Apni Mandi and Day Market Committee meeting held
Chandigarh, September 16:- A meeting of Apni Mandi and Day market committee, Municipal Corporation Chandigarh was held here today under the chairpersonship of Smt. Chanderawati Shukla and attended by other members of committee namely Sh. Rajesh Kumar, Sh. Jagtar Singh, Smt. Sunita Dhawan, Smt. Kamla Sharma, Sh. Gurpreet Singh Dhillon, Smt. Heera Negi (Special invitee) and concerned officers of MCC.
During the meeting various issues were discussed and the following decisions were taken:
The committee members asked the concerned officers to explore the feasibility of shifting Apni Mandi and Day market of sector 50 to sector 63 (open space near V-5 road) and also demarcate the site within a week. Initially this day market will run departmentally and will be added in Zone list for draw of lot in next year after seeing the response of day market of sector 63.
The committee decided and directed the Apni mandi officials to ensure that only farmers having proper ID may be allowed to sit in their space and enforcement staff will remove illegal vendors except authorized farmers to sit in Apni Mandi sites.
The committee has invited some vendors of day market sites for hearing their grievances including no public toilet and water tanker facilities in the mandi due to which vendors as well as general public feels inconvenience. The committee asked the concerned officials to ensure proper water facility as well as public toilet system be provided in each day market site.
The Committee also decided to start day market at sector 37 on Sunday and at Maloya near EWS houses on Monday. The committee also decided that these day market sites may be allotted through draw of lots as per previous practice.
The committee also decided that one enforcement inspector should be deployed for proper enforcement of Apni Mandi and Day market sites.
