Meghalaya Cabinet okays parking policy to regulate street parking in the state

Syllad | The Rising MeghalayaFebruary 27, 2025

The state Cabinet on Wednesday approved the Meghalaya Urban Parking Policy 2025, which seeks to regulate parking of vehicles on the streets and on the roads in all urban areas of the state.

Addressing media persons, Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma said the parking policy has come as part of the larger comprehensive mobility plan which was passed last year in the cabinet specifically for Shillong.

“But this parking policy is for all the growing urban areas in the state. We are hopeful that this will regulate the parkings that take place on the street and on the roads and create a system where certain fees is charged and at the same time, people don’t just park randomly as specific zones will be given in the streets where you can park and where you cannot park,” he explained.

He said that the existing municipal parking areas and parking lots of the urban department will not be disturbed and they will continue as they are as the policy is mainly for on street parkings.

Sangma mentioned that presently, there is no mechanism to take fees for vehicles parking on the road and no mechanism to monitor them.

“Therefore, the policy is being done in consultation with the police, the urban affairs department, transport department and also the local headmen. This will be done in a way where we will be dividing the city into different zones and the local locality people will be very much involved in order to ensure that this is implemented in a proper manner,” he said.

The CM also informed that the state government is ready to have PPP mode with different organizations and localities for utilizing their land as parking spaces.

“So this policy will facilitated that procedure also where if some organization or the Dorbar or the development committee has a land and they would like to convert that into a parking lot, the government will support them financially to create that parking a lot and work in tandem with them to provide more parking space in the city,” he added.

Asked, Sangma said that the government will annually generate Rs 40 crore as revenue from such parking fees.