Chandigarh, Feb. 25 -- The town vending committee of Chandigarh municipal corporation (MC) on Monday scrapped the licences of 4,003 street vendors for failing to clear their pending dues.

The decision was taken during a meeting held under the chairmanship of the municipal commissioner Amit Kumar.

As per a 2016 survey, the city had 10,903 registered vendors, who were allotted vending sites for five years for a monthly licence fee. Only 3,595 had been paying their fees on a regular basis while 7,308 registered vendors owed the MC a whopping Rs.75 crore till September 18, 2024. At least 2,352 vendors had not paid their fee even once.

With some vendors starting to pay their fees, the MC gave notices to the remaining 4,139 vendors, directin...