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    The document discusses the Street Vending Act and its implementation in Ahmedabad, India. It provides background on street vendors and their important economic role. A recent encroachment drive displaced thousands of street vendors in Ahmedabad. The act was meant to protect vendors' livelihoods but its implementation has negatively impacted many due to delays, improper planning, and lack of notice given to vendors.

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    Problem Solving for Social Change

    Topic: The Street Vending Act and Right to Public Spaces

    By:

    Group 2

    Roll NO. Name


    AU1814004 Sreya Nair
    Abhimanyu
    AU1814007 Bhati
    AU1814010 Nivesh Agrawal
    AU1814013 Shalini Shukla
    AU1814026 Athul Nair
    Khushboo
    AU1814030 Hasrajani
    Akshta
    AU1814034 Ramrakhyani
    AU1814045 Jyoti Jetwani

    AU/AMSOM/MBA-1/Problem solving for Social Change/Group 2 Page 1


    Background:
    “Street vendors form a very important segment of the unauthorized sector in the country. The consensus shows
    them to be 2% of the total population with women constituting a large segment in almost every city. Street
    vending is surely a source of self-employment which on the other hand also provides affordable and convenient
    services to majority of the urban population”. This quotation in the National Policy on Urban Street Vendors,
    2009, describes the economic context of street trade in Indian cities, indicating their important role in the urban
    economies. Thus, the urban economy is also benefitted by the street vending activity because of the trend of
    street trade being famous in almost every city.

    Further discussions on this topic have agreed on the fact that the street vendors play a very important role
    rather useful role in keeping the streets safe. Street vending helps in creating hopes for the unemployed to
    become self-employed. It provides entry level livelihood and reduces possibilities of violence. This therefore
    suggests that street vendors are the “eyes on the street” and hence planning practices should take care of their
    spatial and services’ needs.

    In Ahmedabad there are a total of 75,233 street vendors of which 49,511 are selling in the central part of the
    city while 25,722 are located in non-central areas. The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation started an
    encroachment removal drive wherein the street vendors were asked to vacate places. This is not the first time
    that such a drastic attempt was made on their livelihoods.

    Between 2009 and 2012 an estimated 4,000 vendors were displaced owing to the BRTS project, Kankaria lake
    development and model road expansion projects which had caused an estimated loss of Rs 104.6 crore losses
    annually to them. Hence, ‘The Street Vending Act, 2014’ was legalized for the protection of livelihood and
    regulation of street vending. According to this act a survey of the street vendors is taken on the basis of which
    they would be issued for a license for vending and provided a vending zone for carrying out their business
    activities. The problem arose when the action of encroachment drive peaked up the unemployment within a
    certain population whose major livelihood was dependent on street trading.

    The key stakeholders affected are the vendors themselves as they are at a loss of earning income, their family,
    the consumers and the government (economy is also affected). The main issue arose due to the in capabilities of
    the government personal, the survey which was conducted earlier was found to be irrelevant. Municipal

    AU/AMSOM/MBA-1/Problem Solving for Social Change/Group 2 Page 2


    commissioner Vijay Nehra told that “We are conducting another round of survey as per the street vendors Act
    2014. Soon we will earmark space for vending on the streets. But this process will take time”.

    The longer the survey takes the more people will be evacuated and loss their livelihood. Supporting this, the
    total number of street vendors with license is just 724 out of 11000. In fact, there is only a handful who knows
    that license is essential to place a handcart and addition to this the officials collect an amount of money from
    the vendors to operate at the roadside. People are also upset because of the sudden evacuation of the vendors
    and many famous food street have been destroyed and deserted it’s like sucking the life out of a city. The
    vendors should be given one week pre-notice for the evacuation but no such procedure has been followed as the
    official are not yet completed with survey.

    The street vending gave many of the people the power of self-employment which has been snatched away.
    Against this, The report was compiled in 2017 by centre for civil society to known the status of implementation
    of the law and Gujarat ranked 20 among states with the least compliance to implementing the vendor act, while
    Delhi is the best in the country, that is also the reason why the government is taking fast action against the act
    but because of the inappropriate planning and strategy from the side of government the vendors had to suffer.

    Assumptions:
    • The vendors were not given any prior notice.
    • The officials had not worked properly.

    Conclusion:
    The act was made to secure the livelihood of the vendors and to make space for the city but it turned out bad for
    the vendors as they are the only one effected by this act, the economy also has to suffer as vendor were a good
    income generating source for the economy.

    AU/AMSOM/MBA-1/Problem Solving for Social Change/Group 2 Page 3


    Bibliography
    Street Vending Act. (2017). DNA .

    The Street Vending act and Right to public spaces . (2014). National Association of street vendors in India .

    AU/AMSOM/MBA-1/Problem Solving for Social Change/Group 2 Page 4

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