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Municipal Corporation urges police help to implement tehbazari

Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI: The Municipal Corporation of Delhi has informed the Supreme Court that it will require the help of the Delhi police to implement the tehbazari scheme for grant of vending rights here. In a modified version of the scheme filed in the Court following an order on February 6, the civic body said that for a successful implementation of the scheme, the police's help was "sine qua non''.

The civic body urged the Court to issue specific directions to the police to extend all possible help to implement the scheme.

The scheme stated that the Ward Vending Committees had determined squatting, non-squatting and hawking and non-hawking zones on the basis of availability of open spaces and width of roads or footpaths without compromising with the free flow of pedestrians and vehicular traffic.

Allotment of sites for squatting and grant of hawking rights would be made on the basis of applications received , the scheme said. The number of sites will not exceed 2.5 per cent of the total population of that zone, the scheme stated.

The tehbazari sites would remain the property of the civic body, the scheme stated, adding that however mutation would be allowed that in case of death or permanent insanity of the allottees.

However, the scheme clarified that the tehbazari sites would be non-transferable except in case of death or permanent insanity of an allottee.

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