HYDERABAD: The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) has started implementing street vending policy in city. Street vending policy has to be implemented now as part of the directive issued by Supreme Court.
After a delay of more than two years, GHMC will implement the Right to Livelihood Act and the Street Vendors Act, 2014 in the twin cities. The Street Vendors (Protection of Livelihood & Regulation of Street Vending) Act, 2014 provides provision for protection of livelihood rights, social security and regulation of urban street vending.
Inaugurating the programme and handing over identity cards to 75 street vendors in Mailardevpally on Sunday, GHMC commissioner B Janardhan Reddy said that the survey for identification of street vendors is under progress at all the circles and so far the details of 5,782 street vendors have been surveyed while the details of 2,904 street vendors have been updated on TMEPMA site.
Initially, the GHMC will identify stretches in each circle to regulate vending and also identify areas where vendors sell their wares conveniently without causing inconvenience to commuters, Janardhan Reddy said.
After completion of the survey, the GHMC will identify number of vendors and mark vending zones in the city in accordance with the rules laid down in the Act. The move would go a long way in protecting vendors from harassment by officials.
Town Vending Committees (TVC) at circle level are formed with 20 per cent government officials, 40 per cent with associations of street vendors (30 per cent would be women), 20 per cent with community organisations and 20 per cent with civil society organisations.
The TVC will ensure for the accommodation of all the identified street vendors in the vending zones subject to a norm confirming to 2.5 per cent of the total town population and every street vendor will have to maintain civic amenities and public property in the vending zone.
