Meghalaya: KHADC urges non-tribals to apply for vending licence 

Shillong: The executive member (in-charge of trade), Khasi Hills Autonomous District Council (KHADC), Paul Lyngdoh, has urged the non-tribal traders of Meghalaya to come forward and register their businesses and also apply for vending licences from the council.

While speaking to EastMojo, Lyngdoh said, “Under the Non-Tribal Regulation and the rules framed there under in 1959 and subsequently amended in 2019 the KHADC has been legally empowered to make rules for trading by non-tribals. One of the trades that has been flourishing in the past for many decades is the trade of street vending or street hawking but unfortunately in the past many years there has not been any attempt to regulate this particular trade.”

Lyngdoh said that after having gone through in-depth through the various provisions of this act and rules framed under the act. It has now become evident that there is a need to regulate the trade of street vending as is done in the other trades. Hence on October 4, the council came up with the public notice seeking the cooperation of non-tribal traders who are in the business of street vending.