The Hindu        28.08.2014  

Corporation asked to involve NGOs in vendors’ survey

The Vellore Institute of Development Studies (VIDS) has requested the Vellore Corporation to involve proactive non-governmental organisations and research scholars in Thiruvalluvar University, VIT University and colleges in the survey of street vendors to be conducted by it.

In a memorandum submitted to P. Karthiyayini, Mayor of Vellore Corporation, recently, the VIDS Director P. Jegadish Gandhi welcomed the initiative by the Vellore Corporation to undertake a survey of street vendors in Vellore as per the guidelines of The Street Vendors (Protection of Livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending) Act 2014.

“It will go a long way in regularising the informal trade activities.”

Since the survey is to be undertaken in all 60 wards of Vellore, the Corporation might be divided into subregions to make the survey effective and meaningful without leaving any small vendor in any part of any street.

The involvement of NGOs, universities and colleges would help in identifying and enumerating the innumerable street vendors in view of their experience in social survey analysis, he said.

Memorandum submitted to

P. Karthiyayini, Mayor of Vellore Corporation