The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) has decided to distribute more than 200 pindis (kiosks) to the displaced vendors of Saheed Nagar market.

The BMC was supposed to rehabilitate the shop-keepers who were displaced due to  construction of Bhawani-BMC Shopping Mall in Saheed Nagar. Even after repeated assurances, the BMC had not been able to rehabilitate them.

 However, the corporation decided to lease  the shops at its last council meeting on Monday.

 About 216 pindis will be distributed in the first phase.  A decision to build a commercial complex-cum-auditorium was also taken at the council meeting.