Evicted Night Food Court vendors begin indefinite strike

A ample fig of vendors displaced from the fashionable Night Food Court astatine Old Jail Road successful Visakhapatnam person began an indefinite onslaught adjacent the Gandhi Statue astatine the Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC) building, opposing the civic body’s removal of their shops nether ‘Operation LUNGS’ successful September past year, citing irregularities, and delays successful allotting caller shops.

The vendors said that though six months person passed since the nutrient tribunal was cleared, and the GVMC had assured that eligible beneficiaries would beryllium allotted shops successful a systematic manner, nary steps person been taken truthful acold for their rehabilitation. They stated that the nonaccomplishment of concern has pushed them into terrible fiscal distress, arsenic the nutrient tribunal was their superior root of livelihood.