Mohali Municipal Corporation forms panel for vendors’ rehabilitation

Sanjay Bumbroo

Tribune News Service

Mohali, August 11

The Mohali Municipal Corporation today constituted the Town Vending Committee to rehabilitate the vendors under the Street Vendors Act.

The committee included representatives of street vendors, police administration, business community and social organisations.

The committee will coordinate between the street vendors and the MC in Mohali and initiate plans for the rehabilitation of the rehri-fari (vendors) holders.

Besides Mayor Amarjit Singh Jiti Sidhu, Senior Deputy Mayor Amrik Singh Somal, councillor Narpinder Singh Rangi and Victor Niholka were present in the meeting.

Divulging details about the committee, Sidhu said he had announced the Town Vending Committee under the powers vested in him by the House.

Members of the committee include councillors Kamalpreet Singh Bani and Jaspreet Singh Gill; DSP (Traffic) Guriqbal Singh; Manjeet Kaur, manager, PNB (Municipal Bhawan); Chief Sanitary Inspector Sarabjit Singh; Jaswinder Sharma, senior advisor, Sarvahitkari Kalyan Society; S Chaudhary of the Mohali Senior Citizens Association; Balkaran Singh Bhaati of Ajit Park Neighborhood Association; Munish Singla of the Mohali Grocery Merchant Association; and street vendors Vijay Kumar, Manjit Singh, Satpal Singh, Parshotam Lal, Maya and Ram Kumari.

Sidhu said the members of the committee should “take up the work diligently and fulfill their responsibilities to ensure the right to earn a living for the vendors”. The Mayor said people of Mohali should also benefit and illegal occupations should be eradicated.

“The Town Vending Committee has been constituted with the participation of the representatives of all the sections,” he said.