By Our Reporter
SHILLONG: The hawker’s community in Shillong while welcoming the State Government’s decision to implement the proposed hawker’s policy in the State, have expressed their intention to be part of the policy making process.
Speaking to The Shillong Times here on Tuesday, D Suiam, general secretary of Shillong Road Side Hawkers’ Association, said, “The policy would certainly help the lot of the hawkers in the city.”
Urban Affairs Minister Ampareen Lyngdoh had recently announced the government’s plan to come up with a hawkers’ policy to streamline the vendors who set up their business on the road side in different areas of the city thereby adding to the congestion on the narrow roads of the city.
Suiam was all praises for the Urban Affairs Minister for paying attention to the plight of hawkers, saying, “Going by the performance of the Minister we are quite sure that the policy would see the light of the day soon.”
The proposed policy, besides defining the role of the government with regards to the hawkers’ issue, would also talk about creation of certain demarcated areas in the city which would be marked as hawker-free zone.
