The Hindu 29.12.2014
Survey of street vendors, hawkers in Salem
To enumerate the number of street vendors and hawkers in
the city, a Chennai-based private company would begin a global
positioning system (GPS) satellite survey on December 29.
The
Street Vendors (Protection of Livelihood and Regulation of Street
Vending) Act, 2014 paves way for protecting the right of urban street
vendors and to regulate their vending activities.
The
Act mandates forming a Town Vending Committee that should conduct a
survey of all existing street vendors within Corporation limits at least
once in five years and also frame guidelines for relocating such
vendors.
The Act provides the right to vendors, who
possesses a certificate of vending, to be entitled for new area, for
carrying out vending activities, that is determined by the committee.
Hence,
the Corporation has appointed the company to carry out the survey in
the city limits so that welfare measures and their rights are protected.
Corporation
Commissioner K.R. Selvaraj has requested all vendors to provide
complete details to the surveyors so that the survey report is accurate
and used for further decision-making process.
Though
no proper survey has been carried out so far by the Corporation, about
6,817 hawkers are said to be in the civic body limits.
Vendors asked to provide complete details to those conducting survey
