Street vendors of the State Capital kept their shops closed on Wednesday in protest against the encroachment drive of the Ranchi Municipal Corporation (RMC). Around 200 shops in the entire Morhabadi area were closed and the shopkeepers in the procession reached near Morhabadi Maidan Gate Number Three and the procession turned into a meeting.
In the meeting, the shopkeepers decided that they should meet the Municipal Commissioner and submit a memorandum so that they can get any solution of the day-to-day problem.
They said that in the name of encroachment the municipal corporation encroachment team of the often torture shopkeepers of the area, sometimes they lift the shopkeepers' chair-table and their stall forcibly and sometimes they misbehave with women.