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 […]
Vendors’ markets wore festive look with banners reading catchy slogans Consultation and training of street food vendors on food safety and hygiene held in Delhi In October, thousands of street food vendors under the banner of National Association of Street Vendors of India (NASVI) celebrated the World Food Day, the foundation day of the Food
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More than 500 street food vendors on Monday joined the consultation and mass training program on food safety and hygiene and vowed to build their capacities towards ensuring sustainability of food security, health and nutrition. A large number of livelihood, health, nutrition and development experts including the representatives of World Health Organization, International Labour Organization,
Huge demonstration training of street food vendors in Delhi on 21 October New Delhi, 11 October: Promoting and professionalizing street foods in an era of growing costs of food and widespread debates over the issue of sustainability of formal food distribution system, the National Association of Street Vendors of India (NASVI) with support from the
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StreetNet International and South Korean delegations visit NASVI and vendor markets in Delhi In September, two international delegations, one from the StreetNet International comprising of StreetNet chief Pat Horn and StreetNet Europe and Asia organizer Oksana Abboud and another from South Korea comprising of 25 young professionals led by Young Davidly visited NASVI office and
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NASVI strongly protests the 11 September anti-vendor order given by the special secretary of the urban development department of Uttar Pradesh government and demands immediate withdrawal of the order. The order directs district magistrates to ensure eviction of street vendors. Describing the order as ‘contempt of the 9 September Supreme Court order which mandate no
Development politics aiming to empower working poor must take center stage in India Eminent jurists, administrators, labour experts and development activists on 30 September in Patna averred that the development politics aiming to empower the working poor needs to take center stage in India. They maintained that the success of any policy or law depend
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
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Appeal Send thousands of postcards to Congress president Sonia Gandhi for passage of Street Vendors Bill in monsoon session National Association of Street Vendors of India (NASVI) calls upon all its member organizations, friends, supporters and well wishers to send postcards to the Congress president Smt Sonia Gandhi for introduction and passage of the
Country needs to tap huge potentials of street food vending sector for employment generation, food and health security and growth of tourism, street food advocacy activists, food, health and nutrition experts and social entrepreneurs assert The street food advocacy campaign gained momentum on Thursday with street food representatives, food, health and nutrition experts and social
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