We hope that the street vendor act of 2014, has and will continue to provide street vendors with their rights and protect them from further exploitation. India urban region has more than 1 million street vendors. Indian street food is famous across the globe with every tourist who come to India wants to try the street food. Metropolitan cities have the most amount of street vendors in particular Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Ahmendabad. The street vendors open by their stalls at any place, you find them even on the main roads and every lane, which has given rise to congestion and traffic jam on the roads, the Delhi government has decided to allocate specific places in the city for street vendors and make mandatory their license. In Delhi there are more than 3 lac vendors but only 1,25,000 are legally recognized, the government has also taken measures to improve the condition of women street vendors. Street vendors have also been vendor of exploitation by the police and local municipality, where majority of the people depend on the street vendors for the purchase of their daily needs, with less price, which can provide profit to both consumer and sellers. It is an important element of urban economy and lifeline of majority of the people daily meal. Dr. Sumanta Bhattacharya | Debashis Sen | Bhavneet Kaur Sachdev "A Study on the Role Played by Street Vendors in Our Daily Life and Impact of the COVID 19 on the Street Vendors" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-5 | Issue-6 , October 2021, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd46472.pdf Paper URL : https://www.ijtsrd.com/other-scientific-research-area/other/46472/a-study-on-the-role-played-by-street-vendors-in-our-daily-life-and-impact-of-the-covid-19-on-the-street-vendors/dr-sumanta-bhattacharya
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A Study on the Role Played by Street Vendors in Our Daily
Life and Impact of the COVID 19 on the Street Vendors
Dr. Sumanta Bhattacharya
1
, Debashis Sen
2
, Bhavneet Kaur Sachdev
3
1Research Scholar at MAKAUT, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
2IAS, Chairman Cum Manager at West Bengal Housing Infrastructure Development Corporation, West Bengal, India
3Political Science Hons, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
ABSTRACT
We hope that the street vendor act of 2014, has and will continue to
provide street vendors with their rights and protect them from further
exploitation. India urban region has more than 1 million street
vendors. Indian street food is famous across the globe with every
tourist who come to India wants to try the street food. Metropolitan
cities have the most amount of street vendors in particular Delhi,
Mumbai, Kolkata and Ahmendabad. The street vendors open by their
stalls at any place, you find them even on the main roads and every
lane, which has given rise to congestion and traffic jam on the roads,
the Delhi government has decided to allocate specific places in the
city for street vendors and make mandatory their license. In Delhi
there are more than 3 lac vendors but only 1,25,000 are legally
recognized, the government has also taken measures to improve the
condition of women street vendors. Street vendors have also been
vendor of exploitation by the police and local municipality, where
majority of the people depend on the street vendors for the purchase
of their daily needs, with less price, which can provide profit to both
consumer and sellers. It is an important element of urban economy
and lifeline of majority of the people daily meal.
KEYWORDS: Street vendors, Delh