Gurgaon street vendors get biometric identity cards

A total of 14,017 vendors have already been given biometric identity cards and they will soon receive their permanent business places.

The Municipal Corporation of Gurgaon (MCG) will be issuing biometric identity cards to all street vendors under its jurisdiction. This comes after a biometric survey was conducted by MCG last month for rehabilitation of street vendors following a Supreme Court directive.

According to the survey carried out in 35 wards, there are 14,175 vendors, of whom 10,654 are fixed vendors and 3,521 who do not operate from fixed locations.

A total of 14,017 vendors have already been given biometric identity cards and they will soon receive their permanent business places.

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“We carried out this survey so that we can rehabilitate vendors in the city in a systematic manner, without disturbing the entire administration of the city,” MCG commissioner Praveen Kumar said. This is the second time that a biometric survey is being carried out in two years. The previous one was found to have errors in it.

The identification card has to be renewed every three years. It carries the name, address, photograph and family details of a vendor. It will also have a vendor code number, nominee, type of business and vending location, MCG officials said.

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