violence in June last year following clashes between sikhs living in the Punjabi lane and lacal tribals over an incident of eve-teasing and subsequent assault of a person from a local tribal community.
The hill station Shillong had experienced curfew for months after the clashes. Punjab government had raised the matter of security of their community members with the Meghalaya government then.
Lone Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) legislator Saleng A Sangma attacked the state government over the issue saying it reflects its irresponsible attitude.
Pb Govt Faces Resentment Of Meghalaya Counterpart funding Directly To Sikhs
Mar. 11
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