2019 -

2020

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STREET VENDORS

OF INDIA (NASVI)

Annual Report
2019 – 2020
 Obituary
Denkanal, Odisha: Four Street Vendors passed away in an accident. We were very
saddened by the incident and we pray for peace of their souls

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 Annual Report 2019-2020
National Association for Street Vendors of India, an organization working for the
protection of the livelihood rights of thousands of street vendors across the country.
Beginning as a Network in 1998, NASVI was registered in 2003 under the Societies
Registration Act of 1860.

The main objective behind establishing NASVI is to bring together the street vendor
organizations in India so as to collectively struggle for macro-level changes which had
become imminent to support the livelihood of around 10 million vendors which stand
severely threatened due to outdated laws and changing policies, practices and attitudes of
the powers that be.

NASVI is a national federation of street vendor organizations. It is a coalition of Trade

Unions, Community Based Organizations (CBOs), Non-Government Organizations
(NGOs) and professionals.

The Street Vendors Act 2014

With its extensive efforts NASVI has been able to get a National Policy for Urban street
Vendors in 2004 that was revised in the year 2009, NASVI began focusing on the needs to
enact the law for street vendors. The Parliament enacted the Street Vendors (Protection of
Livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending) Act, 2014. The main aim of the Act is:

 Town Vending Committee (TVC) compromising 40% street vendors in every city.
 Local Authority to act only on the recommendations of the TVC.
 Survey at least once in very five years of all the existing vendors.
 Surveyed vendors to be issued a certificate of vending and will pay fee.
 Police or any other law cannot prevent any certified vendors from exercising such
rights.
 Relocation and goods seizure rules framed.
 Judicial Committee form Grievance redressal.

As the State Governments and Municipal bodies prepared rules and schemes (mandatory
under the law) for implementation, NASVI played a key role of looking over to ensure that
the gains in the law are not diluted. NASVI has made several efforts in getting the law
implemented. For instance, organising campaigs for early implementation through people’s

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voice and media advocacy, raising the issues of non-implementation through various forms,
pushing the implementation through courts, capacity building of Street Vendor leaders and
their organisations, creating awareness among the street vendors, and assisting the State
Governments and Municipal bodies in implementing the law.

National Conference and Annual General Meeting

NASVI conducts a National Convention and Annual General meeting every year with
vendor leaders from across the country. Also an Executive Meeting is conducted twice a
year in order to review and plan the strategy for the future reference along with the Elected
State Member Representatives.

National Convention and Annual General Meeting was on “Street Vending in India after
SV Act 2014: Possibilities and Challenges” at Sir Puttanna Shetty Town Hall, Bengalure
on 6th -7th September, 2019.

The convention was attended by 700 representatives of street vendors from 400 cities and
this was inaugurated by Smt Gangambike Mallikarjun Worshipful Mayor, BBMP,
Karnataka including Shri Rajesh Verma Dy. Mayor Bhgalpur, Bihar, Sri Shantha Kumar,
National Secretary, INTUC under the chairmanship of NASVI president Sri Chandra
Prakash Singh. The Convention and AGM was supported by Friedrich Ebert Stiftung
(FES), Adithi, Nidan, Self worker Global, Karnataka Street Vendor federation and
Karnataka Pradesh Labour Coordination Committee.

Inauguration of the Convention by Dignitaries

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Mayor BBMP, Smt Gangambike Mallikarjun Sri HT Sangliana (IPS), Ex DG and IG & MP-
told that Vendors would be given a separate Street vendors need to be provided insurance,
Space to vend, In the 8 areas of the Bangeluru housing facilities, health plans and other
Metropolitan City, street vendors will be settled facilities. Many times street vendors are
on footpaths, although it will also be taken care harassed by the staff of the municipality and
that pedestrians should not face any problem, the police department. A letter should be
we are working on this scheme. There are 80000 written to the Commissioner of Police to take
street vendors in Bangalore, of which 24000 action against the policemen who misbehaved
have been given identity cards. In case of not with these vendors. We see that in every city,
getting proper employment, doing business on the retail vendors are getting worried. NASVI
footpath is not a crime from anywhere. should develop organization everywhere.

Former Home Minister, Government of Ms. Sumathi (KMAS) Project Officer DAY-
Karnataka, Sri Ramalinga Reddy said that it NULM, Karnataka told the conference that
needs to be discussed to solve the problem of State Government committed to reach the
pavement traders. A federation delegation will Street vendors. Rules has been notified and
have to meet the Chief Minister. If a very soon Schemes would be notified by the
businessman is harassed by a municipal or state. We are focusing in formation of Town
policeman, complain to the Deputy Vending Committee in each and every Urban
Commissioner of Police of the area concerned. local Body. We are also connecting street
All pavement shopkeepers must unite to achieve vendors with skill development training on
social justice. Health and Hygiene issue.

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Shri Muthumaran – Regional Director, FSSAI, Ms. Somya Reddy, MLA, Jayanagar, shared
Govt of India addressed under the session “New her experience as police don’t take action on
Frontiers in Street Vending”. He spoke about the complaints of vendors and the
the FSSAI training process and need of the governments have failed to solve the problems
training. of street vendors.

Ms. Damyanti Sridharan, Senior Advisor, Shri Rajesh Verma, Dy. Mayor, Bhagalpur,
Fredrich Ebert Stiftung (FES) addressing the shared his experience on regulation of vending
convention and focusing for the Empowerment in Bhagalpur as BMC made 57 Vending zones
of Women street vendors. along the road side.

Shri Chandra Prakash Singh, President,

Sri Shantha Kumar, National Secretary, INTUC NASVI highlighted Tripple E – Economy
,Employment and Entrepreneurship

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Sri Shwetank Mishra, Paul Hamlyn Foundation Ms. Asita Maldhiyar, Executive Secretary,
speaking under the session Capacity building Adithi, shared her experience on leadership
and Leadership Promotion among Street promotion among the community
vendors.

Sri Ved Prakash Dayal, National Urban

Shri Arbind Singh , Coordinator, NASVI setting
Livelihood Mission, Bihar under a session
the agenda of the convention.
Promoting Social Economy

Executive Committee Meeting

EC Meeting was held on 24-06-2019 in Rajiv Nagar Patna, Bihar. The meeting of the
Executive Committee of NASVI was held under the chairmanship of Mr. Chandra Prakash
Singh. Action plan in the meeting was -

• Focus on State level Committee.

• NASVI members will be trained for Twitter account handling.
• TVC members need to undergo regular training.
• Members will be required to share information of the TVC meeting.
• Short videos will be made on various issues related to Vending.
• Phone based training program will be considered for leadership development.
• Emphasis on the need to increase and form co-operative committee to provide
financial assistance to the members
• Work will be done in collaboration with the State Urban Livelihood Mission and
the Smart City Agency and Proper utilization of their funds will be ensured.
• There should be a strategy to focus in Mumbai and problems there.

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 • NASVI will make a letter on how the vending zone should be created.
• Strict attention will be given to NASVI's e-News letter.
• 20th January will be celebrated as Vendors’ Day.

Ranking of the States

Centre of Civil Society (CCS) did a ranking of states based on indicators like notification of
rules and schemes, survey of street vendors, constitution of TVCs, issue of identity cards,
preparation of city vending plan, constitution of TVC, creation of vending zones etc.
Unfortunately, the realities of the ground are not taken care and NASVI rejected the study
in the February 8 meeting where it was released even though for strong reasons it is put
on the website of the Ministry.

S.No State Name Rank

1 Kerala 1
2 Andhra Pradesh 2
3 Gujarat 3
4 Chhattisgarh 4
5 Mizoram 5
6 Rajasthan 6
7 Madhya Pradesh 7
8 Arunachal Pradesh 8
9 Punjab 9
10 Himachal Pradesh 10
11 Jharkhand 11
12 Telangana 12
13 Maharashtra 13
14 Tripura 14
15 Chandigarh 15
16 Goa 15
17 Odisha 16
18 Tamil Nadu 17
19 Uttar Pradesh 18
20 Haryana 19
21 Bihar 20
22 Andaman & Nicobar Islands 21
23 Nagaland 21
24 Assam 22
25 West Bengal 23
26 Puducherry 24
27 Uttarakhand 25
28 Manipur 26
29 NCT of Delhi 26
30 Sikkim 26
31 Meghalaya 27

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32 J& K 28
33 Karnataka 29

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States Progress:
Delhi - After lot of efforts and persuasion, the Delhi Govt adopted the scheme on 15th
April .Last year elections to 27 TVCs were held. However 147 vacancies were still to be
filled for which notification has been issued to hold elections on the 30th June. Last year
the elected TVC were given zone wise training. We also thwarted effort to evict some
markets by the Police and the Municipal Corporation. These are Laxmi Nagar, Mndawali
Pulia Sabzi Mandi, Shastri Park, Zama Masjid, Badarpur Sabzi Mandi, Karol Bagh Market,
Janata Colony, New Usmanpur ghora weekly market, Bhikhaji Cama place.
NASVI also wrote letters to LG, Police Commissioner, Municipal Corporation
Commissioner and also took delegation to the 12 Deputy Commissioners who head the
TVCs TVC members training cum strategic planning meeting: WEIGO supported NASVI to
organize training of TVC. The last training was converted into a strategic planning
meeting. A major decision was to build pressure on the Deputy Commissioners who now
head the TVCs.
The decisions were as follows
a) All Political parties and their leaders to be informed that if they do not give
importance to the street vendors, they shall be boycotted.
b) Deputy Commissioners to be pressurized to convene meetings of TVCs
c) Get vendors issue in the manifesto of Political Parties
d) Create pressure on Delhi Govt to constitute Grievance Redressal Committee
e) Write letter to Delhi Govt to adopt the scheme
f) Write letter to Police Commissioner asking to give receipts in case of confiscation
g) Vendors write to DCs for regulation.

Uttar Pradesh: The Allahabad High Court ordered for implementation of the rules and
schemes. The Principle Secretary on 15/6/2017 wrote letters to Municipal Bodies for
implementation. 4171 certificates have been issued by 17 Municipal Corporation.

There are serious issues in Hapur and the vendors had to go to court. In Agra 4000
vendors applied for ID cards of which on 400 vendors got id card on 3-04-2019. In

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Lucknow the High Court intervened and all vendors were asked to apply by 10 June. The
Municipal Corporation distributed 15122 forms of which only 12311 persons applied .Now
these will be verified. Many non vendors have filled the forms. Shri Gokul Prasad
registered protest against this The Lucknow Municipal Corporation has identified 200
Vending Zones of which the traffic police has objections over 20 of them .The Smart City
Agency has identified 168 vending zones.

Ghaziabad Municipal Corporation issued Vending Certificate to identified street vendors

NASVI is running a project in Varanasi with support from Adithi, an NGO

 Market Committee constituted in

24 markets
 180 Vendors lined with
Ayushman Bharat Yojna
 City level federation constituted
 Registration process on for city
level co-operative
 Vendors Day Celebrated
 Data Base of Street Vendors is
being created
 Dustbins distributed at many
places

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 Vending Zone being constructed in 3 places
 The Local MLA was involved to get the Act implemented
 250 vendors from 5 zones were given vending certificates on 17 th June by the Hon’ble
Urban Development Minister, Shri Suresh Khanna.
 Leadership Training organized
 State Rules simplified and vendors made aware
 800 vendors signed petition for the social security rights
 A list of possible vending zones submitted to Municipal Corporations.

14 cities including Lucknow, Meerut, Ghaziabad, Varanashi, Agra, Allahabad, Moradabad,

Gorakhpur, Aligarh, and Muzaffarnagar have identified 1.96 vendors for issue of identity
card. NASVI had also applied in tender advertised by SUDA but we got rejected due to
technical reasons.

Madhya Pradesh - Madhya Pradesh has framed rules and scheme. TVCs have been
constituted. 12000 vendors have been surveyed in Gwalior but identity cards have not
ben issued. 7 Vending zones have been created .Some vendors have occupied space in 5
vending zones but 2 vending zones are empty. Pintu Park has 450 vendors, Chowpatti has
36 vendors, Phulbagh has 34, Birla Nagar has 150, Kampu has 18 and another 244 .There
is also a Women Vending Zone near Hanuman Talkies but nobody is there.

Bhopal: TVC has been constituted on the basis of nomination but there will be election to
the TVC after General Election. There are fifty two districts in the state and around 7-8
Divisions. Each Division has five districts. Grievance Redressal Committee has been
constituted of which Shri Gopal Singh Lodhi and Ratnesh Upadhyay has been made
members. There are rules and schemes in which merging 5 towns it has been divided in
small parts. In one part Bhopal Municipal Corporation, Shihor Municipal Corporation,

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Vidisha Municipal Corporation. Grievance Redressal Committee for the vendors was
formed in Raigarh whose members are Gopal Singh Lodhi and Ratnish Upadhaya.

Jabalpur - In Jabalpur part Bhilwada, Jabalpur, Mandla, Bigbori, Sehdol, Balaghat, Shivani,
Narsinghpur Street Vendors’ Grievance redressal committee was formed. In total 52
districts in which 7-8 such committees will be formed.

Jharkhand - The State Govt framed rules in 2015 but some street vendor organisations
demanded amendment and the State Govt adopted the amended Rules in Septemebr
2016. Scheme was passed after a year in 2017.Three agencies were selected for
facilitation of the implementation – Saman Foundation, NF Infratech Pvt Ltd and Haryana
Nav Yuvak Kala Sangam were selected in Jharkhand.

TVCs were constituted in all the 44 important ULBs in proper way though meetings were
not conducted in proper manner. Survey has been completed in all these places through
an APP based mapping. 17,000 vendors out of the 37,701 vendors surveyed have been
given identity cards. NULM officials say that they will be covered in the second phase.
Vending Zones have also been identified.

A Vending Zone has been created in Ranchi in which 427 vendors have been allotted
space. In rest of the cities, land has been identified for vending zones. In Madhupur and
Deoghar, meeting with Municipal Bodies have been held and street vendor organizations
are being identified in these two places. NASVI has also intervened in Dhanbad and in
Jamshedpur – a project is being implemented with support from Adithi

 11 market committees have been consitituted

 678 identity cards have been distributed
 Application from new vendors submitted for identity cards
 Application for unorganized labour cards submitted
 Applications submitted under Man- Dhan Yojna

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  Registration for District Level Co-operative
 Vendors Day celebrated and vendors were made aware
 Data base of vendors is being prepared
 Appealed to the CM, Hon’ble Raghubar Das for implementation of the Street
Vendors Act and list of Vending Zone submitted to the Municipal Body
 Loan distributed in loan mela

57 Vendors were provided training in leadership by Market Committee was constitued in Baradwari market
Rakesh Tripathi on 15-05-2019. 167 Vendors were present. Election
were held to elect the office bearers.

Vending zone is ready in TIN PLATE Vendors will be Map is being prepared for vending zone in Jubli Park
shifted to this zone. 92 shops have been made and 50
more will be added.

Vending Identity Card have been distributed in Telco

Market and necessary documents collected from
A Meeting was held with CMMU in JNAC. The issue vendors.
of 50 vendors who were not given place in TIN
PLATE was taken up. City Mission Manager took the
application and promised to do the needful.

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Bihar - he State Govt notified rules and scheme is February 2017. Bihar has 142 ULBs and
Town Vending Comittees (TVC) have been constituted in all the town survey has been
conducted in 53 towns. 59501 Vendors have been identified 12870 IDS have been
distributed. 346 vending zones have been declared. NASVI prepared city vending plan for
Bhagalpur Municipal Corporation. As a result the Department of urban Development
asked all ULBs to prepare vending plans. Municipal Bodies have submitted plan for 27
Veding zones. 15 Vending zones have been declared by the urban Department reactioning
a total amount of Rs 6,16,51,600. 3 Vending zones are being created in Patna.

Strengthening the State Level Co-Operative :- The Bihar state Footpath Dukandar Co-
Operative Society has been registered
under the 1996 Act. The Board meets
regularly and adopts many resolutions.
The Board has decided to open 7
beanches in – Patna, Bhagalpur,
Begusarai, Chapra, Motihari, Madhepura
and Seikhpura. We have begun from
Patna and Bhagalpur. A bank account
has been opend in Patna which is
operated by the President and CEO of
the Co-Operative.

Modern Pushcart :- NASVI has collaborated with a company ‘Swastik Art and Creation’.
We are getting the company to manufacture need based push cart for vegetables, fruits
and food vendors. After many rounds of interaction with the vendors, the company has
come out with different models. Two designs have been approved by the vendors and the
company is manufacturing them.

Leadership Development Training: On 22-01-2016 a

training was organized in Bhagalpur 150 street
vendors participated. Qualities of a good leader and
various aspects of law was taght to them. The
Municipal Commissioner, Shyam Bihari Meena
inaugurated the training.

Distribution of ID cards in Rajgir: After 8 years of

struggle in the international tourism city of Rajgir,
350 vendors were distributed identity cards.

Business Development, Cleanliness training in retail:

with support from FSSAI training program was
organized in Patna and Bhagalpur. 5 training in
Patna and 6 training in Bhagalpur were organized.

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28 Street Food Vendors were provided with FSSAI registration.

Many Municipal Bodies have TVC meetings though most TVCs meetings are not regular.
The State Level Fedration is creating pressure on a regular basis and a State Level
workshop is planned on 25th June for this.

Telangana - State Government

on 15th January, 2016 has asked
to notify the plans and design a
layout of the rules but higher
officials have not paid a heed to
it so it will be notified
again.There are 30 districts in
Telangana but only few districts
like Hyderabad ,kutubullahpur
,Sikandrabad and Shadnagar
has TVC. In the month of
February,2019 last meeting was conducted.The survey of the street vendors has been
done in 22 cities and in total 72400 vendors have been surveyed and I cards distribution
has been initiated .Rest of the cities have also started the survey, all the. All the 30 cities
vending zones have been identified, but the work has not been started. Cooperative
Monthly meetings with street vendors have been organized.

Tamil Nadu - Because of Smart City Plan eviction problems have been arising and vendors
have been facing problems. Majorly Sevapalli in Trichy to Thuvkudi, through the
contractor for making the service lane street vendors were evicted on 19/4/19. In this
regard DC has been intimated and in Auriyallur and Ariyangmanglam witnessed
demonstrations. 2 TVC meetings have already been held in Chennai Corporation. There
was talk of conducting the next meeting after the election. It was decided to evict the
Chennai T. Nagar Osman Road Market. It is one of the big and famous markets of Chennai
city. Affected street vendors can expect a big movement.

Karnataka - The Karnataka State

Government has notified the rules
on May 13, 2016 and made a
plan, but no implementation has
been done. The survey process
started on 17th September, 2017.
TVC has been formed in some
cities, but they are only active in
Mysore and Mangalore. Until
now, no single vending zone has
been identified. Demonstrations

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were also held in front of the Town Hall in Mysore. In Bangalore, no TVC was formed till
now and surveyed 25,000 vendors. In January 2018-2019, 15,000 ID cards and vending
certificates were made till now. No wading zones were identified. Plan for distribution of
ID card from next month.

Andhra Pradesh - The State government

has notified the rules and plans on March
31, 2017 and June 15, 2016 respectively.
TVC is set up in three cities of Andhra
Pradesh which are Guntur, Srikulam and
Visakhapatnam and the last TVC’s meeting
in February 2019 will be organized. Survey
has been completed in all the cities of
Andhra Pradesh and the number of total vendors is 66361 out of which 50606 vendors
have already been issued ID cards and are now closed due to elections and from next
month in Vijayawada, Srikakulam will start again, Visakhapatnam, Godavari East and
West, Guntur, Nulor, Chittur, Kadapa, Prakram and Krishna. Identity cards have been
distributed to the TVC members. Until now, no single vending zones have been identified.

Kerala - State Government has made the rules and the plans .In total out of 93 only in 76
ULBs TVC has been formed .Survey has been done for 93 ULB and 19751 vendors have
been included in the survey in which among 5 ULB 1357 vendors in Mallapuram
,Shonoor,Chalkudi ,Trishoor and Chaavkakkad IDs were distributed. Not a single vending
zone has been identified.

Kerala Government in March, 2018 at Panchayat level street vendor survey has been
announced and till date it has not started.

In Kannur district, National Footpath Underwandi

Petikara Thojilali Union State working committee
organised a meeting in Kerala. In this meeting
vendors took a decision against Kerala
Government for taking negative behaviour
against the street vendors and they decided to
protest for the same. Survey has not been
completed and the identity card also not
distributed. We have decided to conduct a
general Council meeting within three months in
Kannur

Rajasthan - Rules of Rajasthan, Schemes and TVC are maintained but there is on regular
meeting of TVC anywhere. In Kota survey of 5443 people had done but no one had
identity card.

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More than 200 people have been surveyed in Mount Abu the work of beautification is
being done by the municipality and Brahma Kumari Sansthan of Mount Abu such as Light,
Toilets have been constructed.

In Jodhpur - Food vendors in Shastri Nagar circle

has witnessed that street vendors are being
tortured by the Municipal Corporation and
police administration even after the Act 2014, so
the street vendors will submit petition to
Jodhpur High Court against municipal and police
administration.

Training of Members of the Town Vending Committee: One day training was organized on
12th October 2018 in Town in Jaipur by members of Town Vending Committee.
Approximately 30 members of 7-8 municipalities participated in the training. During the
training, the members told that the Town Vending Committee is not heard in Jaipur. Due
to the municipal dogma, the vendors are enabling to put-up their issues.

Punjab - Rules and schemes are in place in Punjab

and TVC has been formed. A total of 21622 people
have been surveyed, in which the certificate of 900
vendors is ready but has not been given to anyone
yet. The process of creating vending zones is also
going on in various cities of Punjab and all
preparations have been made for giving vending
cards but due to slow progress of the work, a lot is
yet to be done.

In the recently held TVC meeting in Ludhiana, it was

agreed to create a vending zone in zone C in zone 9 and proposals have been sent to the
government. Earlier, there was a church on creating a vending zone in about 40 areas. A
memorandum was made to the Urban Development Minister Navjot Singh Sidhu,
demanding the implementation of the law.

West Bengal - After many jihdah jahan, West Vanding Rules 2018 has been formed in
West Bengal. But there is still no information about implementation. Nasavi's member
organization has made the government aware about the situation. It is tragic and
thoughtful that even such organizations do not receive the information.

Uttrakhand - Schemes and TVC has been formed .In total 2547 vendors survey has been done
Rs.150 has been taken per person for the Identity Cards. Municipal Corporation takes Rs. 20 per
vendors and Rs. 200 from outside vendors and Rs. 5000 per month. Although TVC is there in
Dehradun but no proper meetings are held. In total 2000 people have been surveyed and 200

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vendors are given ID Cards for Vending Zone Ghanta Ghar. 27 Vending zones have been identified
and 8-10 vending zones are there.

 The creation of TVC on the initiative of NASVI in Mussoorie

 In Mussoorie mall road Street Vendors have been evicted
which according to Street Vendors Act, 2014 is not legal.
Some innocent vendors have been detained when they
spoke for the rights of street vendors
 Through Nasvi letter was written and various demands were
put up to Municipal Corporation, Mussoorie, DC Dehradun,
State Governor, and Urban Development Minister
Uttarakhand. NASVI is also taking up their issue.
 Allowing street vendors to vend at their places from where
they were evicted
Chattisgarh - In the state of Chhattisgarh the total number of Nasvi members are 576. TVC has
been formed here along with the rules and the scheme. 20 Vending zone has been designed in
Raipur. 300 vendors have been provided certificates. Footkar Vyapaar Kalyan Sangh has been
expanded till Ballarpur, Bhillai and Raigarh.

Jammu & Kashmir - There are 68 nasvi vendor members. There are no rules or schemes and TVC
in Srinagar. Only 2-3 meetings have been conducted with Municipal Corporation by the street
Vendors. Meeting was conducted with the Municipal Commissioner of Srinagar, in which we
talked about the issues of street vendors and NASVI’s reach in improving livelihood of the vendors.
NASVI shared the vision of training the vendors and the meeting ended with good vibes. It was
one of the best experiences with Municipal corporation commissioner; we are hopeful that we will
be able to do something historic in Srinagar. It is too early to visualize any progress at this stage,
but this meeting is a positive indicator that more development will happen in future in matters
relating to street vendors.

Successful completion Training of Street Food Vendors in Jammu and Kashmir - NASVI trained
500 street vendors in Jammu & Kashmir. Drugs and Food Control Organization, J & K (DFCO) has
also come forward and shown support in the commencement of training. The Pre-event
preparations done by team NASVI and NESTLE were appreciable. The Jammu and Kashmir vendors
were happy to have such training for them, as they felt the sense of belongingness.

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Assam - Rules have been made under the main act in Assam. Street vendors (Regulation of
livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending) Act, 2016 have been created and passed under the
orders of the Governor of Assam. Rules ensure the safety of the rights of street vendors. It was
emphasized that Town Vending Committees will be constituted by the State Government for
municipal corporation and other municipalities or urban local bodies related to municipalities or
town committees at the central and regional level. As of 2019 there are 25 urban local bodies in
Assam which are covered under the Vending Act.

TVC has been formed in every ULB, but it has been made in haste. Most of the identified ULBs like
Kokrajhar, Dhamaji, Diffu, Golaghat and Hailakandi have no information on the information of the
vending zone. Town Vending Committees Dull In only 11 ULBs out of 25, only some vendors have
been issued identity cards. Vending certificates have not been issued in any ULB nor have any
vending plans been made.

Odisha - On January 20, National Street Wenders' Day was organized by the local organization in
Bhubaneswar.Serve Safe Food Training Street Food Vendors was started in Odisha capital
Bhubaneswar on 4th October. This program is possible because of NASVI, KHADYA VIBHAG and
NESTLE. This event takes place in Bhubaneswar mainly because Bhubaneswar is a spiritual and
tourist place and therefore, the food safety in such regions is a must. Training was completed in
8 stages in which 500 Vendors were trained.

Maharashtra – In an encroachment drive in

Akola District of Maharashtra street vendors
were harassed by forcibly nabbing their
handcarts and belongings disrupting their
vending but through the intervention of
NASVI leader 2014 street vendors act was
explained to them according to which it is not
legal to evict the vendors and also brought to
the notice of the head of Akola Municipality
Shri Mishra, which led to allowing street
vendors to operate their vending from the places they were being removed. Pune Municipal
Corporation Hawker Market Patri Professional Panchayat Maharashtra State President Dr.
Babasaheb Ambedkar Secretary Balasaheb More, here about 87 vendors have been permanently
reinstated in Unicon and the same is named Pathari Professional Panchayat, Dr. Babasaheb
Ambedkar Moladina Hall, Pune Market.

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 Permanently reinstated Vendors Eviction in Andheri East-Mumbai

NASVI Street Foof on Netflix –

That’s the first line that narrates the trailer for Netflix’s upcoming series, Street Food, has
been launched on 26th april,2019. The show, has come from the team behind Chef’s
Table, was announced last month, and has aimed to “take viewers to some of the world's
most vibrant cities to explore the rich culture of street food all over the globe,” per
a tweet from co-creator Brian McGinn. Season one is all about Asia, and McGinn teased
that Street Food will visit nine countries total, including Singapore and India.This is a great
achievement for NASVI and street vendors as Dalchand ‘s story has been featured in the
series.

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Self Help Global
The exit from Streetnet of certain
member organizations, and the
negative impulses that comefrom
other affiliated organizations
regarding the way of governing in
Streetnet, has led NASVI (INDIA),
UPTA(SPAIN) and SIVARA
(ARGENTINA) to constitute a new
organization representingself-
employed workers, inside and
outside the informal economy.

This new organization, called Self

Workers Global, has statutes of
professional association, not of
NGO. Statutes approved by the
Ministry of Internal Affairs of
Spain, in accordance
withinternational legislation on
professional associations.

Our main objective is to claim

rights in social protection for self-employed workers, support thecreation of new self-
employment sites, homogenize the rights and duties of self-employedworkers around the
world, and denounce the attacks suffered by our affiliates by the differentgovernments.

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Our strength is based on transparency and participation. SWG will give voice to each and
every one of its member organizations, without vetoes, without interventionism.We want
SWG to have a trade union character as well as a representation, claim and
defensecharacter.

Challenges after 5 years of constitution of Street Vendors LAW

Street vendors are running out of patience: after getting the smart city hypothesis, the National
Urban Livelihood Mission Fund, the Act and in some places the court orders, the vendors are
unable to understand where their problem is due to difficulty. Their struggle is going on long
against powerful anti-forces and they are no longer able to bear it. They want solutions for their
livelihood.

Continuous involvement of central and state government: We see this as a major problem
because it will not be possible to implement the act without their involvement. They know about
issues but avoid joining it beyond a point. Municipal bodies work under the state government and
they work only on the instructions of the state government.

Town Vending Meetings: Town Vending Committees Meetings are not organized regularly. Even
taking decisions is not taken seriously. Municipal authorities are still making decisions without
consultation with the TVC, which is violating the Street Vending Act.

Urban forces are strong against Vendors: Market associations or resident welfare organizations
are struggling to use their money to prevent the development of development. Many people go to
courts and receive court orders to evict vendors without mentioning the Street Vending Act.

State Government tendering mechanism is faulty: it makes organization's partnership like us very
difficult and the agencies which are being taken on the tender often look at the street vendor
organization as a hurdle in their work. Many municipal bodies do not allow organizations
registered under the Societies Act to participate.

Capacity building of TVC members: More than 2000 TVCs have been set up but their capacity is
not being created and thus they are unable to clarify their needs.

To move forward in organizing street food vendors: It is good that we have come to this stage but
for organizing at the city level, further improve the work of committees at the state level.
Organizing is a good effort but we are prepared for it.

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