Mangaluru, April 1: Protest was staged on Wednesday April 1st, in front of the Commissioner’s chamber in Mangalore City Corporation by the CITU demanding alternative arrangements for the street side vendors. Over the past one month, the MCC has been razing the road side petty shops.
Sunil Kumar Bajal, representative of roadside vendors said, Since the past 4 years, MCC has been intending to vacate the roadside vendors, but they have failed to make alternative arrangements to them.
Town vending committee was formed and four meetings were convened. A survey was also conducted. They had promised us to give ID cards and had called us for the same when Vinay Kumar Sorake, minister for urban development visited Mangaluru for a programme. But the ID cards were not issued, he said.
Continuing further he said, a protest was held on March 19th in front of MCC and later a memorandum was submitted to the deputy commissioner of revenue Raju Mogaveera. He had promised us that a meeting would be called and appropriate decision would be taken. But they neither called us nor have they taken any decision, he said.
Meanwhile, they have continued the raids and seized our goods. When we had been to collect our goods back, they asked us to pay fine. But although the fine was paid, they have not returned our goods, he added.
The protesters vacated from the spot after Revenue DC Raju Mogaveera promised to convene a meeting on April 14th or 15th.
CITU President Mohammed Mustaffa, CITU Secretary Santhosh Kumar, were present during the protest.
