Mysuru: Mysuru-Kodagu MP Yaduveer Krishnadatta Chamaraja Wadiyar has instructed the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) officials to provide adequate facilities to the roadside vendors.

He was addressing a meeting of officials on The Street Vendors Act, in the Old Council Hall at the MCC premises recently.

Yaduveer Wadiyar said, it is essential to provide a conducive atmosphere for the roadside vendors to conduct their business. They should be provided loan at affordable rate of interest and social security, especially under PM SVANidhi Scheme. The benefits of Pradhan Mantri Vishwakarma Yojana should reach the eligible beneficiaries.

Earlier, to streamline the roadside vending, the vending zones and non-vending zones had been identified. However, over a period of time, the vending zones expanded, but in an unscientific manner, prompting the need to identify the vending and non-vending zones in the jurisdiction of all the MCC Zonal Office limits and submit a report, said Yaduveer Wadiyar.

Krishnaraja MLA T.S. Srivatsa said, Zonal Commissioners of MCC should set a deadline for the officers to identify the vending zones. The eligible vendors should be given identity cards to help their livelihood.

Chamaraja MLA K. Harishgowda said, street vendors should be provided the facilities without troubling the general public.

The officials informed the meeting that, under PM SVANidhi Scheme, about 30,000 roadside vendors of the city have enrolled, while MCC has issued ID cards to 3,416 vendors after identifying them. In the coming days too, eligible street vendors will be given ID after conducting survey. The Vending Zone built at Udayagiri and Ballal Circle in the city will be inaugurated soon, the officials added.

A senior member of Town Vending Committee said, there are no less than 15,000 roadside vendors, but hardly 1,500 have been issued ID by MCC. However, a few among them are not following the norms of running their business at the permitted spot.