Kathmandu, June 18 -- The Kathmandu Metropolitan City has announced that it will auction off the goods seized from street hawkers and other illegal vendors.

This will be the first-of-its-kind move from the city. The city authority has collected goods worth around Rs 1.5 million in the past four months.

"Earlier, we used to return the confiscated goods after charging Rs 1,500 fine to the vendors. But this did not deter the vendors from coming back to sell their wares illegally," Dhanapati Sapkota, chief of the Implementation Department at the KMC, told the Post. The metropolis has seized several articles from illegal vendors. Footwear, masks, underwear, pants, shorts, belts, caps, bags, vests, wallets, handkerchiefs, to name a few.

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