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Loss of Income, Debts, Police Harassment: A Street Vendor’s Suffering In The Pandemic

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Anu, Archu and Kavita at work. Credits: Priyanka Gulati Anu, Archu, and Kavita are three sandwich sellers who set up a small stall together outside a corporate office. They have been cooking and selling sandwiches there for 7 years! Until the pandemic swooped in, and their business came to a standstill for almost 7 months. […]

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Food to go? Covid threatens Hyderabad’s famous street food carts

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Food stalls provide a livelihood for millions of people in India, but have been badly hit by the pandemic. Photograph: BMD Images/Alamy On a normal working day, Venkateshwara Rao would be ready by 4pm, stationed on the pavement waiting for office workers to emerge and order their favourite varieties of idli and dosa from his bandi,

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Hope for simplified tax structures, govt support

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Identifying an opportunity to encash the city’s love for authentic coffee, two friends, Prasanna Venkatesh and M Kumaaravelan, set up an enterprise called Madras Coffee House in 2010.By Divya Chandrababu Chennai may be synonymous with filter coffee but the streets of the coastal city are dotted with tea stalls. The steel glass-and-tumbler drink is found

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Street food is an integral part of India’s culture and urban identity

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The COVID-19 rupture offers a unique opportunity to both the Indian government and street food entrepreneurs to reorganise while keeping the romance of street food alive. Singapore should serve as an inspiration India’s street food vendors are among the communities and economic units worst hit by COVID-19 and the subsequent lockdowns. Overnight their businesses came

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Webinar on Six Months of PM-SVANidhi Yojna

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Date: Webinar is on 2nd January 2021 at 12: 00 noon to 02: 00 PM Please click the link to join the Webinar: https://zoom.us/j/98159813099?pwd=WFA3a05wVXI4L04ySWtsOUxZTGRFQT09Passcode: 1234Click to Join on Facebook Live: https://www.facebook.com/Nasviindia National Association of Street vendors of India (NASVI) works with street vendors across the country. NASVI builds local community based organizations of street vendors

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Impact of Lockdown Relief Measures on Informal Enterprises and Workers

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Much has been said and written about the impact of the COVID-19 lockdown on the Indian economy, the stimulus packages announced by the Government of India and the sad plight of the migrant workers. This article brings into focus segments of the economy that constitute the bottom of the labour hierarchy, namely microenterprises, construction workers,

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Serving now: Foodies dig in as khau gallis make spicy, sanitised return

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MUMBAI: The golgappas were a bit soggy but not enough to turn Kalyan-based “Golgappa girl” Pooja Bathija away from ‘pizza shots’–one of the many hidden curiosities of Ghatkopar’s khau galli. The Rs 140-worth dish refers to the result of a fire gun singeing a layer of cheese onto six pani puris stuffed with capsicum, onion

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