Mayor chairs meeting of Market Welfare Associations representatives
*Commits to resolve all genuine problems of Market Areas*
*Issues related to MCC discussed and early resolution assured*
*Door to Door Garbage collection in market areas to start from April 1st*
*Issues of illegal vending to be dealt with strongly*
Chandigarh, March 23:- Working towards providing better services to the shopkeepers and market areas of city beautiful, the Sh Anup Gupta, Mayor, Chandigarh chaired a meeting of all the Market Welfare Associations here today.
Ms. Anindita Mitra, IAS, Commissioner, Municipal Corporation, Chandigarh, other senior officers of MCC and office bearers of all Market Welfare Associations of Chandigarh, attended the meeting.
During the meeting various issues were raised by the representatives of MWAs including achieving 100% digitally enabled system and creation of QR codes/scanners, vendors of some markets to be digitally enabled and advertisement of G-20 to be allowed free of cost.
The other important issues were also discussed during the meeting i.e. door to door waste collection from MWAs. The MWAs were asked to follow the norms of advertisement control order and use designated space for Advertisement on the SCOs; the issue regarding installation of Fire Safety measuers/equipments in markets at once was also discussed.
The office bearers of Market Welfare Associations discussed the issue of parking facilities in the markets as vacant plots, small neighbourhood parks which are not maintained may be converted into parking of vehicles for public convenience; on the spot e-challaning (collection of penalty and release of seized articles) this will save time as well as will least the damage of the seized articles.
The issue of unauthorized vendors was also discussed and the MWAs demanded that the unauthorized vendors should be removed and registered vendors may be shifted to vending zones besides MWAs be given at least one week’s time before carrying out any drive by enforcement staff for removal of illegal advertisements and issue of removal of illegal mechanics from sector 21, Chandigarh.
The Mayor assured all the Market Welfare Associations to resolve the issues pertaining to the Municipal Corporation Chandigarh at the earliest and take up the issues pertaining to Chandigarh Administration for their early disposal.
