Mohali residents will now have the luxury of getting coconut water at multiple sites across Mohali. In a first, the Mohali Municipal Corporation has earmarked 43 vending sites for selling coconut water on roadside. Mohali has become the only district in Punjab which has special sites for coconut stalls.
This is where you will get coconut water in Mohali:
Three sites each in Phases 1 and 11,
two sites each have been earmarked in Phases 2, 3B1, 3B2, 6, 9, 10, 7 and Sectors 70, 71 and 78
Four vendors in Sector 68,
One each vendor in Phases 3A, 4, 5, 7, 8, 8B, YPS Chowk, Sectors 66, 67,77,79,80 and at Sohana village.
How will Mohali MC benefit?
The Mohali MC is all set to fetch a revenue of over ₹1 crore yearly from these stalls.
Each vendor will have to pay ₹72,000 advance, including three month rent as security fee ( ₹54,000), besides a month’s rent in advance ( ₹18,000) and GST. The advance security will be adjusted in the last three months of the year-long contract.
A vendor will have to pay ₹600 daily or ₹18,000 a month.
Last year, Mohali MC had allocated 28 coconut water sites and earned ₹26 lakh revenue. The MC has received 500 applications till now from potential vendors for allocation.
Only residents of Punjab or Tricity can apply for the licence. Apart from coconut water, nothing else will be allowed to be sold by the coconut water vendors.
If they are caught selling other things, they would be issued a notice as first warning. On second offence, they will have to pay ₹5,000 fine and in case of repeat violation, their contract will be cancelled and security would not be refunded.
The Mohali MC will not open tenders for the allotment of sites as the scheme is meant for poor people, and open tenders would benefit the contractors only.
MC Commissioner Navjot Kaur has said that draw-of-lots will be conducted soon for transparent allotment to pick 43 vendors.
Benefits of coconut water
Anti-oxidant
Good for diabetics
Excellent source of hydration
Good for heart health
Prevents kidney stones
