Remove illegal vendors from Sector 17, says HC
- Virtually rapping the authorities concerned for converting tourist attraction Chandigarh into a vending zone.
- The Punjab and Haryana High Court today issued directions for the immediate removal of unregistered vendors from Sector 17 while making it clear that the city’s downtown and Sector 1 to 6 were no-vending zones.
- Directions were also issued for allocating proposed sites to the registered vendors.
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- The Bench also made it clear that only essential service providers described under the Street Vendors (Protection of Livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending) Municipal Corporation Chandigarh Bylaws-2018 will be allowed to operate from Sector 17.
