Srinagar admin finalises plan for shifting street vendors to designated vending zones

The Srinagar administration has finalised an enforcement plan for a concrete and irreversible shifting of registered street vendors to designated five vending zones set up at different locations in the city centre.

This was informed in a meeting held here Tuesday under thechairmanship of the Deputy Commissioner Srinagar Dr Shahid Iqbal Choudhary.

   

The meeting was informed that joint enforcement teamscomprising Revenue and SMC officials have been constituted with strictinstructions to clear all roads and shift vendors to their designated zonesadding that CRPF and Police personnel will assist in enforcement operations.

It was said that encroachment of roads will no longer beallowed in the city adding that strictest of actions will be taken againstvendors who will resist shifting to their corresponding vending zones orindulge in violations of orders in this regard.

Concerned Tehsildars will oversee the vendor shiftingoperations in their respective jurisdictions and will also coordinate with theSMC and assist it in efforts thereto.

The meeting also discussed the encroachment of footpaths byshopkeepers in the city and measures required to be taken to clear them. It wasobserved that footpath encroachments are a major form of public inconveniencerisking pedestrians who are forced to use the main vehicular roads.

Tehsildars were authorized to start a concrete drive againstencroachments thereof being instructed to seize the merchandise and seal theshops found encroaching footpaths.

It was said violations in this regard will attract substantialfines adding that errant shops will not be allowed to reopen unless their finesstand paid.

The SMC was asked to submit the vending zone-wise list ofvendors forthwith and make preparations for shifting them.

The DC while speaking on the occasion said shifting ofvendors to designated vending zones is being done in accordance with awell-formulated plan allowing easier identification and preventingproliferation of registered vendors.

It is notable that there are a total of some 3000 registeredstreet vendors in the Srinagar city and that their unregulated operationsencroaching important vehicular roads result in major traffic jams andcongestion which affects traffic situation of the whole city.

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