National Association of Street Vendors of India – NASVI

The Delhi government wanted to constitute 27 town vending committees (TVCs). We asked them to constitute four TVCs because we don’t have so many leaders at the street vendors level. We want good leaders to emerge gradually, people who can influence the decision-making of municipal corporation. Despite our protest, they went ahead with 27 committees […]

NASVI, in the month of June, 2014, carried out Rath campaign in the state of Maharashtra. The purpose of the Rath campaign is to generate awareness among masses about the Central law for street vendors. The Rath campaign started on 16th June, 2014 from Pune, Maharashtra with a meeting in Pune. The Rath travelled across […]

Dear All NASVI Members and Affiliates,   NASVI Annual General Meeting will take place on Tuesday, August 26, 2014, at Shri Ram Centre in New Delhi. Documents are made available at the time of registration.  All affiliates will receive an e-mail notification to inform them of the AGM and rules to attend. The email is […]

On the basis of the new act the Street  Vendors (Protection and Regulations of Street Vending) Act, 2014, National Association of Street Vendors of India (NASVI) is very proud to share that the problems of street vendors has begun to be sorted out. There are incidences from various parts of the country where the problems of street vendors cropped up. However, with the new act […]

Post- Enactment of Street Vendors’ Livelihood Protection Act NASVI raises the issues of street vendors’ rights abuse with Ministry of Home Affairs NASVI delegation meets Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi and Union Home Minister SK Shinde Ministry of Home Affairs convenes meeting of NASVI representatives, key police officials and municipal bodies executives on 19 March […]

Arvind Kejriwal comes out in full support of street vendors’ rights movement No street vendor would be evicted in Delhi and extortionist police and municipal officials would be put in jail, Delhi CM announces “I would write to the Police Commissioner and Commissioners and Mayors of Municipal Bodies to ensure compliance of Supreme Court order […]

CULINARY ENTREPRENUERS ON STREETS IN INDIA The Street Food Festival of 2013 is the third edition of Street Food Festival organized by the National Association of Street Vendors of India(NASVI).What began as an internal event of NASVI where street food vendors served different recipes to delegates in the Annual General Meetings has metamorphosed into a […]

Lucknow street vendors put stiff resistance to eviction drive Perturbed over the continuous eviction carried out by the municipal corporation and the police, more than one thousand street vendors of GP Road, Mandir Road and Aminabad Park road of Aminabad ward of Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh put up a brave resistance to the municipal authorities […]

Annual turnover reaches to 1.5 crore, target set to cross 5 crore in coming three years As much trumpeted financial inclusion programs and schemes of the government and the formal banking institutions fail to reach to the informal workers, thousands of working poor of informal sector have embarked on a collective journey for betterment of […]

Supreme Court directs all state governments and UT administrators to ensure formation of Town Vending Committee within two months and registration of all street vendors within four months  NASVI demands of state governments and UT administrators to start working on Supreme Court’s directions  The recent legislative development in the Lok Sabha which passed the Street […]