NURMAHAL
More than seven years after declaring 200 meters adjoining Nagar council office and tehsil office as a no-vendor zone, the Nurmahal Nagar council (NC)is yet to implement the town vending committee’s decision taken in its meeting held on July 17, 2015.
Nc executive Rajiv Oberoi said a meeting of NC would be convened shortly which will decide the next step.
The NC formed TVC under The Street Vendors (Protection of Livelihood and regulation of street vending) Act, 2014.
The committee had decided that only mobile vending will be allowed and in streets with less than 10 feet of width, no mobile vending will be allowed. As per the Act, the NC must provide basic amenities along with the smart vendors’ identity cards to them.
NC conducted a survey of street vendors in 2014 and identified around 64 vendors. Illegal encroachments by vendors and unregulated businesses are one of the biggest challenges before the authorities. The NC formed a TVC in July 2014, which was re-casted in 2015 to implement the National Policy on Urban Street Vendors, in 2009.