The Tribune
CHANDIGARH, June 1 — Mr Satya Pal Jain, local member of the dissolved Lok Sabha, has urged the Chandigarh Administration to start issuing photo identity cards to footpath workers whose names appear in the survey conducted by the Administration a couple of months ago.
In a written statement, Mr Jain expressed his concern over the delay in issuing the cards. Mr Jain said that he met the Administrator, Lieut-Gen BKN Chhibber (retd), and the Adviser to the Administrator, Mrs Vineeta Rai, today and discussed the issue with them separately. He also submitted a detailed letter to Mrs Rai.
Mr Jain said that in spite of this decision, the officials of the Administration and the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation had been harassing footpath vendors, removing their belongings and imposing heavy fines on them, besides not releasing their goods for days together. In the absence of any job avenues in government departments, these vendors were engaged in self-employment and the Administration should encourage them rather than harass them, Mr Jain said.
He said the Administration should not go back on its commitment. Some vested interests, he said, were trying to sabotage the earlier decision of the council."I shall be going to Delhi shortly and apprise the Home Minister, Mr L.K. Advani, of the whole affair," he concluded.
CHANDIGARH, June 1 — Mr Satya Pal Jain, local member of the dissolved Lok Sabha, has urged the Chandigarh Administration to start issuing photo identity cards to footpath workers whose names appear in the survey conducted by the Administration a couple of months ago.
In a written statement, Mr Jain expressed his concern over the delay in issuing the cards. Mr Jain said that he met the Administrator, Lieut-Gen BKN Chhibber (retd), and the Adviser to the Administrator, Mrs Vineeta Rai, today and discussed the issue with them separately. He also submitted a detailed letter to Mrs Rai.
Mr Jain said that in spite of this decision, the officials of the Administration and the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation had been harassing footpath vendors, removing their belongings and imposing heavy fines on them, besides not releasing their goods for days together. In the absence of any job avenues in government departments, these vendors were engaged in self-employment and the Administration should encourage them rather than harass them, Mr Jain said.
He said the Administration should not go back on its commitment. Some vested interests, he said, were trying to sabotage the earlier decision of the council."I shall be going to Delhi shortly and apprise the Home Minister, Mr L.K. Advani, of the whole affair," he concluded.
