Street vendors demand alternative arrangement to sell their ware

February 4, 2014

Mangalore, Feb 4: Local street vendors under the banner of Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) staged a protest in front of the Mangalore city corporation office at Lalbagh on Monday, demanding an alternative arrangement for street vendors to peddle their goods.

They urged the civic body to reserve for them a hawking place in the central business area in the city.

Addressing the protestors, honorary president of the district unit of CITU Sunil Kumar Bajal said that the Street Vendors (Protection of Livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending) Bill had been passed in the Parliament in 2012, to protect the livelihood of street vendors. However, today they are helpless as they are being opposed by permanent shop owners in Central Market and other markets in the city. The concerned authorities have to provide separate space for the street vendors, and earn their livelihood, he said.

Later, the protestors squatted at the entrance of the office pressing their demand.

The sit-in followed eviction of street vendors from the surroundings of central market building recently.

They withdrew their dharna at 4 p.m. after the deputy commissioner and administrator of the civic body A B Ibrahim and the commissioner of the corporation Ajith Kumar Hegde Shanady held talks with the their association.

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Restoring the Govt Presence

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• Recruitment: The state has already begun training a new batch of government bus drivers to ensure the fleet is operational the moment it arrives.

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