Street vendors to get PM AtmaNirbhar benefits

Mysuru: Street vendors in the city can heave a sigh of relief as Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) has decided to provide benefits of PM Street Vendors AtmaNirbhar Nidhi to those vendors who don’t necessary certificates.
MCC has conducted several surveys to identify food vendors and street vendors. After the latest survey in 2018, 1,856 vendors were identified and by December 2019, ID cards were issued to 1,760 eligible vendors.
However, the vendors who were left out from the list had demanded MCC to conduct a resurvey and said more than 6000 vendors in the city haven’t been included in the list.
MCC additional commissioner M N Shashikumar said special micro-credit facilities provided to vendors by the central government is available to those who have a certificate or ID card or have been identified as vendors in a survey.
Street Vendors Association of India national vice-president and Mysuru Street Vendors Association general secretary Bhaskar Srinivas Raje Urs told TOI, “There are vendors who are yet to get certificates and ID cards. Some of them have been left out in the survey list as they did not show interest and provide documents during survey. All genuine vendors must be given ID cards.”
However, MCC commissioner Gurudatta Hegde told TOI that the corporation had planned to conduct another survey in March but could not do so due the Covid-19 pandemic.
“We will conduct the survey soon. But we will ensure we recognize vendors who are not in the list and ensure they too get benefits,” he said.