Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma has termed unfortunate the protests over the Shillong Ropeway project, especially after “all clarifications made”, and warned that such opposition would harm employment prospects of the youth.
“It is really unfortunate. There were concerns raised by certain organizations and individuals and the department has clarified on almost all fronts,” Sangma told reporters on Monday in reply to a query on the protests over the ropeway project.
“My concern right now is to find out what are the concerns… if there are any genuine issues, we should talk about it and figure it out, but opposing for the sake of opposing is not really a healthy trend in governance and in politics in general,” Sangma said.
Expressing that genuine concerns must be backed by reasoning, he said, “You will have to back your concerns with real reasoning… if there are issues, and if they are genuine, we will discuss it, we have no problem in that.”
The Chief Minister also reminded that the project has been vetted by expert agencies for over two years, saying, “…all different aspects of environment and all other issues, most of them, in fact all of them I should say, have been addressed and taken care of.”
He mentioned that officials concerned have already clarified all the points and that the “clarifications are quite clear .
