Ambala street vendors to get ID cards

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Updated At : 12:38 PM Jul 10, 2020 IST

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Nitin Jain

Tribune News Service

Ambala, July 9

The local municipal corporation has started issuing chip-based identity cards to registered vendors in Ambala City. Almost 2,000 street vendors have already been registered and those left out will be done in coming days.

The pilot project will be replicated in district’s other towns. Chip-based identity cards will provide name, address, age and photograph of the vendor, besides specifying whether he is stationary or mobile.

The ID cards will enable customers to know vendors, who will be able to avail one-time bank loan of Rs 10,000 under the PM’s Street Vendors Atam Nirbhar Fund. Crowded public places, busy roads and streets in the district will now be free of the congestion.

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