{"id":20535,"date":"2014-09-23T19:11:59","date_gmt":"2014-09-23T13:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/?p=20535"},"modified":"2014-09-23T19:11:59","modified_gmt":"2014-09-23T13:41:59","slug":"corporation-to-give-modern-pushcart-to-street-vendors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/corporation-to-give-modern-pushcart-to-street-vendors\/","title":{"rendered":"Corporation to give modern Pushcart to Street Vendors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In January, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/street-vendors-in-the-city-to-go-hi-tech\/\" target=\"_blank\">Trivandrum Corporation launched the Suvidha project<\/a> through which, corporation aims to provide modern pushcarts to the street vendors. Now based on various feedbacks from vendors, corporation has changed the design of the modern pushcart.<\/p>\n<p>The new design prepared by the Small Industries Development Corporation (SIDCO) will roll-out soon. The major changes have been made to the roof of the cart, which has now been extended to all sides. Earlier the vendors had complained about the lack of shade and seepage of water during the rain. The side panel of the cart has also been changed.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Initially, 30 vendors near Museum will get the modern pushcart and in the next phase, carts will be distributed to 50 more vendors at Shanghumughom, Medical College, General Hospital, and Museum.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>However, the size of the cart remains the same as that of the original version. There were complaints that there wasn\u2019t enough space for the vendors to sit and had to find other means. They also faced lack of storage space as the cars are designed only to display the items.<\/p>\n<p>Each cart costs Rs 98,000 and has facilities for proper disposal of waste and storage of water. Initially, 30 vendors near Museum will get the modern pushcart and in the next phase, carts will be distributed to 50 more vendors at Shanghumughom, Medical College, General Hospital, and Museum. The plan is to distribute the carts to a total of 176 vendors.<\/p>\n<p>Suvidha project is implemented by Kerala State Urban Development Project (KSUDP) at a cost of Rs 1.5 crore. Apart from pushcart, corporation will also provide official rregistration, identity cards, and uniforms to street vendors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In January, Trivandrum Corporation launched the Suvidha project through which, corporation aims to provide modern pushcarts to the street vendors. Now based on various feedbacks from vendors, corporation has changed the design of the modern pushcart. The new design prepared by the Small Industries Development Corporation (SIDCO) will roll-out soon. The major changes have been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":20602,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-city-news","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20535"}],"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=20535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}