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more-inThe Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has started work on the ambitious Palike Bazaar in Vijayanagar, modelled on the lines of New Delhi’s Palika Bazaar, but street vendors in the neighbourhood are unhappy with what they call an ‘ill-conceived project’. Apart from the vendors who were evicted, the BBMP seems to have identified three or four autorickshaw drivers as street vendors. However, street vendors — mostly fruit and vegetable sellers — are unhappy. Pointing out that Delhi’s Palika Bazaar only housed shops selling electronics and hosiery items, he said, “We are against this ill-conceived project. “The money that is being spent on the project could have been instead used to establish vending zones and on the welfare of street vendors..