The Hindu 21.01.2015
Street vendors protest delay in issuing licence
Street vendors say in the absence of legal documents they have to pay bribes to operate. —File photo
Street vendors from across the Capital on Tuesday
protested outside the offices of the municipal bodies against the delay
in issuing licences to hawkers.
The three municipal
corporations and the New Delhi Municipal Council were supposed to
conduct a survey before allotting vending licences as per the Street
Vendors Bill, 2014.
The National Association of
Street Vendors of India (NASVI) that organised the protests, said that
the vendors had to pay bribes to be able to operate in the absence of
legal documents.
NASVI national coordinator Arbind
Singh said the corporations had set up town vending committees, but “not
a single vendor was given a licence in the past 10 years”.
The street vendors handed over a memorandum to the three municipal commissioners and the chairperson of the NDMC.
According to the NASVI, the officials assured the vendors that challans would not be issued till the surveys were completed.
