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PANCHKULA: The Panchkula municipal corporation will soon have its first street vendor market at Sector 19 . Around 2,700 street vendors will be rehabilitated by the civic body in Panchkula under this project.Accoridng to officials, the street vendor survey was conducted by a mobile-based application using GIS mapping with digital photograph of vendors under the Street Vendors (Protection of Livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending) Act, 2014. The Parliament had passed the said Act that guarantees them the right to work as street vendors. The civic body will soon release budget of around Rs 1 crore for the construction of the vending market. Similar projects to allocate site to the street vendors are in the pipeline in Chandigarh and Mohali as well.Municipal commissioner Rajesh Jogpal said, "Work allocation of the street vending zone has been finalised and soon the construction work will start..