‘Dues not paid for over a decade’, Vadodara civic body seals fish market

Early connected Thursday, teams of the VMC’s marketplace section arrived astatine Pirameter food marketplace and removed the integrative crates and different belongings of the vendors to initiate the process of sealing the premises owed to “violation of lease conditions”. In a announcement pasted connected the sealed gross of the premises, the VMC’s marketplace section stated, “The VMC-administered food marketplace successful Pirameter roadworthy had been fixed retired connected lease for a interest and further GST, without immoderate rights to person possession of the property. However, contempt repeated notices issued to you to wage the stipulated rent for the designated spots successful the market, you person continued to disregard the notice… As per the rules, authorities premises fixed retired for usage are to beryllium sealed and taken backmost successful lawsuit of usurpation of presumption of lease agreement.” The announcement besides warned that “unauthorised” usage of the premises would beryllium treated arsenic “trespass”.

Vijay Panchal, Market Superintendent of the VMC, told The Indian Express that the food traders had not cleared  rent payments for implicit a decade. Panchal said, “We person initiated the proceedings against the tenants of commercialized premises who person not cleared the dues. We person issued notices to vendors of  Mogulwada mutton marketplace arsenic good arsenic traders successful Panigate and Wadi buying complexes. If they bash not wide their dues, the premises volition beryllium sealed.”

Panchal said  portion 9 retired of the 14 shops leased retired successful Panigate buying analyzable were served notices for clearing outstanding dues, six of 30 shops successful the Wadi buying analyzable would beryllium sealed successful lawsuit the payments were not cleared. Panchal besides said  20 retired of 21 mutton vendors person been served notices for “violation” of lease agreement. “We began with the tenants, who person been defaulting for 5 and 10 years. Next successful enactment volition beryllium those whose rental payments are owed for nether 5 years…,” helium added.