Civic body set to allot sites to 1,692 vendors from tomorrow

CHANDIGARH: The UT municipal corporation, is all set to kick-off the process to reallocate vendors from December 28. In its first phase, the vendors will be resettled in their respective markets where they are already working, and they won't be sent anywhere else.

As per information, there are around 5863 sites in the first phase in various markets and other earmarked locations, out of which around 1692 registered vendors will be allotted the sites. All these are registered vendors and thus they will be allotted sites on priority. The remaining sites will be allotted in the second phase.

“The entire process of draw of lots to allot the vending sites in various areas will take around 10 days. After the removal of the vendors from the existing sites, the area will be vacated, and MC will take over the locations. After that if somebody was found sitting there or encroaching the area, Rs 10,000 penalty will be imposed on the person,” said an official.

As per the planned strategy, after completing the first phase, the civic body authority will reallocate the vendors in the second phase, where the sites are less as compared to the number of vendors. In such cases, the vendors will be reallocated in nearby areas, sectors from their existing locations. “We have around 2569 vendors for the second phase, therefore, after completing the first phase, we will see that how many vending sites are left. We are quite hopeful to reallocate the vendors at financially viable locations, because in many cases, numbers of vendors have turned out defaulters due to non-payment of the fee to the MC and thus they are not being considered in this initial exercise,” the sources revealed. The MC has decided to consider only those vendors, who have been depositing their monthly fee regularly. The vendors, those have deposited their fee by August can also be considered, but in the later phases.