PRINCE KUMAR
Ranchi, Feb 3: The street food vendors of the Morhabadi ground area have agreed to the suggestions of the Ranchi Municipal Corporation to relocate to the Manya Palace and Park Prime Hotel.
At the same time, they have disagreed to move to the Morhabadi vegetable market and have demanded to get a place near Oxygen Park.
Representative of the street vendors, Roushan Kumar said, “We have agreed to relocate at two places but we have demanded to relocate near the oxygen park also and RMC has said to take decisions by today. The Morhabadi vegetable market will not be an appropriate place for the street food vendors and they will not be able to attract the customers to their stalls because of which we have demanded that Oxygen Park will be a third option for the relocation.”
“We have supported RMC in choosing a proper place for the relocation of the vendors and will continue to support in curbing the crime also from the place in whichever way possible,” Kumar said.
RMC officials said that the team has reached here on the instruction of the RMC Commissioner to chalk out the plan and locations for the resettlement. For which, 2 locations have been finalised and the third location will be decided after the meeting of the senior officials.
“The vendors have suggested installing food courts near oxygen park which will be decided by the senior officials and then all 157 of them will be accommodated to their respective places,” RMC official said.
Street vendors at the Morhabadi Ground have kept their shops shut for nearly a week after Ranchi administration clamped prohibitory orders after the shootout which killed one man and grievously injured two others in broad daylight.
On Tuesday, former CM Raghubhar Das met them and urged his intervention into the government’s tough stand against them.
Meanwhile, the Ranchi administration on Wednesday directed all private commercial establishments to install CCTV cameras on their premises and ensure that video footage of 30 days is stored. The notification, undersigned by Ranchi DC Chhavi Ranjan, said the need for CCTVs was felt after the criminal act on Morhabadi Ground on January 27 as a means to curb crimes in the city.
