The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) has constituted
the GHMC Town Vending Committee in accordance with the provisions of
National Policy on Urban Street Vendors, 2009, said GHMC commissioner,
Somesh Kumar.

The committee comprises of 12 government officials,
24 members from associations of street vendors, 12 members from
residential welfare associations and community-based organisations and
12 members from other civil society organisations. The committee be in
force till March 31, 2014 or further orders, added the commissioner.

Speaking
to reporters after the Prajavani programme, he said that a large number
of vendors had gathered at the GHMC head office on Monday with a
request to register them as licensed vendors. The policy is to protect
vendors from harassment, issuing identity cards along with a with few
restrictions such as allowing them to sell their products in certain
places.

The commissioner is hopeful that the orders issued by the
state government recently will definitely help vendors, and the city
will also become orderly with space for commuters on roads and
footpaths.

On the pending Building Penalisation Scheme (BPS)
cases, he said that nearly 4,000 cases are with the GHMC and expressed
confidence that they will be settled before December 31. He further said
that the House Numbering Cell of the GHMC will be strengthened with 430
polytechnic students taken on internship basis to number the streets by
defining the locality later to simplify house numbering in GHMC limits.
He said that the process would be completed within 3 to 4 months by
taking it on a project mode. 

The commissioner said that the GHMC
has identified certain locations where large number of people gather for
work or near a hospital. He directed the officials, concerned
authorities to take up temporary structures to accommodate people at
night in the next 10 to 15 days by erecting temporary night-shelters to
protect from chilly weather.

During the Prajavani, as many as 51 grievances pertaining to various subjects were received.