Meghalaya CM Unveils ‘P.A. Sangma Fellowship’ For Legal & Policy Research 

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The Meghalaya Chief Minister – Conrad Sangma today unveiled the P.A. Sangma Fellowship for Legal and Policy Research at Yojana Bhawan, in presence of the Law Minister – James K Sangma, Chief Secretary – R V Suchiang, Secretary of Law – C.V.D. Diengdoh and Prof Sony Pellissery from National Law School of India University, Bengaluru.

Speaking during the inaugural session, Sangma noted that the concept of having the fellowship and research based policymaking has been lacking for a very long time.

“Though we have bureaucrats and legislators we are not experts in a number of minor details that are very important for proper law making and the larger goal is to ensure that the people are put first by this unique collaboration from the Judiciary and the Legislative side for the larger interest of the people,” he said.

The Chief Minister added that research-based policymaking, will ensure better framework, resulting in a better foundation for the overall effectiveness of the system.

“This programme is part of the larger goal, ensuring that the entire system alongwith the capacity of every individual improves with time,” he added.

During the programme, Sangma remarked that his father – Late P A Sangma was a person with a very tall personality with diverse background in Law, Journalism, Teaching and Politics.

“He was a person who had an understanding of Law and had experience both in the Judiciary as a person who had been practicing Law himself and had experience in policymaking as a Legislator after he entered Politics so it is only befitting that this fellowship programme is named after him,” he added.

Besides, the Law Minister mentioned said that the launch is also the realization of the vision of seeing the boosting of the governance and the student engagements as well as capacity building exercises of the officers of the State.

“Although the State of Meghalaya is small there are socio-economic challenges, challenges in streamlining public services, challenges on ensuring representation and participation and most importantly the challenge of catering governance to the people in a just, timely and impartial manner,” he said.

He added that the fellowship has been established to highlight the difficulties and work on solutions to address them.

“It takes a demanding situation and one stepping-up to complete tasks to handle and achieve the goals,” – he added.

The Minister further noted that “governance is a slow process from research and consultations to implementation and monitoring while public expectations are highly dynamic and varied and keeping up with this needs capacity building from time to time to also keep up with evolving and changing times and environments.”

Taking to Twitter, the Meghalaya CM wrote “Privileged to launch along with our Hon’ble Law Minister, Sh. @JamesSangma1, the P A Sangma Fellowship for Legal & Policy Research in collaboration with the National Law School of India University, Bengaluru.

“This Fellowship programme will create an opportunity for young and bright individuals to work as research fellows to assist the Departments of the State Government on various policy initiatives and legal reforms. It is endearing for @JamesSangma1 & I to have the Fellowship in honour of our father (L) Sh. P A Sangma who in his tenure had come up with many unique reforms for inclusive governance. I wish the 4 fellows the best in their new task & I wish all the success to the Fellowship” – he further added.

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