The old game of illegal recovery has started once again in the vegetable market near Loghi Club in BRS Nagar. Here about 150 hawkers are being forcibly charged from 200 to 300 rupees every day. Shopkeepers allege that if someone refuses to pay money
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Despite this, every morning they are allowed to sit only after recovering money from the street vendors. Shopkeepers say that when money is charged daily from them, it becomes a compulsion to put the burden on the customers. The prices of fruits and vegetables have increased directly by Rs 5. For example, tomatoes which were earlier sold for 40 rupees a kg are now being sold for 45 rupees. Local residents said that a few years ago there was a dispute over similar illegal recovery. Then the late MLA Gurpreet Gogi reached the spot and investigated the mandi and after the action this recovery was stopped.
But now after the municipal elections, the same old system has become active again. People have demanded from the administration that the matter should be investigated immediately and this recovery from poor street vendors should be stopped, so that the general public can get relief. Local resident Rajinder Sharma says that the government talks about ending corruption, but everything is going on upside down in the field. Taranjit Kaur, a resident of the area, said that forced recovery is being done from poor street vendors, which the general public is facing directly. When BRS Nagar councilor Satnam Singh was talked about in this regard, he said that he has no information about it. When asked that the recovery is being done in his name, he said, “Tell me the name, then I will see it.” Local residents and shopkeepers demand that the administration immediately conduct investigations in this mandi and take action on the responsibilities, so that people can get vegetables and fruits at cheap prices and the poor hawkers stop exploiting.