Chandigarh municipal corporation to issue passes to all fruit, vegetable vendors

Deepak Yadav | Updated: Apr 24, 2020, 06:32 IST

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CHANDIGARH: The Chandigarh municipal corporation has started issuing passes to all registered and unregistered vegetable and fruit vendors of the city, enabling all the 550-odd vegetable and fruit vendors to sell their items, said a civic official on Thursday.
The official, however, made it clear that the vendors will be able to hawk their stuff only in the assigned areas. Since the Chandigarh Police personnel would be randomly checking their passes, these vendors would not be allowed to move to other sectors or areas, he said.
The decision has been taken to keep a record of the vendors moving on the city roads, as also to maintain vendor-resident ratio, so that their number does not exceed the required level in any area.
When contacted, municipal commissioner K K Yadav said, “Out of these approximately 550 vegetable and fruit vendors, around 200 are registered vendors holding licences issued by the corporation. Therefore, the process of issuing area-wise passes to them has started from Thursday. As for unregistered vendors, they will be first identified throughout the city and then passes will be issued to them specifying their areas for vending. The move will more streamline the system of vending of vegetable and fruit vending in the city.”
According to him, these passes will have all required information about the vendors, including name, address, area assigned to them for vending, timings etc. Police personnel deployed at nakas in sectors or other areas will check the passes of such vendors.
As per information, different teams of the enforcement department of the civic body will identify the unregistered vendors, and orders in this regard have already been issued to the department. As a sector-wise survey is going on, after identification, these unregistered vendors will be assigned specific areas across the city.