Govt to set up 5 smart zones for street vendors in Srinagar

Govt to set up 5 smart zones for street vendors in Srinagar

SRINAGAR: Government is proposing to set up five smart zones to rehabilitate registered street vendors in the city.
The vendors can seen in major markets of the city including Batamaloo, Dalgate, Jehangir Chowk, Polo View, Hari Singh High Street (HSHS), Qamarwari, Parimpora, Hazratbal, Kak Sarai Karan Nagar and other areas of the Srinagar city
Earlier, Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC) had identified five vending zones to rehabilitate more than 3000 registered street vendors, but they failed to do so.
The five identifying spaces are Khalsa School Magarmal Bagh, Sector 6 Batamaloo, Sector 5 Dandarkha Batamaloo, Huzuri Bagh near Children Park and SRTC Pratap Park were identified for the specified vending zones.
“We are going to establish smart vending zones in five identified places in city. Margarmal Bagh will be a model vending zone and will help them to attract customers so that they too will earn money as well as administration will take a sign of relief,” an official said.
Detailed Project Report (DPR) has been framed and each smart vending zone will cost around Rs 4.5 crore.
While as per the official, all five zones will be technology driven and customer friendly. The vending cots will be fitted with GPS, solar panels, inbuilt refrigerator depending on the vending activity. The cots will have drinking water facility with LED display boards, inbuilt organic and inorganic dustbins.
Vending cots will be colour coded depending upon the vending activity. “For example vendor selling fruits and veggies will have green color code while vendor selling garments, electronics, shoe wear and other items will have different colour coding”, an official said.
Work on Magarmal Bagh will start soon and the project will be completed in June-July.
“By Geo-tagging them, we will have complete knowledge if any vendor will shift from the vending zone,” an official said.
As per the official, Margarmal Bagh will cater 200 vendors while as Sector 6 Batamaloo has capacity of accommodating around 400 vendors. Sector 5 Danderkha Batamaloo will cater around 500 vendors while Hazuri Bagh will cater to 150 vendors and remaining 533 will be accommodated in SRTC Pratap Park.

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