Fee not paid even once', 2,831 street vendors lose their licence

The civic body had given them 30 days to clear the dues

- Mandeep Kaur Narula

CHANDIGARH: The municipal corporation (MC) on Wednesday cancelled the licences of as many as 2,831 street vendors for not paying vending fee for even once since their registrations, thus, resulting in a total collective pending amount to a whooping ₹47 crore. The move came after the vendors failed to respond to a one-month ultimatum issued by the corporation.

The city has 10,903 registered street vendors in all, divided into three categories - street, essential and non-essential, who were registered in a survey in 2016. They were allotted vending sites for five years and had to pay a monthly licence fee. Of these, only 3,595 are paying up their dues on a regular basis.

As many as 7,308 registered street vendors owe a whopping ₹75 crore as fee to the civic body as of September 18, 2024, and at least 2,352 vendors have not paid the fee even once.