HYDERABAD: Mobile vendors operating within the Municipal Corporation of Hyderabad limits will soon have to pay a nominal fee for registration and getting an identity card and in return, they will be saved from any harassment.

The corporation issued a public notification on Saturday identifying 308 hawker zones on Saturday for regulating street and mobile vendors and also to keep footpaths free from encroachments.

A week's time has been given for receiving objections and suggestions for any change in the locations and road stretches coming under different zones from the general public, after which a final report will be submitted to the High Court.

Faced with mounting political pressure, MCH appears to have made a few alterations, mainly shifting some of the proposed areas in the red zone to amber and green. Reds will now be 87 (as against 118 earlier), greens will be 119 including roads of residential areas (90) and ambers will be 102 (72).

Vendors will be disallowed on carriageway of roads and splay portion of junctions. They will be allowed at a `safe distance' from sensitive and objectionable areas like electric transformers, public toilets, garbage collection points, nalas, water bodies, religious places, schools, etc.

Officials claimed that lot of discussion and thought went into preparing the zones with the views of traffic police, political parties and affected persons taken into account. Mobile vendors are totally banned in red zones, allowed in green zones and have restricted business hours in amber zones.

The document was issued following the directions of the High Court to make the footpaths safe for pedestrians.

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