KARACHI: The commissioner of Karachi on Friday said that he believed that street vendors were not encroachments.
It was a legal business and law permitted to do this business with formal permission. Speaking as a chief guest at a seminar on “Street Vendor Project” organised at a local hotel, Commissioner Iftikhar Shallwani said that the government had no intention to ban the street vendors.
He said the government considered that street vendors earned their livelihood and contributed to economy through this business, however they should be regulated and registered, he added.
Published in Dawn, October 5th, 2019
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