Meghalaya planning board takes up Shillong traffic snarls

SHILLONG: The

State Planning Board

on Wednesday discussed at length about the growing menace of traffic snarls in

Shillong

city.

Speaking to media persons after the meeting, Planning Board chairman, Lambor Malngiang said that the Board has asked the concerned departments to take measures to

control traffic

in the city besides looking at the idea of constructing link roads in and around the town.

He said that there is a proposal to construct a road from Eastern Air Command in 7th mile towards the Shillong View Point even as he informed that the department is awaiting consent from the Forest and Environment department before kicking off the construction for the road.

"There are also proposals to construct link roads from Laitkor to Laitlyngot, Umlyngka to Cantonment area and Sawlad to Umpling," he said.

"The government is serious about easing the traffic problem in the city for once and all and hence several proposals for roads are in the pipeline," he said.

Meanwhile, the State Planning Board has directed the concerned departments to go slow as far as implementing various guidelines for those who are operating sawmills and stone crushers in the state.

Talking to media persons after a marathon meeting with various departments, Planning Board chairman, Lambor Malngiang said that the state has already suffered due the ban on coal mining.