The Meghalaya government has scheduled a meeting with the representatives of the residents of State capital Shillong’s Harijan Colony, also known as Punjabi Lane and Them Iew Mawlong, for their relocation.
The Mazhabi Sikhs and other Dalit inhabitants of the colony have been under pressure to vacate the area, considered prime property, since a communal flare-up in May 2018. A quarrel between some women of the area and a tribal bus operator had snowballed into the unrest.
Four years after communal strife, Shillong’s Sikhs agree to relocate
