5. Formation of Town Vending Committee (TVC).

(a) Approve, with or without changes, the vending spaces identified by the Superintendent and/or recommended by the Ward Vending Committees.
(b) Categorize and designate the vending spaces as 'No Vending Space' and 'Restricted Vending Space' and 'Regular Vending Space'.
(c) Review from time to time and amend, alter or change the designation of vending spaces in (b) above according to the changing trends and needs of the city.
(d) Prescribe the maximum number of street vendors for each of the restricted and regular vending space, bearing in mind the economic viability of business.
(e) Restrict hawking at certain places and certain hours in public interest and to facilitate smooth and safe movement of traffic.
(f) Restrict entry and movement of all vehicles including bicycles belonging to vendors, shoppers and others in and around the vending spaces to make shopping in the vending zones safe, de-congested and hassle-free.
(g) Designate Natural Markets in the Corporation area.
(h) Promote access of street vendors and hawkers to such services as credit, skill development, housing health care, social security and capacity building.
(i) Promote vendors, interests through promotion of such events as Vendors' Bazar and Street Food Festivals.
(j) Prescribe norms for health and hygiene and sanitation conditions in vending spaces and zones.
(k) Promote, where necessary, organization of street vendors in the form of unions/cooperatives/associations and self-help groups to facilitate their collective empowerment and betterment of services in the vending spaces through self-regulation.
(l) Prevent child labour in vending business and facilities to rehabilitate children found involved in vending.
(m) Define offences and fix fines and penalties for each offence and revise these from time to time.
(n) Estimate or cause estimation of the Earning Potential Factor (EPF) to facilitate fixing of rates for royalty and monthly fee for various vending spaces.
(o) Fix rates for the royalty for grant of vending rights and monthly fee on a fair and equitable basis, with due consideration to the EPF, and review and, if desired, revise it annually.