BHUBANESWAR: Representatives of international and national organisations on
Friday visited the vending zones here to take firsthand experience about the
model to rehabilitate small roadside vendors in the city.
Representative
of United Kingdom (UK)-based Department for International Development (DFID)
Kunal Singh, SNPUPR’s Khalibulla, UKaid’s deputy programme manager Radhika
Singh, Rajeev Awas Yojana (RAY) official HK Tripathy and Bhubaneswar Municipal
Corporation (BMC) official Santosh Praharaj at first visited the fruit vending
zone at Ram Mandir Square here.
The
delegates discussed several issues about electricity connection to the vending
zones, BMC’s cooperation in providing basic facilities to the vending zones and
other issues related to the vendors. They also asked the costumers about the
vending zones and sought opinion from them for its development.
Finally
the representatives discussed about 20 minutes with members of the All Orissa
Roadside Vendors’ Association (AORVA) led by its president Pratap Sahu. The
association members Dhirendra Kumar Swain, Sudarshan Prusty, Bipin Bihari Das
and others told the representatives about the problems faced by the vendors and
also informed them about 17 upcoming vending zones in the city.
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