The High Court of Meghalaya has directed the administration to identify, remove and prevent new encroachments of street space in Shillong by illegal street vendors and take legal steps against them.
Further, the court directed the administration to continue to penalise errant vehicle drivers with fine for disobedience to traffic rules and ensure that there is no reduction of available road space. A division bench, comprising Chief Justice Indra Prasanna Mukerji and Justice Wanlura Diengdoh, issued the directives on Friday while hearing a PIL.
“…the scope of the public interest litigation (PIL) has continuously widened and now, it involves identifying street vending areas, relocating areas permitted to be used for street vending, regulation of traffic in general, allocating and relocating parking spaces, clearance of as much road area as possible to allow free movement of vehicles and overall implementing policies and plans to make the capital of Meghalaya-Shillong region a modern, clean and well administered city,” the court said in its order.