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Sharing this historic decision with the members of the Khasi Authors Society, the Chief Minister said that while the resolution was passed in the Meghalaya Legislative Assembly to include the Khasi and the Garo languages in the Eight Schedule there was a need to send a strong message to the people of the State and the central government of the importance of promoting local languages at all levels and for the agenda of inclusion of these languages in the Eight Schedule. “For many years there has been a demand from the people to include the Khasi and the Garo languages as the official languages of the state and I am happy to share with you that, that decision has been taken by the cabinet today,” he said.

The Chief Minister added that this is an important and major step and though the process of fully introducing the languages in government and official communications and examinations would take time the decision has set the system for the adoption of these languages. He also said that in the Autumn Assembly Session legislators will not be able to speak and debate in these languages. “It will be very appropriate to have the Autumn Session in the new assembly building where debates will take place in Khasi and Garo languages,” he said