Meghalaya village risks being cut off as border fence nears completion
The Hindu
At Lyngkhong village in East Khasi Hills district, the foundation for the single line fence has been built but the fencing has been stopped due to protests of the residents.
Nearly 90 residents of this village located along the zero line on the Indo-Bangladesh border live in danger of their village being cut off from the rest of the country, as work on a border fence being built 150 yards inside the Indian border nears completion, village elders said on Sunday.
At Lyngkhong village in East Khasi Hills district, the foundation for the single line fence has been built but the fencing has been stopped due to protests of the residents. However, as yet the authorities have not agreed to either not build the fence or build it on the zero line itself.
Barning Khongsdir, the matriarch of Lyngkhong and one of the landowners in Shillong, told PTI, “It is not fair that our village will fall outside the territory of India once the fence is built. We do not feel safe. “ We have lived here since time immemorial ... The government should do something for our safety and well-being,” she said.
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