Street vendors urged to stop using polythene bags in Thoothukudi

Thoothukudi Corporation Mayor Jegan Periyasamy has urged the street vendors to stop using polythene bags, at a loan mela organised under the PM SVANidhi scheme at the Corporation office premises on Thursday.

Corporation Commissioner S. Priyanka presided over the event. Mr. Jegan distributed loan sanction orders and identity cards to 100 street vendors.

Speaking at the event, the Mayor said applications had been received from 9,224 eligible street vendors across all 60 wards of the corporation. Of these, loans had been sanctioned to 7,846 vendors, while 7,593 vendors had received the loans so far.

He added under the scheme street vendors are provided loans of ₹15,000 in the first tranche, ₹25,000 in second tranche and ₹50,000 in third tranche through banks. Identity cards are also being issued to the street vendors by the corporation and so far 1,864 vendors had received while 500 more identity cards have been issued recently.