Dimapur, April 25 (MExN): The Naga Council Dimapur (NCD) today appealed the concerned authorities to allow local vendors to continue their businesses or designate suitable place for so as to “encourage them to continue their honest way of earning their livelihood.”
The appeal from the NCD came amid the debate over shifting of food truck vendors from the City Clock Tower junction Dimapur, consequent to a directive issued by the Dimapur Police on April 14 stating that all ‘street vendors/hawkers illegally occupying footpath and roadside parking areas will be removed.’
In this connection, the NCD said that while it appreciates the concerned authorities for banning all the footpaths and roadsides vendors to ease out traffic movement, earning avenues of vendors, “especially our Naga locals are being dismembered.”
The source of sustenance of many families and individuals are now put to test, it said.
Accordingly, the Council stated that any act implementation “which threatens the core source of financial income for especially the local vendors will be touted to be too expensive a cost, to whatever be the reason behind any implementation, citing whatever law and order issues attached to it.”
To buttress its point, the NCD highlighted that Naga local unemployed youths, women and individual families being most affected by financial crunches was an “undeniable reality.”
It is understood that these group of mostly Naga populace starting to venture into business activities in Dimapur commercial city to earn their livelihood in recent years as a result of compulsion by their growing need to secure their necessities of life, it said.
As such, the burgeoning food courts along the roadside by the Nagas to earn their livelihood was “always hailed as honest, innovative step for anyone trying to live by honest and hard working means,” added the NCD in a press release issued by General Secretary, LK Peter Anal and Vice President (Admn), Holito Aye.
Consequently, the NCD contented that the move of the concerned authorities is dispelling and discouraging the local business vendors and seeing as well as hearing the plight of the affected vendors appealed the latter to allow local vendors to continue their businesses in the earlier locations.
