SAS Nagar, November 21: In Mohali city, the cart and handcart owners have spread their network and a large number of carts and handcarts are parked in every market of the city throughout the day. Their number increases further as the evening falls.
In most of these carts and handcarts, poor food items are sold. But in the greed of cheapness, a large number of people become customers of these carts and handcarts.
The situation is such that glasses are also made available to special customers on carts and handcarts selling chicken pakoras, eggs, fish and other non-vegetarian items. These carts and handcarts have taken the form of illegal bases in a way. The owners of these carts and hawkers selling food items have also kept chairs and benches in the parking or on the roads for the convenience of their customers, where people often sit comfortably and eat the goods bought from these carts and hawkers.
The network of these carts and hawkers is so strong that whenever the illegal encroachment removal team of Municipal Corporation Mohali leaves the office for action, these cart and hawkers get the information immediately. A large number of cart and hawkers pack up their goods and disappear before the arrival of the corporation team and after the team leaves, they set up again as before.
Most of the goods sold on these carts and hawkers selling food items are of poor quality. The surprising thing is that the common people know and understand this very well, but become their customers in the greed of cheap goods. Because the goods being sold on these carts and hawkers are somewhat cheaper than the goods sold in the shops. People fall prey to many diseases by buying from them.
Even though the shops selling food items are occasionally inspected by the concerned department, the department officials remain careless in checking the goods sold on the carts and handcarts. Most of these hawkers and handcarts set up their carts and handcarts after dusk, when government offices are closed and they escape departmental action.
In this regard, social worker leader Karan Johar has demanded that wherever there are carts and handcarts selling substandard food items, arrangements should be made to check their quality and appropriate action should be taken against those selling substandard goods, so that people do not fall ill by eating substandard goods sold from these carts and handcarts in greed for cheapness.