Like every year, hawkers and street vendors at popular markets such as Lajpat Nagar, Janpath and Sarojini Nagar, were asked to remove their stalls one week prior to Independence Day. Keeping security measures in mind, hawkers at all three markets had to remove their stalls. While hawkers at Sarojini Nagar and Janpath have already come back to their spots, the situation looks bleak for the more than 500 hawkers at Lajpat Nagar. On August 8, when the police asked hawkers and vendors to remove their stalls, they agreed, but when they came back on August 16, they were told that they can no longer put up their stalls at Lajpat's Central Market. Shopkeepers say that the entire area of Lajpat...
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