More than 40 women vendors under the Shree Jagannath Mahila Samiti, whose vending zone near the Science Park Square here were demolished recently, met Human Rights Commissioner Bira Kishore Mishra here on Friday and sought his intervention.
The irate women vendors said that the BDA and BMC staffs bulldozed 67 shops in the vending zone without the knowledge of the traders and any resettlement arrangements defying the Supreme Court verdict and the Street Vendors Act.
Besides arrest of the BMC Commissioner, the vendors demanded that all the BDA, BMC and police staffs who have defied the rules be sacked from their jobs and their salaries and GPFs be paid towards the traders as compensation.
later, the Human Rights Commissioners assured them that he would ask the BMC Commissioner and Urban Secretary to submit a report on the matter within four weeks and the hearing be held on December 4.
All Orissa Roadside Vendors’ Association president Pratap Sahu, Mahila Samiti president Golap Bairiganjan and noted advocate Biswapriya Kanungo were present during the meet.