Charting a digital path for street vendors in India

“Street vendors feed our urban areas”, state specialists from WIEGO (Women in Informal Employment, Globalizing and Organizing), a worldwide organization association. Food on roadside isn’t only for tourists, yet fundamental to food security for a large number of urban poor across the developing world.

In India, it is assessed that 50% vendors sell cooked food reasonable to many, and over 30% of them distribute vegetables & fruits taking into account more than 1/3 of the interest of metropolitan India.

Long periods of support catalyzed the milestone enactment ‘The Street Vendors (Protection of Livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending) Act, 2014’. The law secures the privilege to occupation through road distributing, tried to build up instruments for improved spatial value for sellers, participatory dynamic and administrative plans at city level. Hailed as a progressive legislation, the Act prepared forward on numerous challenges looked by roadside vendors.

Street distributing is frequently the primary retreat for an unskilled migrant, with an aspiration to progress.