You can’t tell the hardship she faces from her cackle of a laugh. Her face is creased with tiny lines, there’s no hope in her eyes, no twinkle, no spark, certainly no fight. Triveni Devi is verily the face of urban poverty but she manages to laugh at her fate. A vegetable vendor, on a […]
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Dear street food lovers………. Welcome to the Street Food Festival 2012…..! Beyond the cultural flavors of the Culinary Art, Street Food Festival is wished-for for promotion of hygienic street food in the Indian cities. In the context of overrated and inflationary food prices, street food is more than just a Diet for a Diem
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The National Consultation on Protecting Human Rights of Street Vendors held on 7 June, 2012 at Deputy Chairman Hall, Constitution Club in New Delhi expresses its serious concern over the growing incidence of street vendors’ human rights violation and declares the Street Vendors Human Rights Charter. The consultation strongly believes that ensuring human rights of
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Convention vows to intensify agitation for effective and comprehensive central law and against FDI entry into retail Convention also calls upon vendors to vote for Pro-vendor and pro-labour candidates in upcoming state assembly elections City level street vendor federations would be formed Surat, 12 October: A large number of street vendors and their representatives
Gujarat level Street Vendors Convention ‘Lari Galla Jagriti Sabha’ concludes in Surat Read More »
New Delhi, 15 September: National Association of Street Vendors of India (NASVI) has called upon the Bihar government to mainstream thousands of street vendors with those urban development business plans which the government is envisioning to augment urban economies in the state. The Association said on Saturday that the government and municipal bodies in Bihar
Bihar government and its municipal bodies need to move beyond ‘Pilot mode Mentality’ Read More »
New Delhi, 19 September: Thousands of street vendors and small retailers across several cities on Wednesday responded to the ‘Anti- FDI Protest’ call given by the National Association of Street Vendors of India (NASVI) by coming on to the streets shouting slogans like ‘FDI is national disaster for working poor, Protest it tooth and nail’
Street vendors call FDI national disaster and protest across several cities Read More »
Annual meeting of Nidan run Sanchay Thrift and Credit Cooperative Society concludes in Delhi New Delhi, 1 October: As much trumpeted financial inclusion programs and schemes of the government and the formal banking institutions fail to reach to the informal workers, more than a thousand working poor of informal sector have embarked on a
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Street vendors ask government ‘cities grow and opportunities come up, but why do they remain vulnerable and marginalized?’ Chandigarh, 6 October: A large number of street vendors and their representatives from Chandigarh and other parts of Punjab on Saturday joined a state level convention asking government and municipal bodies ‘ cities and towns grow and
NASVI organized Punjab level ‘Street Vendors Convention’ concludes Read More »
After planning and preparations running for months, NASVI affiliates in Uttar Pradesh formed a state level street vendors’ body to spearhead the vendors’ livelihood movement in the state. The name of the body is Uttar Pradesh Patri Dukandaar Samanavay Samiti. The independent body was formed in a meeting held on 20 July, 2012 at Press
New Delhi, 4 August: National Association of Street Vendors of India (NASVI) which has long been struggling for a comprehensive central law in favour of street vendors on Saturday expressed anguish over the delay in clearing the much awaited Street Vendors (Protection of Livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending) Bill, 2012 and called upon the
