Municipal Corporation committed to address all vendor related issuesKumar Madhukar
Chandigarh, July 6:- The Town Vending Committee (TVC) has approved allotment of vacant sites to those vendors who are depositing their vending fee regularly and development of Model Vending Zones in 10 vending zones as per the proposal of Chief Architect, Chandigarh Administration. This was decided in the 32nd meeting of TVC convened under the Chairpersonship of Ms. Anindita Mitra, IAS, Commissioner, Municipal Corporation, Chandigarh-cum-Chairperson, Town Vending Committee here today and attended by other members of TVC namely Sh. Anish Garg, Sh. Ravinder Singh, Sh. Mukesh Giri, Mrs. Sabra and Mrs. Chanchal Rani.
The meeting was also attended by councilors of MCC as special invitees namely Smt. Anju Katyal, Sh. Manoj Sonkar, Smt. Nirmla, office bearers of Chandigarh Beyopar Mandal Sh. Charanjiv Singh, Sh. Sanjiv Chadha, Sh. Kailash Jain and Sh. Naresh Kumar alongwith other officers from SP Traffic, Chief Architect, UT, Chandigarh and Superintendent of Police, Chandigarh. The Town Vending Committee also delegated the powers to Additional Commissioner/Joint Commissioner, MCC to cancel the licenses of the registered street vendors who are defaulters after following the due procedure as per Bye-Laws.
In case of Sector 42-C vending Zone, the TVC has approved to shift those registered street vendors who are selling cooked/fried non- vegetarian fast food to the proposed adjoining vending zones. It was also directed by the Chairperson TVC that Vendor Cell & Enforcement Wing will together track those registered street vendors of the same vending zone, who were allotted vending sites but not sitting at their allotted sites. The Town Vending Committee has rejected the request of three vendors for change of category from ESP to NESP vendors in Sector 22, Chandigarh as it is beyond the purview of Bye-laws. In addition, Ex-Post-Facto approval was granted for allotment of vending site No. 87 to a person with disabilityin Sector 22, Chandigarh on humanitarian and compassionate ground by the Town Vending Committee.
The Town Vending Committee has taken a landmark decision for the socially marginalized community by approving the waiver of 25% in monthly street vending fee to the vendors who are transgender and living with HIV/AIDS. Also, the Town Vending Committee has considered & approved the case pertaining to issuance of vending license to the wife of deceased Street vendor who was surveyed but died before his registration and also a case in addition to two cases of Persons with Disabilities on compassionate and humanitarian ground.
In order the curb the menace of mushrooming of unauthorized vending, the Town Vending Committee has approved the filing of criminal proceedings against unauthorized vendors through the area sub inspector of Enforcement Wing.She also directed the representatives of SSP Law Order to assist in enforcing unauthorized vending during late evening and night hours. The Chairperson TVC urged the representatives of Street Vendors, Vyapar Mandal, Resident and Market Associations to support in making city clean and free from Single Use Plastic usage and zero waste free city and getting Chandigarh to secure prominent position in Swachh Sarvekshan 2023.
