Chandigarh MC to cancel licence of street vendors not paying fee regularly

With only 3,596 out of the total 11,000 registered street vendors paying regular fees to the Chandigarh municipal corporation, authorities have decided to cancel licence of the defaulting vendors. New committee should be formed or vigilance inquiry should be conducted to make Chandigarh encroachment free.” The action came after BJP councillor Saurabh Joshi once again raised the issue of mushrooming unregistered vendors and authorities’ blind eye to encroachments across the city. “After the last House meeting, the enforcement wing conducted several anti-encroachment drives but the sad part is that vendors who are paying regular fees are suffering, while illegal vendors are proliferating in markets across the entire city due to the rampant corruption in the enforcement department that does not remove them,” he said during the monthly House meeting on Thursday. New committee should be formed or vigilance inquiry should be conducted to make Chandigarh encroachment free.” Municipal commissioner-cum-deputy commissioner Vinay Pratap Singh, who is chairman of the TVC, said, “Due to some reasons, no meeting of the committee has been held in the past 16 months.