Posers raised over shop plot allotment
Source: Chronicle News Service
Imphal, July 28 2022:
Self Employment Youth Association (SEYA), a body of shopkeepers operating at Lamphel Super Marke, has urged the government to ensure that the allotment of the newly constructed shop plots near Lamphel Super Market is done in accordance with existing rules and regulations.
Addressing a press meet at Manipur Press Club here on Thursday, SEYA secretary Chirom (o) Netrashori stated that the members of the Association had been selling second hand clothes in a market near Lamphel Super Market since 2011, but the market was dismantled by the government on September 1-2, 2020 to construct permanent shops on the said land.
As of now, construction of around 300 shops has been completed.
Before the construction, the previous market was occupied by less than 200 vendors, but presently it seems that most of the newly built shop plots have been reserved even before the official allotment, as advertisements with mobile numbers have been pasted on some shops for leasing them, she claimed.
Questioning the authority concerned when the allotments of these shop plots were carried out, Netrashori suspected that the shop plots were given to some other people while ignoring the shopkeepers and street vendors who were earning their livelihood at the Lamphel Super Market when it was in dire condition.
The SEYA secretary also mentioned that in connection with this issue, memorandums have been repeatedly submitted to chief minister N Biren, IMC and MAHUD, but till now no official allotment has been announced.
Hence, CM and MAHUD minister Y Khemchand must look into the matter at the earliest, she said.