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
