Without prejudice to any other provisions of the Act, the Town Vending Committee shall perform the following functions and duties, namely:- (i) to conduct surveys for street vending and to take final decision about vending zones along with their holding capacity as worked out by the local authority under the scheme;
Explanation:-For deciding the vending zones, the Committee shall have the base materials or data from the local authority. The bye-laws and the planning will identify the vending zones; (ii) where the Committee considers it necessary to change zoning or the area to be allotted to individual vendor, it may draw the attention of the local authority to suitably modify the plan. The Committee shall take final decision thereon after obtaining the opinion of the local authority; (iii) while making recommendations and suggestions regarding any changes in the vending zones, the Committee shall take into consideration the road width, traffic flow and the pedestrian movement in the area concerned; (iv) The Town Vending Committee if it is satisfied that such certificate of vending has been secured by the street vendor through misrepresentation or fraud or that the vendor has committed any breach of the terms and conditions of the certificate of vending or any other terms and conditions specified for regulating street vending under the Act or the rules or the scheme made under the Act, it may cancel or suspend the certificate of vending of street vendors: Provided that no order of cancellation or suspension of a certificate of vending by the Town Vending Committee shall be made unless the vendor has been given an opportunity of being heard: Provided further that any such order for cancellation or suspension of a certificate of vending by the Town Vending Committee shall specify the reasons for such cancellation or suspension in the written order communicated to the vendor; (v) to regulate timings for vending to ensure non-congestion of public spaces; (vi) to ensure enforcement of corrective measures against defiance by street vendors; (vii) to follow up cases of dispute pending before the dispute redressal committee and the local authority; (viii) to carry out social audit as specified in the scheme, (ix) to declare, on the recommendation of the local authority, the natural market, weekly market, heritage market, festive market, seasonal market, night bazaar and niche market with their exact location and the specific period in case of seasonal market or festive market. Where such markets are evolving a new thing, the committee shall get the necessary survey carried on of the area and such other aspects as it deems necessary and declare the place as a market of any of the aforesaid mentioned categories, depending on the situation;
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(x) to furnish, from time to time, to the State Government such returns as may be necessary to be submitted or prescribed by rules made under the Act; (xi) to furnish recommendations to the local authority in relation to the preparation of plan to promote the vocation of street vendors; (xii) to provide comments to the State Government for undertaking promotional measures of making available credit, insurance and other welfare schemes of social security for the street vendors; (xiii) to raise awareness among the people, the role of street vendors in the economy; (xiv) to ensure maintenance of records relating to town vending matters; and (xv) to perform such other functions as assigned by the local authority or the State Government for effective implementation of the Act and these rules;