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Interface between Street Food Vendors and Authorities

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Delhi street food vendors get registration lessons to assure quality, safety The street food vendors registration advocacy campaign gained momentum on Wednesday with street food representatives, food, health and TVC members asserting at a consultation – Interface between Street Food Vendors and Authorities organized by the National Association of Street Vendors of India (NASVI) with […]

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Historic Street Vendors Law Comes into Force on MAY DAY

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NASVI Welcomes this ACT says has potential to change the face of Indian Cities NASVI welcomed the historic Street Vendors (Protection of Livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending) Act 2014 which came into force on May 1st. This is first of its kind in the world and in human history. A ground-breaking Street Vendors (Protection

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NASVI Launches Street Food Branding

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NASVI’s initiative in Development of Safe and Hygienic Food Zones in Delhi Sarojini Nagar Market –The first step of NASVI’s initiative in professionalizing Street Food Vendors of Delhi The National Association of Street Vendors of India (NASVI), which has been at the forefront of getting a Central Act enacted in 2014 despite the impasse in

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NASVI delegation meets Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi and Union Home Minister SK Shinde

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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

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National Coordinator of NASVI Arbind Singh receives warm ovation of street vendors at Patna airport

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A large number of street vendors and other informal workers on Wednesday morning thronged at Patna airport to receive and welcome a leading social activist Arbind singh reaching the city from Delhi. The jubilant informal workers gave a warm welcome to Mr. Singh for spearheading the national struggle of street vendors for comprehensive central legislation

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President of India Assents Street Vendors’ Livelihood Protection Bill

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Now Street Vendors’ Livelihood Protection Act Comes Into Existence Patna street vendors cheer across markets and felicitate NASVI leader Arbind Singh “Law will trigger organizing among street vendors and we’ll ensure that the law is implemented properly by municipal body. If properly implemented, the law has the potential to change the faces of cities like

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Street vendors congratulate Ms. Gandhi for pushing forward the legislation

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President of India is yet to ink street vendors’ livelihood protection legislation passed by parliament But, Police and Municipal agencies in Delhi have launched anti-street vendor backlash across several markets Brutal attack on street vendors in Okhla area in Delhi by police and MCD officials, seven street vendor leaders were sent to jail NASVI demands

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How We Fought, How We Won: Chronicle of Struggles for Central Law

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Wide ranging changes in political economy and policy environment in 1990s posed several challenges. One of such challenges was countering the growing marginalization of urban poor like street vendors and struggling as well as advocating with governance institutions demanding effective policy, legislations and rights based social protection programs for vulnerable urban groups. NASVI began its

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‘We Fought, We Won’, street vendors cheer passage of street vendors’ bill by Rajya Sabha across several cities

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NASVI cheers the struggle, thanks the government and the political parties, and calls upon street vendors to take out victory processions across cities Thousands of vendors reach Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi residence to thank him for pushing forward the legislation “ It is an empowering legislative development”, Rahul Gandhi says on the passage of

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More than 500 street vendors begin ‘indefinite hunger strike’ in Delhi demanding immediate passage of street vendors’ bill by Rajya Sabha

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“Stop humiliating tea vendors and other street vendors, demonstrate moral and political courage and support passage of street vendors’ bill in Rajya Sabha”, fasting street vendors ask main opposition party BJP “Come and clarify why do not you be condemned and protested for not passing street vendors bill in Rajya Sabha”, street vendor leaders tell

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