SHILLONG, APR 28: A day after the Governor has approved the Meghalaya Official Languages Ordinance, 2026, giving official status to Khasi and Garo alongside English, the state government is all set to frame rules for its implementation.

Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, deputy chief minister Prestone Tynsong said, “Let me reply, I think right from MDA government – I and now MDA government 2, we have taken a very important and historic decision in our journey serving the people and one of them recently, we have taken a very good decision meeting the aspiration of the people of the entire state be it Garo and be it Khasi and Jaintia.”

Explaining the shift from ‘associate official’ to ‘official’, he added, “Ultimately when we took this decision, we found that yes why associate official and why not official instead of officiate then we ultimately decided that it should be official languages ordinance.”

Tynsong said the ordinance is now in force after being notified. “I am so happy to tell you that yesterday, the Governor has approved the Meghalaya Official Languages Ordinance, 2026 and it has been published in the Gazette of Meghalaya and it has come into force,” he said.

He said the next step is to operationalise it.

“Now very soon we are going to prepare the rules of this very ordinance and then ultimately we will also start using these state official languages,” Tynsong stated.

The ordinance will be placed before the Assembly for regularisation during the autumn session.

“Yes, the ordinance will come back to the Assembly for regularisation in the month of August-September during the upcoming autumn session of the Assembly,” he said.