Heba Press_Settat
Has the experiment of the model market of hosting street vendors in the city of Settat failed or failed? A question that concerns those who follow local affairs here in the capital of Chaouia, especially after the “vagrancy” of street vendors with their carts and animals who impose their own law in most streets, alleys and public squares. transforming them into spaces filled with waste..
After the experiment launched in recent years, as part of the national strategy for the legalization, reintegration and organization of street vendors throughout the Kingdom, 3 model spaces for bag trade were opened in the city of Settat in the As-Samala district and in Sidi Abdel Karim district… These are ambitious projects that aim to combat fragility and organize street vendors in popular neighborhoods. It was carried out on the main streets of the city as part of the National Initiative for Human Development. The experiment, in the opinion of many, was not successful and did not achieve the objectives for which it was designed. However, it required huge sums of money to create it, without achieving its objectives, so that it remains the street, public squares, and near mosques serve as random markets sufficient for this purpose.
Our sources added that residents of the areas affected by the repercussions of the phenomenon have repeatedly alerted those who touch the environmental field of their misconduct, but they have gone too far, calling on the authorities and some zealous associative activities to intervene to stop this alteration, which has negatively affected the aesthetics of the city and even threatened the safety of the city and the health of citizens, especially young children, questioned the feasibility of establishing model markets in the city and their role in reducing the phenomenon of vegetables. carts have spread to various alleys and neighborhoods, demanding that they be started so that they fulfill the purpose for which they were established..
It is noteworthy that most of the main streets and public squares have been transformed into what look like random weekly markets, in which different types of products and vegetables are exhibited, in flagrant violation of the occupation of the public domain and the aesthetics of the city, whose heroes are street vendors with their cars, trucks, carts and animals, which urges the authorities responsible for the sector to work to find effective solutions that will restore the aesthetics of the city and the dignity of its inhabitants and the right to breathe clean air and without odors. odors.
