Hawking provides employment need to balance rights of shopkeepers shoppers too HC
New Delhi Oct 25 PTIHow can we talk of developing Delhi into a city like London in another decade or so without focussing on the planning aspect the Delhi High Court wondered on Monday while hearing an issue related to unauthorised hawkers and street vendors in marketplacesThe high court however said it was aware that hawking provides employment to many especially from the lower strata of society and a balance has to be made between the rights of people going for marketing vendors and those who rent shopsWe talk of developing Delhi into a city like London in another decade or so How will we achieve that What happens to the planning aspect it saidWhile referring to the situation in Connaught Place and Nehru Place a bench of Justices Vipin Sanghi and Jasmeet Singh said people cant even walk in Connaught Place as there are vendors occupying the space which has become a businessIn Nehru Place you cant even walk as street vendors have made it their permanent place of business We had to take suo motu cognisance of a fire incident at Nehru Place The matter is presently before another bench The condition of the Nehru Place market is like a slum The need is to decide on the number of permissible vendors in a particular area while taking into account the plan of the place the bench saidThe court was hearing a batch of petitions relating to challenge to the Street Vendors Act and by street vendors seeking various benefits including regularisation under the lawSenior advocate Sanjeev Ralli appeared for the New Delhi Traders Association which represents shop owners and operators in the Connaught Place CP area that is Rajiv Chowk and Indira Chowk The court has recently directed the removal of unauthorised vendors and hawkers in the Connaught Place and Nehru Place areaThe bench said it will look into the challenge to the Street Vendors Act as it was willing to take the bull by its hornsIt said it was conscious that street vending provides employment to many especially from lower strata of the society and people can buy goods at lower prices but there is a need to balance the rights of the shopkeepers who pay lakhs of rupees for rent of shops or people who want free access to the market area and of street vendorsThe bench said it was against street hawking and that we all have grown up buying from street hawkers we still go to kirana shops street food vendors for our day-to-day needs The bench said people go to malls only for buying high-end clothes and not for daily need items and added that nobody is against street hawkers and both should co-exist and it just want that the city is not unreasonably crowded due to themThe bench said more than 50 per cent of people are representing vendors interests on the TVC and added we know the weakness of our system unfortunately The court listed the matter for further hearing on October 30 PTI SKV SKV RKS RKS
New Delhi Oct 25 PTIHow can we talk of developing Delhi into a city like London in another decade or so without focussing on the planning aspect the Delhi High Court wondered on Monday while hearing an issue related to unauthorised hawkers and street vendors in marketplacesThe high court however said it was aware that hawking provides employment to many especially from the lower strata of society and a balance has to be made between the rights of people going for marketing vendors and those who rent shopsWe talk of developing Delhi into a city like London in another decade or so How will we achieve that What happens to the planning aspect it saidWhile referring to the situation in Connaught Place and Nehru Place a bench of Justices Vipin Sanghi and Jasmeet Singh said people cant even walk in Connaught Place as there are vendors occupying the space which has become a businessIn Nehru Place you cant even walk as street vendors have made it their permanent place of business We had to take suo motu cognisance of a fire incident at Nehru Place The matter is presently before another bench The condition of the Nehru Place market is like a slum The need is to decide on the number of permissible vendors in a particular area while taking into account the plan of the place the bench saidThe court was hearing a batch of petitions relating to challenge to the Street Vendors Act and by street vendors seeking various benefits including regularisation under the lawSenior advocate Sanjeev Ralli appeared for the New Delhi Traders Association which represents shop owners and operators in the Connaught Place CP area that is Rajiv Chowk and Indira Chowk The court has recently directed the removal of unauthorised vendors and hawkers in the Connaught Place and Nehru Place areaThe bench said it will look into the challenge to the Street Vendors Act as it was willing to take the bull by its hornsIt said it was conscious that street vending provides employment to many especially from lower strata of the society and people can buy goods at lower prices but there is a need to balance the rights of the shopkeepers who pay lakhs of rupees for rent of shops or people who want free access to the market area and of street vendorsThe bench said it was against street hawking and that we all have grown up buying from street hawkers we still go to kirana shops street food vendors for our day-to-day needs The bench said people go to malls only for buying high-end clothes and not for daily need items and added that nobody is against street hawkers and both should co-exist and it just want that the city is not unreasonably crowded due to themThe bench said more than 50 per cent of people are representing vendors interests on the TVC and added we know the weakness of our system unfortunately The court listed the matter for further hearing on October 30 PTI SKV SKV RKS RKS
