KUCHING: Starting 1 November 2016, Padawan
Municipal Council (MPP) will impose permit fee of RM60 per month on hawkers
operating without licence at Mile 3 bazaar car park.
According MPP chairman Lo Khere Chiang, the
council has made the decision to move unlicensed hawkers to the car park behind
the shophouses.
“We are requesting for their cooperation so
that they will not cause inconvenience to motorists who want to park in front
of the shophouses. Some of the parking spaces are now occupied by hawkers from
morning until dusk.
“A lot of people, including shoppers,
shopkeepers and licensed hawkers are not happy with the unlicensed hawkers,” Lo
told a press conference after the MPP full council meeting, yesterday.
Lo said the council was regulating the
hawkers by collecting permit fee to allow them to trade.
Meanwhile, the chairman of the standing
committee for market licensing and enforcement, Wilfred Yap, said the decision
made because unlicensed hawkers operating at parking spaces in the centre of
Mile 3 bazaar had caused traffic congestion and other forms of nuisance.
“After much deliberation, we have made the
decision which was endorsed during the full council meeting today. The
enforcement division of MPP will relocate the unlicensed hawkers at the car
parks behind H&L Supermarket at Mile 3 bazaar.
“The engineering division will draw and
paint stall boxes at the designated places by 1 November,” said Yap.
He said the full council had also mandated
the council secretary to engage members of RELA to assist the council
enforcement division in the daily management of the hawkers.
“The
enforcement division will designate personnel to monitor and collect the fees.
We hope that the problem of illegal hawking at Mile 3 bazaar will be a thing of
the past,” he added.
By : Alexandra Lorna
Sarawak Tribune
Date Posted : Thursday 29-Sep-2016
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