GUWAHATI A traditional village-level administrative male bastion my fall in matrilineal Meghalaya.
The Khasi Hills Autonomous District Council (KHADC) is planning to rewrite the rules to make it mandatory for every Dorbar Shnong to have two women representatives in its executive committee.
A Dorbar Shnong is a traditional village institution of the ethnic Khasi community where age-old customary laws largely dictate governance. Each Dorbar Shnong across the Khasi domain is headed by an elected Rangbah Shnong.