Shillong, April 19: Efforts are on to declare Khyndailad as a pedestrian zone and Shillong; partly a non-honking area.
Tourism Minister Paul Lyngdoh on Wednesday told reporters the government is committed to declare Khyndailad as a pedestrian zone.
“Our commitment will be to have at least one pedestrian zone immediately and that is Khyndailad. I also had a meeting with the chief minister and he is fully in line with the need to declare Khyndailad as a pedestrian zone”, he said.
Lyngdoh said some access will be provided to local residents which will be on the basis of car passes but the entire area will be pedestrianized.
The tourism minister said the people who suffered the most in Shillong are the pedestrians as “you have hawkers, you have motorists using every way and there is limited scope for people to walk around”.
The minister said the government has already started declaration of parts of Shillong as no honking zones.
“We are in the process. The district administration and the police are in constant touch and from the tourism department, we already started by declaring Orchid, Umiam as no honking zone and similarly other units of the tourism department will also be declared as no honking zones because the USP of Meghalaya is the serenity, the quiet which is disturbed by loud honking and loud music which sometimes carries beyond permissible hours,” he said.
