The Hindu Business Line : Meghalaya bandh affects life

SHILLONG: Life was affected in Meghalaya's capital town and in three districts following a 12-hour bandh as Chief Minister D D Lapang rushed to Delhi to apprise the central leadership of the situation in the State arising out of the protracted agitation by a students organisation.

The bandh began at 5 a.m. on Tuesday and hit normal life in East and West Khasi Hills and Ri-Bhoi districts, including the State capital with all business establishments, educational institutions, central government offices and banks remaining closed and vehicles keeping off the roads, police said.

Thin attendance was reported in state government offices despite the Chief Secretary P J Bazeley yesterday directing all offices to function normally in the two days of the bandh.

A truck was torched at Mawali and stones were thrown at an ambulance, a Silchar-bound night bus and police patrol vehicles bus despite the curfew, police said.

The curfew imposed last night at Mawlai and Lundiengjiri police station areas of Shillong was relaxed for seven hours from 11 am today, official sources said.

The Cabinet in a late night meeting took stock of the law and order scenario in the State in view of the imposition of curfew in the two areas and prohibitory orders in Greater Shillong to prevent any major incidents during night when a 'public curfew' i s being held by the Khasi Students Union as part of its series of agitation on the demand for bifurcation the Meghalaya Board of School Education. - PTI

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