"Nehru Place Market Is Like Slum": High Court Raps Delhi On City Planning
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The high court, however, said it was aware that street vending provides employment to many, especially from the lower strata and people can buy goods at lower prices.
How can we talk of developing Delhi into a city like London in another decade or so without focussing on the planning aspect, the Delhi High Court said Monday as it heard an issue relating to unauthorised hawkers and street vendors in marketplaces.
The high court, however, said it was aware that street vending provides employment to many, especially from the lower strata of society and people can buy goods at lower prices, but there is a need to balance the rights of the shopkeepers who pay lakhs of rupees for rent of shops or people who want free access to the market area and of street vendors.
“We talk of developing Delhi into a city like London in another decade or so. How will we achieve that? What happens to the planning aspect?” it said.
While referring to the situation in Connaught Place and Nehru Place, a bench of Justices Vipin Sanghi and Jasmeet Singh said people can't even walk in Connaught Place as there are vendors occupying the space which has become a business.
