Staff Reporter

Shillong, March 19: The state government has set a new target to complete the new Assembly building before the end of this year.

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“We have already put pressure that it (Assembly building) should be completed before the end of this year,” Deputy Chief Minister in-charge PWD (Buildings) Prestone Tynsong said.

He said construction is going on and the final approval of the new dome design is awaited from the two Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) – IIT Roorkee and IIT Guwahati.

“Once the approval is done by these two IITs, we will go ahead with the construction of the new design,” Tynsong added.

The dome of the under-construction new building of the Meghalaya Legislative Assembly had collapsed on May 22, last year.

On March 13, Assembly Speaker Thomas A Sangma had conducted an inspection to the construction site and said that the implementing agencies have been asked to remove debris (caused by the dome collapsed) by April 15.

“That was the only deadline we have set today because without which the work cannot start and without the approval of the new design work cannot start. Only when the work starts then we can set a timeline (for completion of the new Assembly building),” he had said.

Stating that the progress of work was found satisfactory, Sangma had informed that the left wing and the right wing of the new Assembly building are almost completed.

Earlier, demands were made by several quarters for a CBI probe into the dome collapse.