On Saturday, Union Home minister Amit Shah will be in Meghalaya for a two-day visit along with a few other Union ministers handling portfolios for the northeastern states. Union home minister Amit Shah will be guided by the minister of state (MoS), Jitendra Singh, for the ministry of development of the northeastern region, and G Kishan Reddy, minister of culture and development in the northeastern region of India.
Amit Shah will chair a closed-door meeting with the chief ministers, the chief secretaries, and the police chiefs of all the northeast states to discuss, among other agendas, the interstate boundary issue plaguing these parts.
HM Shah will also have other official engagements in Meghalaya during his stay. The home minister will inaugurate the inter-state bus terminus (ISBT) at Mawiong in the outskirts of Shillong and a cryogenic plant at New Shillong Township. On Saturday, Union home minister Amit Shah will visit Sohra (erstwhile Cherrapunji) a day later to inaugurate the Greater Sohra water supply scheme and a separate afforestation project. He is also scheduled to pay a visit to the Ramakrishna Mission Ashram there on Sunday.
Meanwhile, security arrangements were tightened in Meghalaya ahead of the Union home minister’s visit.
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