Meghalaya women's forum urges CM to initiate dialogue on Shillong ropeway deadlock

Shillong, Nov 9 (UNI) Ka Lympung Ki Seng Kynthei (The Forum of Women's Organisations) has urged Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad Sangma to initiate dialogue with the Joint Action Committee (JAC) which is staging an indefinite sit-in demonstration opposing the Rs 151-crore Shillong ropeway project. The JAC members, comprising mostly women from the city, have been staging a peaceful protest in front of the U Kiang Nangbah statue since Friday (November 6), demanding that the state government permanently scrap the ropeway project along the the Shillong Peak range, locally known as U Lum Shyllong. In its letter to the Chief Minister…