Gurgaon: Citing security and safety issues, Municipal Corporation of Gurgaon (MCG) commissioner Mukesh Kumar Ahuja has led officials to eliminate all illegal street sellers inside the civic body’s limitations.
In addition, he stated no seller would be permitted to function without a license from MCG.
At an interview on Wednesday, Ahuja led officials to prepare a comprehensive plan to control the operation of street sellers and recover impending fees in the authorised sellers.
Speaking in the meeting, ” he explained that there are 18,670 street sellers in Gurgaon based on some 2018 poll.
According to the street vending plot, across 148 road vending zones have been made from town, from which 29 aren’t operational, ” he explained.
Four agencies have been granted contracts to manage and operate vending zones, however their provisions ended annually.
The bureaus were supposed to publish a charge of Rs 500 per seller per month, but neglected to achieve that.
Ahuja said officials can recognize and eliminate unauthorised sellers and at exactly the identical time recover dues from sellers operating in accordance with the road vending policy.
“In this respect, a committee comprised by former MCG leader Vinay Pratap Singh to research non-collection of charges by over 18,000 licensed sellers has filed its own report to senior officers from Chandigarh,” he explained.
The move comes following councillors raised the dilemma of illegal street vendors working publicly in MCG limits.
Street sellers were allotted spaces due to their own carts.
Now, however, designated vending zones in which 10 packs were permitted to function have 100 packs.
In addition, a number of those vendors sell snacks and food and ditch waste on the street, the councillors had alleged.
Taking serious notice of these offenses, Ahuja said authorities teams must enforce and recover penalties against violators in accordance with the standards.
He explained the significant offenses are associated with use of plastic totes, dropping garbage in public areas, open defecation, waste burning, prohibited commercials, prohibited meat stores and ecological offenses.
“There’s provision of punishment for these offenses, but there’s a need to efficiently execute the challaning and recovery procedure,” he explained.