Without prejudice to any other provisions of the Act, a town vending committee shall perform following functions and duties, namely:-
(i) to conduct surveys for street vending and to take final decision about vending zones alongwith their holding capacity as worked out by the local authority under the scheme ;
Explanation .- For deciding the vending zones, the Town Vending Committee shall have the base materials or data from the local authority.
The bye-laws and the planning will identify the vending zones, 42
(ii) where the committee considers it necessary to change zoning or the area to be allotted to individual vendor, it may draw attention of the local authority to suitably modify the plan. After obtaining opinion of the local authority, the committee shall take final decision thereon,
(iii) while making recommendations and suggesting 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) to issue, withhold, renew, cancel or suspend the certificate of vending;
(v) to carry out the social audit as specified in the scheme;
(vi) to declare, on the recommendations of the local authority, the natural market, weekly market, heritage market, festive market, seasonal market, night bazar 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, the committee shall get the necessary survey carried on of the area and such other aspects as it deems necessary and declare the place a market of any of the aforesaid mentioned categories, depending on the situation,
(vii) to furnish, from time to time, to the State Government such returns as required under the Act and the rules,
(viii) to provide informations to the State Government for undertaking promotional measures of making available credit, insurance and other welfare schemes of social security for the street vendors,
(ix) to raise awareness among the people, the role of street vendors in the economy, and
(x) to perform such other functions as assigned by the local authority or the State Government for effective implementation of the provisions of the Act and rules made thereunder.