Ensure strict enforcement of cleanliness rules for street vendors, officials told

Following strict orders issued by Municipal Corporation (MC) Commissioner Aaditya Dachalwal to ensure cleanliness across the city, tehbazaari and health branch officials of the civic body have been directed to ensure strict enforcement of cleanliness rules issued for street vendors.

MC Joint Commissioners Vineet Kumar and Ankur Mahindroo conducted a meeting with health and tehbazaari branch officials in this regard at the MC’s Zone D office in Sarabha Nagar on Thursday.

Assistant Commissioner Gurpal Singh, tehbazaari superintendents, corporation sanitation officers (CSO), chief sanitary inspectors (CSI) and sanitary inspectors were among others present.

The officials concerned have been directed to ensure that the street vendors put up dustbins/receptacles for wet and dry waste around their vends and no garbage/waste should be dumped in the open, especially around their vends. They should hand over the garbage to waste collectors or dump the same at designated sites (transfer stations) only after closing down their vends at night. They must also refrain from burning waste, spitting, urinating in public spaces or using banned single-use plastic items at their stalls.

Failure to enforce cleanliness in their respective areas would also invite action against the officials concerned.

Recently, MC Commissioner Aaditya Dachalwal issued an order wherein the street vendors were directed to ensure dustbins/receptacles and cleanliness around their vends otherwise challan of up to Rs 2,000 could be issued against violators. Further, an FIR could also be lodged against adamant repeated violators.

The officials concerned of the health and tehbazaari wing of the civic body had been directed to work in coordination and move to the field on a regular basis. Stern action should be taken against the violators.

Intensify drive against illegal slaughtering

Health branch officials have further been directed to intensify the drive against illegal slaughtering. Besides issuing challans and destroying illegally slaughtered meat, the officials had been directed to seal meat shops if owners fail to stop illegal slaughtering.

The meat shop owners should be directed to get the meat slaughtered from the modern slaughterhouse of the MC on Hambran Road.

Ludhiana