Authority: High Court of Odisha, Cuttack
Order Date: 08 July 2026
Case Overview
- Petitioners (a group of street vendors operating at Kalinga Nagar, Ward No.23, Bhubaneswar for 15‑17 years) filed W.P.(C) No.22058 of 2025 seeking rehabilitation under the Street Vendors (Protection of Livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending) Act, 2014 and related schemes.
- Opposite parties include the State of Odisha and Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC). The petitioners allege BMC intends to evict them without rehabilitation; many lack valid street‑vending certificates or identity cards.
- BMC, through counsel Manoj Kumar Panda, raised a preliminary objection on maintainability, citing differing statuses of the petitioners’ licences and expired certificates.
- The Court, after considering the grievance, ordered the Town Vending Committee of BMC to be impleaded as Opposite Party No.5.
Final Outcome
- Petitioners must file fresh individual applications for grant or renewal of street‑vending certificates in Form‑II of the Scheme within two weeks of this order, attaching all relevant documents.
- The Town Vending Committee (Opposite Party No.5) shall consider each application within one month of filing, using an authenticated copy of this order, and must communicate its decision to each applicant.
- The Court disposed of the writ petition without examining the merits of each petitioner’s case, limiting its direction to procedural compliance under the Act.
Topics: Street Vendors Act; Municipal Rehabilitation