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The move will provide street vendors with business security and also help decongest roads to a large extent.”Municipal commissioner of Agra Arun Prakash, who is also the CEO of special purpose vehicle (SPV) for Agra smart city private limited, said, “Agra smart city will have smart vendors. Agra: Under the smart city project, street vendors will be trained professionally in 10 cities of Uttar Pradesh, including Agra, Lucknow, Varanasi, Allahabad, Aligarh, Bareilly, Moradabad, Saharanpur, Jhansi and Kanpur. Under the plan, street vendors will be specified space to operate. Three streets of Tajganj locality, which sees movement of tourists on a daily basis, were selected for development of special vending zones. Besides, they will be updated about the Protection of Livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending Act, 2014 and government schemes.”The proposed vending zones will have drinking water facilities, proper street lights, concrete pavements, parking space, dustbins and seating arrangements for customers or visitors..