SRINAGAR, Nov. 2 -- The administration in Srinagar is engaging consultants to formulate a plan for smart management of street vendors in the Srinagar city.

The plan involves relocation and re-arrangement of street vendors based on a comprehensive management plan to regulate their manner of operation aimed at reducing the ill-effects of indiscriminate occupation of public spaces and to improve the conditions of street vendors.

It includes smart solutions to the problem of unregulated vending bringing the registered street vendors under the ambit of an organised sector involved in business giving them a space and opportunities where their trade and conditions can flourish.

This involves validation of their operation through smart registrat...