MCB gives nod to set up stalls outside shops

Bathinda, October 18

The Municipal Corporation Bathinda (MCB) has given an approval to shopkeepers for using the eight feet footpath outside their shops to put up stalls in the festival season till Diwali.

However, the civic body has issued instructions that after the festival, no shopkeeper would be allowed to do so. 

Strict action will be taken against those who use more than eight feet path outside their shops for setting stalls. 

Bathinda (Urban) MLA Sarup Chand Singla and MCB officials today held a meeting with shopkeepers ahead of the festival season at the Municipal Corporation meeting hall.

Apart from Singla, Mayor Balwant Rai Nath, MCB Commissioner Anil Garg, Joint Commissioner Kamal Kant Goyal, SP H Nanak Singh and other officials were present in the meeting.

The MCB gave the approval regarding setting up of stalls in the meeting. 

Sarup Chand Singla told the MCB officials to instruct the tehbazari wing to give relaxation to the shopkeepers till Diwali.

Shopkeepers were also told to install CCTV cameras and those who have already installed them, should make sure that they are working properly. 

They also instructed the shopkeepers to report if any MCB official or policeman troubled them ahead of Diwali as strict action would be taken in this regard.

The traffic scenario during the festival season was also discussed and it was decided that no vehicle would be allowed to enter Dhobi Bazaar and appropriate arrangements for parking would be made. Shopkeepers also expressed their grievances to MCB officials regarding garbage lying in the market, parking of vehicles, vends in markets and traffic chaos faced by customers. 

They said the MCB had constructed a parking lot at the old school near the AC market on Mall Road but cars were not properly parked there.