Panchkula MC forms new town vending panel

Sanjay Bumbroo

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Tribune News Service

Panchkula, August 24

The Panchkula Municipal Corporation has formed a new Town Vending Committee. The civic body has also cancelled the draw to be held at the Sector 12 community centre here today to allot sites to the vendors.

A notice to cancel the draw was issued by the Deputy Municipal Commissioner.

The street vendors were to be allotted sites in Sectors 2, 4, 8, 12, 15 and 19.

No information has been provided in the notice about when the draw will be held.

There is also confusion among the MC officials over removal of the street vendors without holding a draw. As per the survey list, vendors residing in Panchkula were to be allotted sites on priority basis through the draw. However, as the draw has not been held, the work of allotting sites hangs in balance.

The Haryana Assembly Speaker and local MLA Gian Chand Gupta had instructed the MC authorities to approve the sites and allot these to the vendors, but the new vending zone is yet to be approved.

Deputy Mayor Sunil Talwar, BJP leader Sanjay Ahuja, former councillors CB Goyal and Lily Bawa were part of the old town vending committee.

BJP councillor Harendra Malik, Jai Kaushik, Rakesh Kumar and Congress councillor Gautam Prasad have been included in the new committee.

Some eminent citizens of the city, including former deputy president of Municipal Council BB Singal, BJP leader SP Gupta, Rajendra Nooniwal, Rohit Sen, JJP worker Mahendra Sharma, will also be a part of the new committee.

Sumit Kumar, Avdesh Kumar, Vipin Kumar, Kiran, Pramod Shah, Rajkumar, Vikas Sethi, and Shahzad Alam will represent the vendor’s side in the committee.

Deputy Commissioner, ACP (Panchkula), ACP (Traffic), Chief Medical Officer (Panchkula), Lead District Manager, SE Municipal Corporation, Fire Station Officer and Labor Inspector have been made official members of the committee.