PANJIM: The North Goa Deputy Collector has assured the fruit and vegetable vendors, who were displaced from near the Goa Medical College and Hospital (GMC), Bambolim that the newly built kiosks will be handed over to them for rehabilitation before the Ganesh Chaturthi festival.
All the kiosks outside GMC were demolished last year as a part of widening of the road. PWD had taken up the work of rehabilitating displaced kiosk vendors following protest by the displaced vendors, who were operating their business for decades.
Speaking to mediapersons, GMC kiosk vendors’ leader Domnick Pereira said that the deputy collector has assured that the rehabilitation process will be completed before the Ganesh Chaturthi festival. He said that process of drafting lease agreement is currently on.
Pereira said that permanent sheds have been constructed to rehabilitate the vendors, the process which was delayed due to the code of conduct in view of panchayat polls.
“We are confident that the vendors would be rehabilitated as assured,” he said.
Meanwhile, the vendors demanded that food carts and vans, who are presently selling their goods illegally outside GMCH premise, should be directed to stop their operation and shift.
