Overview

• More than 7,000 people joined a rally in Tura backing GHADC employees seeking release of long-pending salaries.
• Employees represented by the Non-Gazetted Employees’ Association say 44 months of wages remain unpaid after a months-long sit-in.
• Chief Minister Conrad K. Sangma announced a plan to regularise autonomous council salaries from November 1 with five months of arrears to be cleared beforehand.
• The NGEA rejected an administration offer of five months’ salary in return for calling off the agitation and reaffirmed its demand for full dues.
• Protest leaders signalled plans to petition national authorities and highlighted additional demands, including service and finance rules, passage of the Garo Customary Law, and a separate electoral roll.