The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) has started validating the list of street vendors as per the survey conducted during 2015-16 for making a database.
On completion of validation after five to six days, assistance of Rs 10,000 each would be given to the vendors, affected by the severe Cyclon Fani, through direct benefit transfer (DBT) mode, as per the announcement made by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik earlier.
The city has 21,483 street vendors as per the previous survey. They include 2,440 mobile vendors, 1,276 peripatetic vendors and 17, 767 stationary vendors. However, before the disbursal of the assistance after the severe cyclonic storm, the validation is necessary to check the listed individuals under the above categories.
The validation has started across several wards in presence of Ward Officers, Community Organisers and also the office-bearers of the vending zones in respective wards.
It may be mentioned that under the Chief Minister’s Relief Package Rs 2,500 cash component was given to 92,721 beneficiaries and rice component of 50 kg was given to 1,00,005 persons.
On the other hand, an additional monthly pension was given to 13,847 people out of 21,512 beneficiaries under the various social security schemes.
In order the help the people in distress after the severe cyclonic storm non-card holders (without ration cards) were also given the cash component of Rs 2,500 and out of total 8,376 such families 6,016 people were given assistance by June 18.