Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation standing committee sanctioned the urban street vendor policy for Ahmedabad by the Centre for Environment Planning and Technology.
Finally, the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC)'s standing committee sanctioned the urban street vendor policy for Ahmedabad by the Centre for Environment Planning and Technology (Cept) on Thursday. The committee made two changes in the report prepared by Cept and standing committee chairperson Asit Vora said they will soon send the report to the state government for approval.
The standing committee sanctioned the report within two days of the HC chiding municipal commissioner IP Gautam on his failure to introduce the policy even after its order. Proposed changes in the report include inclusion of leader of opposition in a 15-member committee.
Vora said that they have made another change - to include mayor's representative instead of the mayor- and an elected member in the committee as it would be demeaning to the mayor's post to be a member of the committee headed by municipal commissioner. “Another important change is that we have made it clear that to procure a license under the street vendor policy the vendor needs to be residing in Ahmedabad for last 10 years," said Vora.
The report notes that there will be four committees -- town vending committee, monitoring committee, local area committee and ward level vending committee. There would also be timely inspection and it would be the committee's responsibility to see the smooth implementation of the policy.
Cept has proposed to divide the city into three zones: green, red and amber. In the green zone, vendors can do business without license in the residential areas where roads are less than 15m wide.
In amber zone, vendors can do business in designated areas with less than 15m wide roads for three hours in morning and evening each. Red zones will not have any vendors' activity and areas which have more than 30m wide roads with hectic activities fall in the red zone. Cept has also proposed green vending market, where an informal market with no restriction in vendor's activity is developed.
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