Remove illegal vendors from Sector 17, says HC

Chandigarh | Friday | 18th October, 2019

Summary:

Directions were also issued for allocating proposed sites to the registered vendors. Available information suggests there are 641 registered vendors in Sector 17 alone. Giving the break-up, the MC told the Bench that 160 unregistered vendors from Sector 17, 300 from Sector 19 and 350 from Sector 32 were removed. Senior advocate Puneet Bali added that Sector 17 was declared a no-vending zone in 2017, but the UT Administration did not remove the vendors. After years of slumber, the MC had on September 10 told the Bench that it would remove the unauthorised and unregistered vendors within a month..