JCILPS reiterates call to evict vendors from footpath
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, April 30 2018:
While expressing dismay over the Government's inaction against non-locals who have been selling fruits on the footpath next to Bhairodon Maxwell High School, Thangal Keithel, the JCILPS has stated they would pay special attention to the matter.
Speaking to media persons at their Sega Road, Konjeng Hazari Leikai office today, JCILPS Women Wing convenor Samjetsabam Memcha Leima said that they had earlier asked the Government to shift the fruit sellers elsewhere within three days.
Rather than shifting the fruit sellers, the Government has been deploying police thereby encouraging the nonlocal vendors to ply their trade freely.
The school authority too had expressed keen desire to shift away the fruit sellers elsewhere but the Government has been paying no attention.
It evokes a serious question on the sincerity of Chief Minister N Biren regarding his repeated assurance to table a Bill which can effectively protect indigenous people from the onslaught of incessant influx, Memcha said.
Oh the other hand, team of the JCILPS Women Wing waited for two hours to talk about the non-local fruit sellers with IMC officials, the Mayor and Corporators.
But the team was not given any response and such attitude of the IMC officials is a matter of great concern, said the convenor.
Narrow lanes/gallis which run opposite to Rajen Dresses, Thangal Keithel where cosmetic and ornamental items are being sold can become a place of depravity for young women, she continued.
Most of the vendors dealing in cosmetic and ornamental items are non-local people and it is said that they are permitted to ply their trade there by the Labour Department.
The Government must formulate a policy under which vending articles at such narrow lanes is prohibited, demanded the JCILPS Women Wing convenor.