Over 20 lakh street vendors have applied for interest-free loans of Rs 10,000 each as working capital under the Prime Minister Street Vendor’s Atmanirbhar Nidhi (PM SVANidhi). THEY WERE among the hardest hit by the Covid lockdown. And now, many of them are hoping that a special loan scheme rolled out by the government will […]
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Street vendors in the national capital have demanded that all weekly markets be allowed to open as usual as all other commercial activities have now been permitted by the Delhi Disaster Management Authority(DDMA). This comes a day after the DDMA allowed only two weekly markets to function in each municipal zone under the guidelines of
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Mohan Singh Varma is 42 years old. He sells biryani by day and momos by night near Delhi’s Preet Vihar Metro Station, but he now hands out his plates through partitions in the plastic sheets that ensconce his cart. He has also kept a separate table nearby, from where customers can collect food, to ensure
PRESS RELEASE Campaign “Bring Them Back” to bring thousands of street food vendors back to their livelihood Training given to street vendors to make them aware and ready with COVID-19 safety gears 29/09/2020 – National Association of Street Vendors of India (NASVI) under the campaign “Bring Them Back” will train and provide access to COVID
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The PM Street Vendor’s AtmaNirbhar Nidhi (PM SVANidhi) was launched by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs…
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Dettol BSI, the flagship program by RB, global consumer healthcare company, announced partnership with National Association of Street Vendors of India (NASVI) for a program to support street vendors in India and create a healthy and hygienic environment for them. The nationwide partnership aims to provide training and access to hygiene products like Dettol Soaps
New Delhi, Sep 7 (KNN) The government is supporting the street vendors by providing loans to them under PM SVANidhi Yojna and by implementing street vending Act – 2014. Sanjay Kumar, IAS Joint Secretary (NULM), Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs said this during a webinar on Saturday organised by National Association of Street Vendors
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The celebrity chef is using his recent 1 million-follower milestone on Instagram for a food causeHitting the one million mark on social media is an occasion for euphoria and declarations of thanksgiving often rival red carpet acceptance speeches. But chef Ranveer Brar is making this million count by giving back to the community. He has
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NEW DELHI, Sept 21 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A stack of unsold shawls is an unsettling sight for street vendor K. Kunjalata Devi, reminding her of the daily struggle to feed her family as COVID-19 threatens the livelihoods of millions of informal traders across India. India – one of the countries worst-hit by the coronavirus
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Training Seminar “Analysing Trade Union Transformation and changing Industrial Relations through the Power Resources Approach” was organised by Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES) at Hotel Jaypee Vasant Continental, Vasant Vihar, Basant Lok, New Delhi on 4th October, 2017. Patrick Ruether, Head of FES India Office welcomed all guests. Mirko Herberg, Head of FES Global TU Programme,
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