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Street Vendors Mandsaur on GWHOLSAT

Updated: Feb 5, 2021

Street Vendors Mandsaur on GWHOLSAT


A street vendor is a person who provide goods or services for sale to public without having a specific\particular structure but with a temporary static structure, head-load. The term street vendor includes stationary as well as mobile vendors and it incorporates all other local/region specific terms used to describe them.

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Street vendors are very important part of the informal sector in the country. It is estimated that around 80 percent of the population are engaged in street vending profession. Street vending is not only a source of self-employment to the poor in cities and towns but also a means to provide “affordable” as well as “convenient” services to a majority of the urban population which mainly attracts society towards them specially middle class people. 


Street vendors are necessary to make a whole urban economies around the world, offering easy availability to a wide range of goods and services in society to access the products at low prices such that poor can avail it. They sell everything from fresh vegetables to prepared foods, from building materials to garments and crafts, from consumer electronics to auto repairs to haircuts.


Street Vendors (Protection of Livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending) Act, 2014 is an Act of the Parliament of India enacted to regulate street vendors in public areas and protect their rights to promote Traditional craft and easy access to everyone.


The bill received the assent of the President of India on 4 March 2014. The Act came into force from 1 May 2014. It provide help to so many low level workers in unorganized sector.

Uncertainty and Insecurity: The basic problems of street vendors is insecurity of irregular income, earning and uncertainty as t