Street Vendors Protest At BBMP Office Over Non-Issue Of ID Cards thenewsminute.com

Hundreds of street vendors sat in protest on Monday outside the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike’s (BBMP) South Zone office, after they were not given identity cards by the civic body. An identity card from the BBMP helps street vendors avail government schemes like loans and health insurance schemes. The IDs have not been issued even though officials have conducted surveys close to a year ago in September 2017.

The survey by the BBMP officials were initiated following a Karnataka High Court order which was hearing petitions about hardships faced by street vendors, in the form of extortion and harassment by local strongmen and police. Babu, president of Bengaluru Jilla Beedhi Vyapari Sanghatanegala Okkuta, said, “We will not leave until we are provided by ID cards.”