Red zones off-limits to hawkers

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After repeatedly failing to prevent hawkers from taking over the capital’s roads, Dhaka South City Corporation is set to introduce a new system, in a bid to reduce traffic congestion.

DSCC will be dividing city roads into three categories — red, yellow and green.

Red zones will be completely off-limits to hawkers. They will, however, be able to set up their stalls on footpaths and roads in yellow and green zones on conditions based on time and weekday.

At a programme yesterday, DSCC Mayor Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh said hawkers will not be permitted to set up stalls in red zones from next week.

Besides, the mayor said they will start construction of the planned 10-storey hawkers’ market on Bangabandhu Avenue. “We will then shift them to the market.”