Appeal Dear Members The StreetNet has announced to celebrate International Street Vendors Day on 14 November every year to celebrate the contribution of street vendors to national economies as well as the society at large. This year it will coincide with the 10th Anniversary of StreetNet. The theme of this year celebration is Accelerate Organizing […]
It was 1990s… 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, legislation’s and rights based social protection programs for vulnerable urban groups.
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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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A street vendor is a person who offers goods or services for sale to the public without having a permanently built structure but with a temporary static structure or mobile stall (or head-load). Street vendors could be stationary and occupy space on the pavements or other public/private areas, or could be mobile, and move
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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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National Policy 1) THE STREET VENDORS (PROTECTION OF LIVELIHOOD AND REGULATION OF STREET VENDING) BILL, 2012 2) National Policy on Urban Street Vendors-2009 3) National Policy on Urban Street Vendors-2004 4) National Policy on Urban Street Vendors-2004 in Hindi Model Act/Bills 1) Model Street Vendors (Protection of Livelihood and regulation of street vending) Bill
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Contribution of Vendors in Selected Cities City Estimated Employment Generation Annual Turnover (in Rs crore) Ahmedabad 127,000 1,007 Patna 60,000 421 Delhi 200,000 1,590 Mumbai 200,000 1,590 Calcutta 191,000 1,518 Calculations based on: (a) Delhi Master Plan figure for 1981, extrapolated for 1991; (b) Study by Nidan in 1997; (c) T.S. Sanben and V.R. Rao,
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Street vendors have been in existence since ancient times. In all civilisations, ancient and medieval, one reads accounts of travelling merchants who not only sold their wares in the town by going from house to house but they also traded in neighbouring countries. Perhaps ancient and medieval civilisations were tolerant to these wandering traders and
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Urbanisation is the most significant all India phenomena of our times. The city has today become an engine of growth, the main job provider. Twenty nine per cent of the people of the country generate 60% of the GDP. However, our cities remain ill-prepared to address the problems of poverty. Planning and governance continues to
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