Street vendors with loud speakers create nuisance

Hyderabad: Mobile street vendors who use loud speakers in localities to attract attention of the people have now become a nuisance with the resident living in areas like Shastripuram, near Rajendranagar.

Ranging from vegetable sellers to cloth merchants, scrap collectors to pickle vendors, all have started using this common technique to lure the masses through a public address system announcing variety of commodities they are selling, its quality and related rates.

With the usage of loud speakers for business purpose by the mobile vendors has added to the increased noise pollution in the residential areas known for its tranquility.
Infuriated over the kind of business activity near their houses, locals have now started to complain with the authorities.

“What could be more annoying than the quaking voice of public address system nowadays used by mobile vendors to lure people of residential colonies? They are using loud speakers flouting all the norms of residential areas to sell their goods while residents suffer quietly taking refuge in their homes during scorching heat of summer season,” said Musa bin Abdul Rahman, one of the residents of the locality.

In few cases the vendors use transport vehicles like Piaggio and Apache autos that produce significant engine noise and while moving they honk unwarrantedly worsening the situation further. When these autos get into streets the peaceful ambience is overpowered by their high decibel noise and its high pitch vibrations of autos are a cause of irritating to people.

“As there are existing provisions from municipalities for such vendors to sell their goods once in a week in a select colony through makeshift arrangement for the ease of residents then what is the further need for these vendors to oversell at the cost of public peace,” says another resident, Md Asifuddin.

Some of the residents have already represented the matter to the Civic authorities and nearby police stations, but of no avail.

By Md Nizamuddin