Hyderabad: The GHMC on Sunday introduced hawkers zones in the city, limiting the timings for street vendors at specfic areas. GHMC commissioner Dr B. Janardhan Reddy, who launched the zones at a few circles in the Old City, said 5,782 street vendors had been identified across the city; the details fo 2,904 vendors had been uploaded on the website of the Mission for Elimination of Poverty in Municipal Areas.
“We are providing identity cards to all recognised street vendors, apart from providing special training in skill upgradation and in self-employment. We have constituted town vending committees at the circle level in which 20 per cent members are government employees, 40 per cent are street vendors while 20 per cent are social activists,” he said.
He said that the GHMC had introduced hawkers’ zones in 20 circles in connection with Gandhi Jayanti. “Street vending is prohibited in red zones, free vending will be allowed at green zones. Street vending is allowed at specified timings in special zones,” he said.
