Synopsis: HRF said the GVMC has been evicting vendors without adhering to due process, often acting on impromptu oral orders. These “arbitrary” actions were a direct assault on the Constitutional right to livelihood, and stripped vendors of their wares, besides harassing them, and undermined their dignity.

Condemning the Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC)’s “unlawful and violent” eviction of street vendors, the Human Rights Forum (HRF) has called for an immediate halt to the expulsion.

The GVMC’s move, violating The Street Vendors (Protection of Livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending) Act, 2014, has displaced more than 2,850 roadside vendors and small shop owners, the HRF said in a media release on Wednesday, 24 September. Further, it has plunged thousands of famil

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