KSU continues picketing in Meghalaya

SHILLONG, March 7 ? Banks, financial institutions and attendance in Government offices continued to be affected Thursday in the East and West Khasi Hills and Ri-bhoi districts of Meghalaya in view of the two-day picketing by Khasi Students Union (KSU) to press their demands, official sources said. They said that banks, post offices, treasury offices and telecom department remained closed. Attendance in the State Secretariat, Deputy Commissioner?s Office was negligible despite the State Government issuing ?No work, no pay? warning, the sources said. Chief Secretary J Tayeng said non-attendance was recorded and departmental proceedings would be initiated against those employees who failed to report office. The demand of the KSU, which started picketing since Wednesday, included termination of the services of the chairman and secretary of Meghalaya Board of Secondary Education in view of the recent ?lack? of question papers, judicial enquiry into the killing of three suspected Hyniewtrep National Liberation Council militants by police at Umkaliar on February 19 and resumption of dialogue with the Union on its charter of demands. There was no report of untoward incident during the picketing, the sources said.