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The Sarojini Nagar Market Association has alleged that the New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) issued certificates of vending without due verification and included respective non-vendors successful the list.
Members of the relation alleged that they were not consulted for recommendations to the Town Vending Committee (TVC), which conducted a survey past twelvemonth to finalise the database of vendors eligible for the certificates.
The TVC, comprising 12 elected members, conducted a survey that concluded successful July 2025, aft which the NDMC released a database of 514 vendors successful the marketplace who were issued vending certificates.
According to marketplace relation members, the survey was conducted without immoderate wide criteria for identifying pre-existing vendors, starring to overcrowding.
The document, which mentions a vendor’s name, vending ID, marketplace name, and residential address, was finalised solely based on challans issued earlier by the NDMC, they claimed.
“In the NDMC list, astatine slightest 60 individuals person been named betwixt kiosks S-22 and S-26, shops 136 and 137, and betwixt T-1 and T-10. However, nary vendors are really occupying these spaces. Moreover, successful G-Avenue, which is simply a no-vending zone, respective individuals person been listed,” said Ashok Randhawa, president of the Sarojini Nagar Mini Market Traders Association. “Several objections were raised and submitted to the NDMC via its online portal and e-mail, but nary effect was received,” helium added.
Rejecting allegations
Dinesh Kumar Dixit, a subordinate of the Town Vending Committee, rejected the allegations, stating that applications for the survey had been invited online, pursuing which the sheet received 1,069 applications from across NDMC areas.
Kavita Khate, different committee member, however, pointed retired that determination were gaps successful the certificates issued contempt objections being raised successful committee meetings.
“Instead of mentioning the nonstop spot wherever a vendor is stationed — usually referred to by the store successful beforehand of which they run — the certificates notation lone ‘Sarojini Nagar’, which is misleading and does not guarantee vendors of the abstraction they assertion for their livelihood,” she said.
High Court rules
On Thursday, a Bench of Justices Pratibha Singh and Madhu Jain of the Delhi High Court directed the Delhi authorities and the NDMC to convene meetings with officials acrophobic and instrumentality decisions regarding the presumption of thoroughfare vendors successful markets nether the NDMC, including Sarojini Nagar and Palika Bazaar successful Connaught Place. Observing that “the chaotic concern prevailing successful assorted markets in NDMC and MCD limits is rather visible”, the tribunal underscored the request for an urgent resolution.
The order, which came connected writ petitions filed by assorted marketplace associations, noted that according to the vending program submitted by the TVC to the NDMC, the fig of vendors exceeded the projected vending sites, and astatine slightest 200 further sites would request to beryllium approved to accommodate each eligible vendors.
The Bench directed the Delhi Chief Secretary to clasp meetings connected the contented and record a presumption study earlier the court.
