First street vending zone to come up in P’kula’s Sec 15
Rajinder S Nagarkoti
Tribune News Service
Panchkula, July 8
Haryana’s first street vending zone will come up under the street vending policy at Sector 15 in Panchkula.
The city’s Municipal Commissioner-cum-Administrator, Rajesh Jogpal said, “This vending zone in Sector 15 will be the first under the street vending policy. We will accommodate 25 street vendors at this zone and also provide basic facilities, including toilets for vendors, at the site.”
“There will be enough space for pedestrians to move around at the vending zone. The size of the vending site will be six by four feet. The monthly rent of the site will be finalised soon,” he added.
Jogpal along with officials of the Municipal Corporation (MC) inspected the site on Sunday. He also held a meeting with officials concerned and discussed layout plan and design of the vending zone.
“The Town Vending Committee (TVC) of the MC has approved ‘Panchkula City Street Vending Plan’ recently. Panchkula will become the first civic body in Haryana to have street vending plan,” Jogpal added.
The MC has already identified 24 places in the city for the street vending zones. As many as 2,799 street vendors will be rehabilitated by the civic body in Panchkula.
A mobile-based application, using the GIS mapping with the 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 relocated from his/her place of livelihood till the survey is completed.
Notably, Parliament had passed the Street Vendors (Protection of Livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending) Act, 2014, which guarantees them the right to work as street vendors. They can be evicted only as per provisions of the Act.
