MC to auction 51 sites for car bazaar at Hallo Majra

Ramkrishna Upadhyay   

 Tribune News Service   

Chandigarh, October  15  

While car bazaar dealers are yet to get several facilities,  the Municipal Corporation, Chandigarh, has decided to auction 51 sites at Hallo Majra next  month.    

 Sources said the MC had fixed  Rs 3 lakh as the reserve  price for  50  sites with each having space for 10 cars. It has kept the reserve price at Rs 3.60 lakh for a single site having enough space for 12 car in Hallo Majra. 

An MC official said the auction would be held on November 15 at the community centre in Sector 18. 

Applications have been invited   from dealers  till October  27.   Only residents of Chandigarh are eligible to participate in the auction. 

However, the dealers  opposed the  move.  Gulson Kumar, president of the Car Bazaar Association, said they will boycott  the   auction. He said when the court  issued the order for shifting the car bazaar to Hallo Majra then why  the  MC was auctioning  the sites.   

Gulson Kumar said the car bazaar had been running from Sector 7 for the past 30 years.”The traders have worked hard to establish the car bazar, which has now become the biggest market of North India,” he said. He added that they  were paying Rs 3 lakh for holding the car bazaar   every  week  and get no facilities in return.