Draw to allot locations to vendors tomorrow

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, October 23

The Municipal Corporation has decided to conduct a draw of lots for providing locations to vendors, who have registered and verified themselves during a camp organised for the purpose, on October 25.

About 2,500 vendors, including mobile and those providing essential services in the city besides non-essential vendors of ward number 1, have paid the fee for licence to work. The civic body decided to hold the draw to resolve the differences among vendors on the preferred location.

“The draw will make the entire process fair. There will be no complaints regarding as to who has been given which location,” said MC Additional Commissioner Uma Shankar Gupta.

After the process of allotting locations to non-essential vendors in ward number 1 comprising Sectors 1 to 11, the MC will move on to other wards.

In July last year, the MC had started a survey under the Street Vendors (Protection of Livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending) Act, 2014, with the objective of registering and rehabilitating vendors. The survey had put the number of vendors in the city at around 5,000.

Proper rationing of urban streets and spaces was also a part of the exercise. While the survey was on, the civic body had decided not to displace any street vendor. Due to this, a large number of vendors turned up at the Sector 17 Plaza as well.

The corporation is yet to get clarification from the UT Chief Architect regarding the final number of non-essential vendors in Sectors 17, 19 and 22. Earlier, the Chief Architect had declared nine Sectors, including 17, 22, and 19, as no-vending zones. But councillors asked the Administration to reconsider the same.