1,562 street vendors in P’kula

Rajinder Nagarkoti

Tribune News Service

Panchkula, February 1

A survey conducted by the local Municipal Corporation (MC) has put the number of street vendors in the city at 1,562. The agency that carried out the survey today submitted its report to the civic body.

MC Commissioner Rajesh Jogpal said the 1,562 vendors included 81 female vendors. The survey of Kalka and Pinjore would start tomorrow, he said.

Rudhrabhishek Enterprises Pvt. Ltd, New Delhi, was allotted the work of carrying out the survey. A mobile-based application using GIS mapping with digital photograph of vendors was employed in the survey conducted under the Street Vendors (Protection of Livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending) Act-2014.

As per Section 3 (III) of the Act, no street vendor will be evicted or re-allocated from his/her place of livelihood till the survey is completed. However, no vendor will cause any obstruction in the movement of vehicles and pedestrians.

The District Town Planner has already been asked to identify and allocate six sites in Panchkula and two each in Kalka and Pinjore for street vendors.

Now, the report of the survey will be put up before the town vending committee in its next meeting.