Shillong 24th August 2017. The Hynniewtrep Youth Council (HYC) members of Nongstoin Circle, who travelled on foot from Nongstoin-West Khasi Hills, arrive in Shillong on Thursday afternoon to pressurize the government to implement the Inner Line Permit (ILP) in the state including rapid development of West Khasi Hills district areas.
The HYC members staged a dharna at the Additional Secretariat Parking Lot, Shillong while their leaders from Nongstoin circle went to the Secretariat to hand over a memorandum to the personal assistant of the Chief Minister Mukul Sangma.
Speaking to media persons, HYC Secretary, Nongstoin Circle, Chesterwell Kharbani said that he have submitted a memorandum to the personal assistant of the Chief Minister Mukul Sangma on the under-development of Nongstoin and step-motherly treatment of the government despite 41 years of its existence as a district headquarters.

The memorandum submitted to the Chief Minister also mentioned about the facilitation of agriculture, sports infrastructure, and health care services for the people of the district.
Other demand includes implementation of ILP, strict Residential Permit and Trading Licences, Prohibition and Detention of Benami Transaction, State Permanent Residential Registration Act and Voting in the place of Origin to tackle the un-check and unabated flow of illegal immigrants into the state.
The HYC members march is a strive to safeguard the Khasi indigenous population from being swayed by the people from outside, Kharbani said
The HYC members left Nongstoin on Aug 22 at 8 am and spent the night at Mairang. They left Mairang on Aug 23 and having walked for miles, they spent the night at Mawngap in East Khasi Hills district. They left Mawngap early today morning and reached Shillong on Thursday afternoon.
Recently, a black flag protest and a sit-in-demonstration was staged by the HYC in the city as a mark of protest against the refusal of Chief Minister Mukul Sangma and his cabinet colleagues to discuss the Council’s demands.