The Indian Express 30.11.2013
Civic body speeds up work undertaken to rehabilitate hawkers
As per the orders of Supreme Court and directions from the state
government, the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has speeded up the work
of survey and registration of hawkers for their rehabilitation.
“The civic body has undertaken biometric survey for hawkers.
Simultaneously, committees of hawker representatives and civic officers
is being formed in each ward office to identify locations for
rehabilitation of hawkers in their respective areas,” said Additional
Municipal Commissioner Rajendra Jagtap.
He said other civic bodies of the state are approaching PMC to
understand steps taken to register hawkers and rehabilitate them. “The
PMC is well ahead of other civic bodies in implementing the Supreme
Court order,” said Jagtap.
Madhav Jagtap, incharge of anti-encroachment department, PMC,
said, “The civic body has decided to use unique software to bring
transparency in the process. Under the system, agency appointed by the
civic body will identify all the hawkers ward-wise and record their
thumb impressions and collect their photographs with their respective
stalls.”
Currently, there are 22,000-25,000 hawkers in the civic limits who operate without licences and permissions.
“Once the data is ready, the committees set up to relocate
hawkers will start identifying places for setting up markets for
hawkers,” said Jagtap.
The new system will be online with GIS Maps where complete
ward-wise onsite survey of all hawkers and stall owners in PMC limit
will be available with thumb impressions, photographs, UID information
and GIS attributes. Smart cards would be distributed to hawkers.
