SHILLONG, NOV 26:The state government on Wednesday announced stricter rules for official vehicles, aiming to curb misuse of sirens, beacons, and tinted glasses.

Cabinet has approved the proposal to adopt a Standard Operating Procedure (SoP) governing the use of beacons, flashers, sirens, tinted glasses, and similar features in official vehicles. The SoP will clearly define who is authorized to use sirens and beacons, as well as who may… pic.twitter.com/huCLwAoJf9

— Conrad K Sangma (@SangmaConrad) November 26, 2025

“The cabinet has approved the proposall for adopting the Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) in matters of using of beacons, flashers, sirens, tinted glasses etc in official vehicles. In a nutshell what that means is who can use the siren and who cannot use the siren and also who can have tinted glasses and who can have flashers – all of those aspects were discussed and there is a strong feeling among the cabinet that there needs to be a mechanism that would control and limit the use of such kinds of sirens in the entire process,” Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma told reporters after chairing the first-ever cabinet meeting at the Iconic Ward’s Lake here.

He informed that official vehicles of Z+ category will be allowed to use tinted glasses and sirens can be used only by vehicles of police, emergency services and pilot escort vehicles of VVIPs and VIPs.

“Regarding the lights and beacons, we have made it very clear that the red lights and beacons will not be allowed by anybody that is the national law. Flashers that are there being used as substitute again it will only by the specific notification of the transport department. Only those notified by the transport department can use the flashers but that again it can only done once the transport department notifies,” he said adding that his chief minister’s office will also write to the transport department for necessary permission.

Sangma said a committee which is headed by the principal secretary is in place.

“If there are any categories that need to be included this committee headed by principal secretary will be authorized to notify if any individual or category should be included.”

On the use of name plates, the chief minister said the transport department will notify the list of persons who are entitled to use the name plates.

“We are very particular because randomly people have alot of process of putting up name plates which are done in a very random manner hence, this is something we feel needs to be monitored and controlled and therefore, we will be having a system to monitor that.
As I said the transport department will approve who can put and you can’t just randomly put up name plates or flashers as you wish. You have to take permission for that,” he stated while adding that the use of national flag will be as per the flag code of India 2002 and SOPs.

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