Overview

• High Court-appointed Special Officer Subhasis Chakrawarty directed the East Khasi Hills district administration to begin shifting licensed street vendors from Shillong’s Police Bazar.
• Officials launched a spot verification of 349 hawkers in consultation with municipal bodies and the vendors’ association to finalize the authorised roster.
• Licensed vendors remain permitted to sell only in two daily time windows—12:30 to 2:00 p.m. and 7:30 to 9:00 p.m.—under a July 3 court order.
• Vendor groups have challenged the permit count, with association leader Angela Rangad highlighting fluctuating figures as evidence of unlicensed hawkers.
• The designated relocation site in the Meghalaya Urban Development Authority basement has been contested in court by vendors refusing to move there.