Chandigarh, Feb. 11 -- The UT administration has decided to allow furniture traders from Sectors 53 and 54 to participate in the auction for booths at the Sector 56 Bulk Material Market, where the marble market from Dhanas is being shifted.

This comes in response to the furniture traders' plea for an alternative site after they were served eviction notices over illegal occupation of government land.

Initially, only traders from the Dhanas marble market were to be relocated to Sector 56.

UT estate officer-cum-deputy commissioner Nishant Kumar Yadav, said, "The auction is open to all traders, regardless of their sector. Earlier, we had planned to shift only the marble market, but now traders from the furniture market and other sectors ca...