Meghalaya govt announces re-opening of religious places from June 14

Syllad | The Rising MeghalayaJune 5, 2020

The state government has announced its decision to allow re-opening of places of worship across the state from June 14.

The decision was taken at a meeting convened by the Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma with leaders of different religious organizations on Friday.

“We have decided to allow places of worship to re-open from June 14, a notification in this regard of which will be issued tomorrow,” Deputy Chief Minister Prestone Tynsong told reporters after the meeting.

Tynsong informed that the draft standard operating procedures (SOPs) are in place and will be circulated to all religious organizations after fine tuning is being done.

“We still have to improve on few more clauses and the exercise will be completed by today itself,” he said.  

Asked, the deputy chief minister said that the religious leaders will have to reach out to their members and believers on the need to understand that protocols have to be strictly followed in totality.