News Track: Shimla: Thursday,
13 August 2020.
Another
act of the Chamba Administration, the city of Himachal Pradesh, has emerged.
Last year, due to the Minjar fair, entrepreneurs who came from outside the
states stalls for free and went on to earn lakhs by selling gol gappas and
chaat papdis. Neither the District Administration nor the local entrepreneurs
got any profit from the income earned by selling 10 stalls. This action of the
Chamba City Administration has been revealed in the information taken under
Right to Information.
Every
year, the confectioners who reach out to the fair, also earn a hefty amount by
buying thousands of stalls, but the North Zone Cultural Center and District
Administration gave stalls to the Halwais free of cost. Regarding the free
allotted stalls, Chamba painter and RTI activist Padmashree Vijay Sharma sought
information from the district administration about how much income the fair
committee received from the stalls allotted to foreigners from outside states.
Chamba
Collector sent the request to the SDM. The SDM said that the stall was awarded
to the contractor who made the stall at Chaugan No.1. Thereafter, to whom the
contractor further allocated the stall, they are not aware of it. The RTI
activist sought information from the Northern Regional Cultural Center, Patiala,
that in how many rupees did he buy the stall at the major Chaugan? Information
about its terms and conditions should be given in writing. On this it got the
answer that he was given these 10 stalls by the District Administration free of
cost, and the Center has provided these stalls free of cost to the plowmen. The
case is now being inspected.
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