MCC conducts final draw of lot for Street vendors under NESP Category

Chandigarh, December 4:- The Municipal Corporation Chandigarh today conducted final draw of lot for street vendors under Non Essential Service Providers (NESP) category successfully.

The draw of lot was conducted under the supervision of Sh. Anil Kumar Garg, Additional Commissioner, Sh. Tejdeep Singh Saini, PCS as Judicial Megistrate, Sh. Vivek Trivedi, Social Development Officer, NULM, Sh. Sunil Dutt, Incharge, Enforcement wing of MCC, Smt. Sangeeta Vardhan, Town Vending Committee member and other concerned officials of MCC. Approximate 500 street vendors took part in the draw of lot held in the MCC office premises, here today.

The draw of lot held in three categories i.e. Re-draw for those 349 vendors, whose sites have been cancelled due to non feasibility of sites. 417 street vendors, who were lost during phase-3 draw of lot and 263 street vendors, who have cleared their dues upto 30^th November, 2019.

Sh. K.K. Yadav, IAS, Commissioner, Municipal Corporation Chandigarh said here today that all the NESP street vendors, who failed to clear their dues upto 30^th November, 2019, the MCC has cancelled their license of vending in Chandigarh.

He also appealed to all the Non Essential Service Providers (NESP) Street Vendors to shift to their allotted sites on or before 5^th December failing which, the MCC will remove unauthorized vendors and confiscate their products besides initiating legal action against them.

Meanwhile, a meeting of precautionary measures to be taken from 6^th December to remove the unauthorized vendors from non-vending zones was held in the conference room of MCC under the chairmanship of Sh. K.K. Yadav, IAS, Commissioner, MCC and attended by Sh. Mandeep Singh Brar, IAS, Deputy Commissioner, Chandigarh, Mrs. Nilambari Jagdale, Senior Superintendent of Police, Chandigarh and other senior officers of UT Police and MCC were present during the meeting.