Daijiworld Media Network – Mangaluru (DV)
With Inputs from Media Release

Mangaluru, Sep 16: “Street vendors’ survey programmes have been organised within the Mangaluru City Corporation (MCC) limits. Identity cards and street vending trade licenses will be issued to the street vendors within the MCC limits from September 19 to 30 during the course of the survey,” informed MCC commissioner Akshy Sridhar in a press release here on Thursday September 16.

The release also stated that following the directives of the Supreme Court to implement Street Vendors Policy, the union ministry of law and justice, government of India has passed Street Vendors (Protection of Livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending) Act, 2014 and the Karnataka Government has issued Karnataka Street Vendors (Protection of Livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending) Rules 2020.

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Correspondingly, Support to Urban Street Vendors (SUSV) is set up under the ‘Deen Dayal Antyodyaya Yojana - National Urban Livelihood Campaign’.

As per SUSV guidelines, street vendors’ survey programmes have been organised within the MCC limits. Identity cards and Street Vending trade licenses will be issued to the street vendors within the MCC limits.

During the survey, all the street vendors are requested to compulsorily produce their ration card, voter ID, Aadhar card, PAN card, driving license, bank pass book, documents of registration under street vendors’ organisation. Original and photo copies of Covid-19 vaccination certificate and QR code generated for digital transaction, mobile number linked to Aadhar card, photograph of the place where the trade is being conducted, family photograph and their passport size photographs are also required to be produced.

All street vendors are hereby informed to pay Rs 50 as registration fees and receive appropriate receipt from the surveyor, the press release stated.