Mangaluru: MCC allotted separate zone for street vendors recently, although they invasion footpaths again. On Monday City Corporation officials undertook an eviction drive near State Bank circle and Rao and Rao circle .

The operation was conducted with the help of Mangaluru South Police personnel and seized the goods of those vendors who had put up shops at foot paths. Remarkably, many vendors, who usually set up their shops here, were found to be missing during the raids as though they had prior information of the same.

Later street vendors have often returned to occupy the roads as usual after the raids.