The Hindu 21.01.2015
Street vendors protest delay in issuing licence
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.
