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Irritated with the ongoing drive of the Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC), hundreds street vendors in the city took to the on Tuesday to protest the removal of roadside eateries and vendors from different parts of the city. The municipal corporation has embarked on the mission to clear the roadside eateries from the arterial roads and in the busy lanes in different municipal zones. The drive was kicked started last month from the central zone by removing over 500 larris from different areas including Chowk Bazaar, Bhagal, Bhaga Talav etc. Hundreds of street vendors from different parts of the city converged at Mahatma Gandhi statute in Chowk Bazaar and participated in a huge rally to submit memorandum to the municipal commissioner. The vendors shouted slogans against the corporation officials for harassing the poor vendors and snatching away the daily bread for the thousands of people in the city. In the last one month, SMC's anti-encroachment cell has removed more than 2,000 roadside eateries, allegedly causing problems in the smooth flow of traffic. Salim Gadhyali, convenor of SVA said, "The municipal corporation is not implementing the Supreme Court guidelines for forming town vending committee. It is the question of thousands of people attached directly or indirectly with the larri business. It is the question of the children studying schools who have not paid monthly fees. They can't just snatch away the source of our livelihood."
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Street vendors, hawkers, Surat, India, municipal cooperation, town vending committee, encroachment, livelihood, unorganized sector, migrant labour
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