{"id":15734,"date":"2014-01-08T16:47:02","date_gmt":"2014-01-08T11:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/?p=15734"},"modified":"2014-01-08T16:47:02","modified_gmt":"2014-01-08T11:17:02","slug":"street-vendors-in-the-city-to-go-hi-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/street-vendors-in-the-city-to-go-hi-tech\/","title":{"rendered":"Street Vendors in the city to go Hi-tech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>#EnteThiruvananthapuram:<\/strong> Trivandrum City Corporation&#8217;s <strong>Suvidha Project<\/strong>, a welfare scheme, meant to rehabilitate street vendors in the city is finally taking off after a delay of 3 years.<\/p>\n<p>Under the Suvidha Project, corporation will provide modern pushcarts, official registration, identity cards, and uniforms to street vendors. Initially, thirty vendors near Museum and Shangumugham Beach have been chosen as the beneficiaries of the project. In the next phase, carts would be distributed to 50 more vendors at <a title=\"Shanghumugham Beach \u2013 Run your toes through the sand\" href=\"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/shanghumugham-beach\/\" target=\"_blank\">Shanghumughom<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/listing.entecity.com\/business\/medical-college-hospital\" target=\"_blank\">medical college,<\/a> and Museum. The plan was to distribute the carts to a total of 176 vendors. Suvidha project is implemented by Kerala State Urban Development Project (KSUDP) at a cost of Rs1.5 crore<\/p>\n<p>The pushcarts are manufactured by SIDCO and each cart costs Rs98,000. The modern push cart prioritises proper disposal of waste and storage of water. Based on the feedback from vendors, corporation will change the design of the carts to suit the needs.<\/p>\n<p>The project was first announced in 2011 but was delayed due to confusion in choosing beneficiaries and an implementing agency. Many street vendors were evicted in the past few weeks, despite protests from various organisations. With the Suvidha project, corporation aims to create hawking zones. Vendors have to be wary of eviction now, but this project legitimizes their mode of livelihood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#EnteThiruvananthapuram: Trivandrum City Corporation&#8217;s Suvidha Project, a welfare scheme, meant to rehabilitate street vendors in the city is finally taking off after a delay of 3 years. Under the Suvidha Project, corporation will provide modern pushcarts, official registration, identity cards, and uniforms to street vendors. Initially, thirty vendors near Museum and Shangumugham Beach have been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":15787,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,4],"tags":[452],"class_list":["post-15734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-city-news","category-general","tag-trivandrum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15734"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}