Chandigarh
Vendors outside the Church in Sector 19, who have been selling Christmas decorations on the site for the last many years were evicted on Tuesday.
As part of every year’s tradition, the vendors had come to the site with the decoratives packed in sacks to sell them at the footpath. However, due to the rules and orders of the Punjab and Haryana High Court, officials of the Enforcement Wing of the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation did not allow them to sit there.
A vendor, who wanted to remain anonymous, said, “I have been coming here for the last ten years to sell such Christmas decorations. Families that come to the church buy the decorations from us. This is the only time when we earn.” A vendor couple, who had just unloaded their decorative materials on the footpath from an autorickshaw, was asked by the MC officials to pack their products and leave the site, as they were not to allowed to carry out any kind of vending.
“Any such vending is illegal and due to the orders of the court, we can not allow the vendors to carry out their business here. These vendors have not registered themselves,” said an official of the Enforcement Wing. Vehicles of the corporation were permanently stationed there to ensure that the vendors do not carry out vending.
