SHILLONG, June 27 -- The Jaintia Students' Union (JSU) has opposed the demand of the Synjuk Ki Dorbar Shnong Shangpung to shift the PWD North Division from Jowai, a district headquarter to Shangpung Village in West Jaintia Hills."We condemned the Synjuk for making such a groundless demand," said the President of JSU central body, Lawyerson War said in a statement issued on Saturday.

On the claim of the Synjuk that the Division is looking only after the Laskein block, War however said would this mean that the head office will have to be shifted to Shangpung, where the PWD sub-division office is also located at present?.

"Where will such demand to shift head offices from the district headquarters take us. This will only create unnecessary...