<p>A day Biocon chairperson <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/city/biocon-chief-activists-twitter-702893.html" target="_blank">Kiran Mazumdar Shaw and an activist engaged in a spat</a> over the eviction of street vendors from Madiwala, more netizens joined the debate on Wednesday.</p>.<p>The deliberation was is it important to make way for pedestrians on encroached footpaths or to look at the livelihood of street vendors before evicting them.</p>.<p>It all started with Kiran tweeting on Tuesday: “Excellent work but please ensure encroachers don’t reappear,” to which Vinay Sreenivasa, activist and a representative from Bengaluru District Street Vendor’s Organisation had hit back by tweeting: “Pls learn the law Madam. Street Vending is legal. It's protected by the Street Vendors Act. Stop criminalising the poor.”</p>.<p>More netizens joined in to express their opinions.</p>.<p>A twitter handle by the name Incredible Indian mentioned: “Hello Mr Vinay not sure if you are a Bengalurean and travel on that route every day. The double road from Madiwala PS to Krupanidhi College is completely taken over by these vendors choking traffic. @BBMPCOMM should provide space to these folks next to silk board flyover.”</p>.<p>For which, Vinay had responded by tweeting: “Hello. I am a Banglurean. Ille huttiddu, ille beladiddu. (I am born and brought up here) I am not denying that there might have been no issues. But there is a systemic way to address it. Not unilateral evictions. Notice should be given, alternate place has to be chosen etc. See my other tweets for details”</p>.<p>Vinay further tweeted to Kiran about street vendor laws: “See sec 3(3) of the act - (3) No street vendor shall be evicted or, as the case may be, relocated till the survey specified under sub-section (1) has been completed and the certificate of vending is issued.”</p>.<p>Responding to this, Nitin Sheshadri, president of Koramangala 3rd block Resident Welfare Association tweeted, “I will counter with Section 3(2) of the Act which restricts street vendors to 2.5 % of ward population. There were almost 2000 people employed by the shops. Largest shops had 3 to 4 attendants. If a large shop with attendants is a "street vendor" then I am the Emperor of Japan.”</p>.<p>Even Ashwath Narayan, MLA of Malleshwaram, tweeted, “While I'm all for the hard working street vendors earning their livelihood, I also agree with @kiranshaw that hawking should be done in designated zones. @BBMPCOMM needs to get its act together and put an end to all of this under the guidance of the existing laws.”</p>
<p>A day Biocon chairperson <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/city/biocon-chief-activists-twitter-702893.html" target="_blank">Kiran Mazumdar Shaw and an activist engaged in a spat</a> over the eviction of street vendors from Madiwala, more netizens joined the debate on Wednesday.</p>.<p>The deliberation was is it important to make way for pedestrians on encroached footpaths or to look at the livelihood of street vendors before evicting them.</p>.<p>It all started with Kiran tweeting on Tuesday: “Excellent work but please ensure encroachers don’t reappear,” to which Vinay Sreenivasa, activist and a representative from Bengaluru District Street Vendor’s Organisation had hit back by tweeting: “Pls learn the law Madam. Street Vending is legal. It's protected by the Street Vendors Act. Stop criminalising the poor.”</p>.<p>More netizens joined in to express their opinions.</p>.<p>A twitter handle by the name Incredible Indian mentioned: “Hello Mr Vinay not sure if you are a Bengalurean and travel on that route every day. The double road from Madiwala PS to Krupanidhi College is completely taken over by these vendors choking traffic. @BBMPCOMM should provide space to these folks next to silk board flyover.”</p>.<p>For which, Vinay had responded by tweeting: “Hello. I am a Banglurean. Ille huttiddu, ille beladiddu. (I am born and brought up here) I am not denying that there might have been no issues. But there is a systemic way to address it. Not unilateral evictions. Notice should be given, alternate place has to be chosen etc. See my other tweets for details”</p>.<p>Vinay further tweeted to Kiran about street vendor laws: “See sec 3(3) of the act - (3) No street vendor shall be evicted or, as the case may be, relocated till the survey specified under sub-section (1) has been completed and the certificate of vending is issued.”</p>.<p>Responding to this, Nitin Sheshadri, president of Koramangala 3rd block Resident Welfare Association tweeted, “I will counter with Section 3(2) of the Act which restricts street vendors to 2.5 % of ward population. There were almost 2000 people employed by the shops. Largest shops had 3 to 4 attendants. If a large shop with attendants is a "street vendor" then I am the Emperor of Japan.”</p>.<p>Even Ashwath Narayan, MLA of Malleshwaram, tweeted, “While I'm all for the hard working street vendors earning their livelihood, I also agree with @kiranshaw that hawking should be done in designated zones. @BBMPCOMM needs to get its act together and put an end to all of this under the guidance of the existing laws.”</p>
