“Implement national policy”

Staff Reporter

— Photo: N. RajeshBasic rights:Members of National Association of Street Vendors of India take out awareness rally in Tuticorin on Tuesday.

Tuticorin: With the objective of creating awareness among the vendors about their rights, which they were entitled to, the members of the National Association of Street Vendors of India took out an awareness rally here on Tuesday.

S. Murugan, Programme Manager, NASVI, who led the rally, said the rally was taken out with a view to urge the government to implement the national policy for urban street vendors. He said the government should take concrete steps to set up welfare board for the street vendors. “The National policy insists upon legal status for the vendors, provision of identity cards, markets for the street vendors and social security schemes for their welfare,” he said. Lots of street vendors including fishermen and fisherwomen took part.

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