Shillong, Jan. 27 -- Meghalaya BJP leader and cabinet minister, Sanbor Shullai has raised serious concerns at the exorbitant increase in land rent within Shillong Cantonment Area and questions violation of right to equality when compared to adjacent municipal area.
He asserted that there cannot be two different tax structures for cantonment and municipal area.
Shullai recently led a delegation of BJP leaders to New Delhi and met union Minister of State for Defence Sanjay Seth and Director General of Defence Estate Shoba Gupta, and requested the ministry to amend the interim policy and implement 25 per cent of the calculated STR for the existing lessee.
The BJP minister stated that due to the exorbitant increase in rent the matter is pend...