Street vendors urge MCC Commissioner to halt eviction drive till survey is completed
Street vendors in Mysuru are urging the City Corporation to halt an ongoing eviction drive until a mandatory survey of vendors is completed. They argue that the Street Vendors Act prohibits evictions before the issuance of official vending certificates and ID cards.
Why it matters
This highlights the ongoing tension between urban development/encroachment removal and the legal rights of informal workers to their livelihoods.
Representatives of Street Vendors’ Maha Mandala met Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) Commissioner M.K. Savitha on Monday (July 13) and urged her to put off the eviction drive against footpath vendors in the city till a survey of street vendors is completed.
Street Vendors’ Maha Mandala leader Bhaskar Srinivasa Raje Urs, who is also a member of the Town Vending Committee of MCC, sought to draw the Commissioner’s attention to the pending survey of street vendors in MCC limits.
A tender for the survey has already been invited. Citing the Street Vendors (Protection of Livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending) Act, Mr. Urs said the authorities cannot evict any street vendor until a survey is completed and ID cards and vending certificates are issued to the street vendors.
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