Almost every published Shillong Teer result, including the ones on this site, traces back to a single body: the Khasi Hills Archery Sports Association, almost always abbreviated as KHASA. It is the registered sports association that runs the daily archery sessions at Polo Ground in Shillong, supervises the counting after each round, and signs off the number that becomes the official result. If you have ever read a sentence on the internet that begins with "the conducting body for Shillong Teer", that body is KHASA.
This article walks through KHASA as an institution: how it is structured, what it actually does day to day, the laws it operates under, what it can and cannot decide on its own, and how the wider Teer ecosystem in Meghalaya relates to it. It is written for readers who follow Shillong Teer regularly and want a clear picture of who is on the other end of the daily declaration, rather than for a casual visitor.
This article is informational. It explains the structure and role of a sports association under Meghalaya state law. It does not constitute legal advice. Anyone with a specific licensing, regulatory, or registration question about Teer should consult a qualified legal professional or the relevant Meghalaya state authority.
KHASA is a registered sports association based in Shillong, Meghalaya. It is a non-governmental body, formed under the rules that govern sports associations in the state, and it is recognised by the Meghalaya state government as the conducting body for the daily Teer archery sessions at Polo Ground. Its membership is made up of archery clubs from across the Khasi Hills region, each of which fields archers in the daily rounds. The senior officials of the association supervise the counting, certify the count, and authorise the public announcement of each round's result. The state taxes the activity. KHASA conducts it. Those two roles are kept separate, and that separation is one of the structural features that gives the framework its credibility.
KHASA does not operate in a regulatory vacuum. Two pieces of Meghalaya state legislation together define the perimeter within which the association is allowed to function, and any conducting activity it carries out has to fit inside that perimeter.
Together these two Acts define what KHASA may and may not do. They give KHASA the authority to register member clubs, organise daily rounds, supervise the count, and declare the result for Shillong Teer. They also bind KHASA to operating only at approved grounds, only with registered clubs and archers, and only under the documented counting procedure that the 2018 Act lays out. Our deeper piece on the Meghalaya Amusements Act walks through both laws in detail.
KHASA is best understood as a federation, not as a single hierarchical organisation. Its real working unit is the member archery club. A member club is itself a registered local body, typically organised around a particular village, locality, or community, and it carries its own roster of archers. Each member club is responsible for the training and conduct of its archers, the maintenance of its equipment, and the day-to-day discipline of its own membership.
On any given game day, archers from a number of member clubs assemble at Polo Ground to participate in the round. Which clubs participate, in what numbers, and under what schedule, is coordinated by KHASA itself, in line with the operational requirements of the 2018 Act. A single club rarely fields enough archers to make up an entire round on its own; the structure relies on multiple clubs participating together. This federated structure is one of the reasons no single individual or club can unilaterally influence the outcome of a round: the archery is genuinely a multi-party event.
The visible part of KHASA's work happens in a window of about an hour each afternoon, Monday through Saturday. The full activity stretches across more of the day than that, but the part that the wider audience sees is concentrated around the two declared rounds.
A typical game day at Polo Ground unfolds in roughly the following sequence:
Once the announcement is made, the number enters the historical archive that KHASA itself maintains, and is propagated through the public information channels (licensed counters, official communications, and result-aggregator sites). Our piece on how the Shillong Teer result is declared walks through the counting and sign-off process in more detail.
A casual reader might assume the count is simply a clerical exercise: archers shoot, someone counts arrows, the number is announced. The sign-off step is what converts a tentative count into an official declaration, and it is the moment at which KHASA's authority is most clearly exercised.
Three distinct groups touch the count before sign-off: the counting officials themselves, the club observers, and the senior official on duty. Each acts as a check on the others. The counting officials cannot finalise a count that the club observers dispute. The senior official cannot sign off until the count is agreed. The structure is deliberately not single-source, because a single-source count would be open to error in a way that the multi-party version is not. This is exactly the kind of small institutional detail that explains why a Shillong Teer number, once declared, is treated as the official record for that round and is not subsequently rewritten by anyone else.
KHASA is a non-government body but it operates inside a state-defined frame. The relationship between the association and the state is best thought of as one of recognition and accountability rather than of ownership.
KHASA's authority is narrow and specific. There are several things it explicitly does not do, and it is worth knowing them because misunderstandings of KHASA's role circulate widely online.
The practical answer is that everything about how Shillong Teer works in practice traces back to KHASA's role and the framework it operates inside. The fact that there is a daily declared number at all is a function of KHASA running the rounds. The fact that the number is treated as official is a function of KHASA's sign-off and of the legal recognition the state gives that sign-off. The fact that the number is not subject to revision by third parties is a function of how the counting and sign-off process is structured.
The wider answer is that understanding KHASA is part of understanding why Shillong Teer is treated as a licensed sport in Meghalaya rather than as an informal pastime. The framework around it is not improvised. It is the product of a registered association working under a specific state legal framework, with a documented operational procedure that has been refined over many years. The next time you read a two-digit number on this site, or on any other Teer information site, that number sits at the end of a long, very specific chain that begins with archers from member clubs assembling at Polo Ground.
Several of our long-form pieces cover related ground in more depth. Our piece on the Khasi archery tradition covers the wider cultural background to the sport that KHASA conducts. Our walk through the Meghalaya Amusements Act covers the two governing Acts in detail. Our analysis of what counts as an official Teer result explains the two-layered authority structure that KHASA sits inside. And our note on Them Marwet covers the corresponding ground for Khanapara Teer, which is conducted by a different association under the same wider legal framework.
KHASA stands for the Khasi Hills Archery Sports Association. It is the registered sports body that conducts Shillong Teer at Polo Ground in Shillong, Meghalaya.
No. KHASA is a registered sports association, not a government department. It operates under the framework set by the 1982 and 2018 Acts but is not part of the state government. The state regulates and taxes the activity; KHASA conducts it.
No. KHASA conducts only Shillong Teer at Polo Ground. The other three counters are conducted by separate registered associations at their own state-approved grounds. KHASA has no authority over their rounds or their declared results.
KHASA is the conducting body for an active daily sporting event and is not set up as a tourist-facing or public-information service. Members of the public with specific concerns are best routed through the state Taxation Department channels in Meghalaya, which is the regulator KHASA reports to.
Member clubs go through a registration process administered by KHASA in accordance with the 2018 Regulation Act. Registration requires the club to satisfy KHASA's internal eligibility criteria and the operational rules for participating in daily rounds. Only registered clubs may field archers at Polo Ground.
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