Street vendors protest, seek rehabilitation before eviction

BHUBANESWAR : Street vendors on Thursday staged a demonstration in front of the north zonal office of Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) demanding immediate withdrawal of the decision to evict makeshift shops ahead of the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (PBD) conclave in the capital city.

Hundreds of street vendors took out a protest march at Nalco square and gheraoed the zonal office of BMC seeking fulfilment of their seven-point charter of demands. The blockade disrupted traffic on the busy Nandankanan-Jaydev Vihar road for some time.

The agitators demanded that the civic body should initiate measures for their rehabilitation before carrying out any eviction. The rehabilitation should be around the same place from where they would be evicted.