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Street Vendors Bill will be passed in current session: Maken

-The Hindu

Asks municipal bodies to halt vendor eviction drives

Union Minister of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation Ajay Maken on Wednesday said the much-awaited Street Vendors (Livelihood Protection and Regulation of Street Vending) Bill will be passed in the current session of Parliament.

He was speaking at the street vendors’ Parliament, organised by the National Association of Street Vendors of India (NASVI), at Jantar Mantar here to press for the enactment of the Bill and to protest against incidents of abuse by municipal authorities and the police.

While arguing that the fast urbanising India needed to protect the livelihood, social security and human rights of millions of street vendors, Mr. Maken said: “As the Parliamentary Standing Committee has tabled its report, we will see to it that the Bill is passed in the ongoing session itself. We strongly believe that a comprehensive legislation protecting street vendors’ livelihood is a critical social and political need of the country.”

The Union Minister said 2.5 per cent of a city’s population will be eligible for vending licences under the upcoming legislation and it will be mandatory to form Town and Zonal Vending Committee in each and every city. Such committees will have mandatory representation of vendors, besides those from town planners, administrators, police and elected peoples representatives.

Expressing concern over the incidents of harassment and eviction of street vendors, the Minister said: “Till the time the Street Vendors Livelihood Protection Act comes into effect, no vendor should be evicted and displaced.”

He asked municipal bodies across all urban centres to halt their vendor eviction drives. Mr. Maken also said that vendors who applied to the Delhi Municipal Corporation and the New Delhi Municipal Council for vending licences in 2007 should get them at the earliest.

Describing the vulnerability and marginalisation of the working poor, like street vendors, as a serious “development disorder,” Mr. Maken said self-employed street vendors also had equal stakes in projects of development and democracy.

“How can a city become inclusive and vibrant without integrating working poor in city development planning?” he said.