Soon, panel to regularise street vendors in Gurugram, 9,000 registered so far

Gurgaon MCG has identified 9215 registered street vendors in the city and initiated the process of constituting the town vending committee TVCT. The civic body has also invited objections and claims from those whose names do not figure in the list once the list is final and vendors are registered. Officials said of the 9215 registered street vendors 1284 were identified after a recent survey done by the civic body while the remaining 7931 are registered under the PM's Svanidhi scheme. Officials said that the street vending zones will be revised after the TVC is constituted. The city has a total of 280 street vending zones. "We recently conducted a survey and verified that 1284 street vendors are operating in the city moreover 7931 street vendors are registered under the PM's Svanidhi scheme to avail a loan of up to Rs 10000." said Lakhi Ram Sharma, Assistant City Project Officer, MCG. "We have now invited objections and claims in the next 15 days after we receive the objections we will finalise the list the TVC will then be constituted the 16member committee will include eight street vendors elected by the registered street vendors and the remaining eight members will be government officials." he added.