Second-hand car bazaar has a new address

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, November 20

The local Municipal Corporation has temporarily shifted the car bazaar from the existing site at Hallo Majra to Mani Majra. The new site is located in front of SCO number 35 to 46. The MC also issued directions to utilise the vacated Hallo Majra site for parking tourist and school buses.

Sharing this information here today, Mayor Davesh Moudgil said he had constituted a 12-member committee under the chairmanship of Anil Kumar Dubey, councillor, which placed its report before the general House after visiting various places in the city and considering the grievances of the second-hand car dealers.

After considering the facts and figures, the MC has issued orders for shifting the car bazaar here today.

During a meeting held on July 26 this year, the MC House had recommended shifting of the car bazaar.

The new site at Mani Majra will be allotted to the car dealers at the rate of Rs 7,000, excluding GST, per site every Sunday.

The dealers opposed the Hallo Majra site citing lack of civic amenities.

Gulshan Kumar, president of the Car Bazaar Association, said due to lack of facilities it was not possible for them to run their business from the Hallo Majra site. He said they hoped that the new site would help them revive their business. He added that they had already suffered huge losses in the past one year as not many customers were coming to the Hallo Majra site.

The MC had embarked 50 sites at Hallo Majra for around 502 cars. The decision to shift the car bazaar to Hallo Majra was taken on the directions of the Punjab and Haryana High Court on a petition filed by the owners of showrooms in Sector 7, who submitted that the car bazaar was held every Sunday in the parking space in front of the showrooms, which was adversely affecting their business.