For the first time in history, PM Khan launched Ehsaas street hawkers initiative for poor Pakistanis
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After benefiting millions of deserving people, the government has launched the Ehsaas Street Hawkers initiative to ensure their socio-economic uplift.
In the first phase, the program is being piloted in Islamabad with a collaboration among the Capital Development Authority (CDA), Islamabad Capital Territory Administration (ICTA), the Metropolitan Corporation Islamabad (MCI), and the Pakistan Institute of Development Economics (PIDE) under Mazdoor Ka Ehsaas program.
Under this initiative, around 200 vendors in Islamabad have received vending licenses issued by the municipality and new eco-friendly carts.
A beneficiary of the Ehsaas Streer Hawkers initiative from G-11, Syed Tahir Sardar, said that he was happy that any government heeded the concerns of the street vendors.
“This is for the first time in the history that any government paid heed to the concerns of the street vendors and took steps to ensure their respectable earning through providing them a proper legal space, license certificate, and new eco-friendly carts,” he said.
Sardar, who repairs watches, said that many other people like him have benefited from this scheme.
“Earlier, we were facing issues due to sitting illegally in the main markets and bearing loss whenever Capital Development Authority (CDA) launched encroachment operations,” he said.
