Chandigarh, June 8 -- City residents can finally expect respite from illegal street vendors as the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation is deploying advanced technology to keep them off the streets.

In a major push to regulate street vending and curb the growing menace of illegal vendors, the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation (MC) is introducing a comprehensive monitoring system, starting with the issuance of smart identification cards to all registered vendors.

This new initiative, designed to restore order to the city's vending system, brings together several cutting-edge technologies to ensure transparency and efficient enforcement, including hologram-embedded certificates, chip-based ID cards, geofencing of vending zones, a mobile tracki...