28-05-2025
Town vending committee election to be held on May 30
The Tiruchi Corporation has made elaborate arrangements for the elections to the town vending committee on May 30 (Friday).
A total of 15 candidates are contesting in the election to constitute the street vending committee in Tiruchi city. Six representatives of street vendors will be elected under six categories, with one representative per category.
One representative each would be elected from the categories of Scheduled Caste, women, persons with disabilities, minorities, backward classes and general category. Officials said that there are about two to three candidates in each category.
According to the officials, elaborate arrangements have been made for the elections. Around six polling booths have been set up and every polling booth would have a presiding officer and three polling officials.
A total of 18 tables have been set up to facilitate the counting of votes. Revenue and Corporation officials have been appointed to carry out the elections and counting. Basic amenities such as drinking water and sanitary facilities were made.
The polling will be held from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Bishop Heber Higher Secondary School, Puthur. Counting of votes will be taken up at 6 p.m. the same day.
As many as 6,220 street vendors were provided with identity cards through a GPS-enabled survey conducted by the civic body. Earlier, about 5,231 street vendors were identified, and following a backlash, a new round of enrolment was carried out to include those who had been left out.
The election to the street vending committee was announced to regulate the business of street vendors in all five zones of the city without hindering public movement. A 15-member town vending committee will be formed following the election to make suggestions for finalising the vending zones and no-vending zones for business.
The election is mandated under Section 38 (1) of the Street Vendors (Protection of Livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending) Act, 2014, and Tamil Nadu Street Vendors (Protection of Livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending) Rules, 2015.
