Informal workers—street vendors, domestic helpers, platform (gig) workers, construction labour, home based workers, sex workers, fisherfolk, scheme and health workers, forest workers, agricultural labour, garment workers and countless others—are the…
In 2014 the Manmohan Singh government enacted the The StreetVendors (Protection of Livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending) Act. There is a provision under this Act that a Town Vending…
Recent reports of a training program launched by the Punjab Government for street vendors are welcome. This training increases the capacity of vendors to provide safe food. This training has…
It is said that COVID does not differentiate. Yet, people on the margin have been differently impacted by COVID. Street vendors are one such vulnerable group. With lockdown, streets wore…
Bruhat Bengaluru Beedhi Vyapari Sanghatanegala Okkuta, a federation of street vendor unions across Bangalore, organised a protest march in Bengaluru on August 3rd 2016. The call for the protest/bandh was to…
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