CPI and AITUC Leaders Demand Protection for Street Vendors Amid Anti-Encroachment Actions in Ranchi

Ranchi: CPI and All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC) leaders from the state and other parts of the country on Sunday criticised the action taken by the administration against street vendors in the name of anti-encroachment drive, adding that several provisions of existing laws are being violated in the action.

While addressing media at CPI’s state office, the leaders also demanded that the administration should issue identity cards to vendors, hold elections and activate the town vendor committee, stop use of bulldozers without notice and confiscate valuables from vendors as per rules.

CPI state secretary Mahendra Pathak said the administration should discontinue uprooting the vendors before rehabilitating them in different places. The CPI leaders said that there has been no survey to identify the vendors in the past nine years, adding that the tenure of the committee has ended four years ago.