Meghalaya Cabinet approves Shillong Urban Mobility Policy, 2024

Syllad | The Rising MeghalayaFebruary 9, 2024

The State Cabinet on Friday approved the Shillong Urban Mobility Policy, 2024.

Speaking to reporters, Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma said that the Shillong Urban Mobility Policy, 2024 will ensure the mobility in Shillong improves adding it will include aspects of public transportation, creating more walking space, reducing the congestion and creating parking spaces and so on and so forth.

“This policy just gives an outline on how we will approach that and this was clear today by the cabinet. The policy document will guide us and give us the vision on how we would like to improve the overall mobility of the state,” he said.

Sangma said, “It is a process, there is nothing called full implementation. For example, the parking lots of about 3-4 locations have already tendered out and the work will start there. We have about 1200 plus parking spaces for vehicles that are in the pipelines and we expect 50% of that to be completed within this financial year and 50% to be completed in the next financial year. We are also looking at 10-15 kms of walking space.”

The CM informed that the government will also come up with a separate policy for other district headquarters. “We had planned to come up with urban mobility policy and then we realised that Shillong is in a different category altogether so what applies for Shillong will not be applicable for Resubelpara or Nongpoh. Therefore, we will be coming up with a separate policy for the other district headquarters.”