Anyone encroaching on a public place must be removed and it cannot be allowed that the entire footpath in markets is encroached upon, leaving no space for people to walk, the Delhi High Court said on Monday, adding that the city Nigam to prepare a street vending plan for God. The High Court also directed the Delhi Police to take positive steps to install CCTV cameras in Chandni Chowk area before February 28, failing which the Commissioner of Delhi Police would be present before it.
We have repeatedly issued instructions that it is falling on deaf ears. You are not even taking the same steps as a little finger to do something. We are compelled to pass such orders as nothing is happening. After this order, now these officers will also wake up, said the bench of Justices Vipin Sanghi and Jasmeet Singh. The court was hearing a petition by the Chandni Chowk Sarv Vyapar Mandal, seeking a direction to the authorities to remove illegal hawkers and vendors from the no-hawking and no-squatting area in Chandni Chowk, which was recently redeveloped. Has happened.
Regarding the encroachment by hawkers and vendors in the area, the bench said that the photographs show that these people are leaving no space for people to walk and the entire footpath has been covered and asked who will the people walk? Anyone and everyone who is encroaching must be removed, our direction is very clear. We are not asking you to make any exceptions for the members of the petitioner’s union. You (North MCD) are not understanding the problem. If you take a (street vending) scheme, this situation can be avoided. So get the ball rolling first and work out a plan, Bench said. The bench said that it was trying to fill a void existing in the Street Vendors Act, the law, and said that it does not want all these poor people to be taken away, but with a plan to do things in a proper manner. needed. ,
It cannot be allowed that the entire footpath is covered with encroachers making it impossible for people to walk. Please, for God’s sake please plan and do not communicate at the last minute, the bench said, adding that the MCD does not see any urgency to formulate a plan so that the hawking activity can be organized. On January 20, Justice Sanghi, while listing the case of removal of illegal hawkers, said that all of you are completely wrong in this law, do not know what is happening.
The court directed that experts be immediately nominated without delay in the matter relating to preparation of street vending plans from Shahjanabad Redevelopment Corporation, Delhi School of Planning and IIT Delhi. It asked the Delhi Police to take steps to weed out encroachers and illegal vendors from the area and directed the police and the North MCD to continue their anti-encroachment drive.
During the hearing, the counsel for North MCD told the court that the order to constitute committees in each zone has been passed and information has been sent to all the expert panels regarding preparation of street vending plan. Senior advocate Sanjeev Ralli, representing the petitioner, submitted that despite repeated directions of the court, the Delhi Police has not yet installed 330 CCTV cameras in the area to check encroachment on the area and way and it is a casual approach of the authorities. Used to be.
The court had earlier observed that there was no executive or political will to remove illegal hawkers and vendors from the streets and that except in Lutyens’ Delhi, there was no place in the city that was clear of unauthorized infiltrators.
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