Port Blair, Feb 01: Taking strong note of street vendors of Junglighat Sunday Market resorting not keeping garbage bins/bags to keep the area clean, the Port Blair Municipal Council has decided to impose fine of Rs 50/- for normal littering and Rs 100/- for bulk littering against defaulters. In a release, the Joint Secretary of Municipal Council said that the Council has decided to take strict action against street vendors for littering at Sunday Market at Junglighat. An amount of Rs 50/- and Rs 100/- will also be charged from Small and Big Street Vendors as fees for putting up shops at the Sunday market, the Jt. Secretary added.
Due to the Sunday Market at Junglighat,the residents of the area are facing problems.Police personnels are blocking the road ways which leads to fisheries colony upto Tirupathi Temple. The residents who are having four wheelers and two wheelers are stopped and not allowed to go to their homes during market hours. God forbid, in case of medical emergency I fear how an ambulance would reach the patient and take hime to hospital in time? Plz look into the matter seriously.