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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Vendors Bill introduced in Lok Sabha

Vendors Bill introduced in Lok Sabha

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published Published on Sep 8, 2012   modified Modified on Sep 8, 2012
-The Hindu

The Street Vendors (Protection of Livelihood & Regulation of Street Vending) Bill, 2012, was presented in the Lok Sabha by Union Minister of Urban Housing & Poverty Alleviation Kumari Selja on Thursday. The Bill, which seeks to protect the rights of vendors and regulate their activity in public areas, has provisions for setting up vending zones where street vendors can sell their products without fear of being fined and harassed by the municipal authorities and the police.

The Bill defines “street vendor” as a “person engaged in vending of articles, goods, wares, food items or merchandise of every day use or offering services to the general public, in a street lane, side walk, foot path, pavement, public park or any other public place or private area or by moving from place to place and includes hawker, peddler, squatter and all other synonymous terms which may be local or region specific”.

As per the provisions of the Bill, anyone over 14 years of age who intends to do street vending can register himself/herself with the Town Vending Committee (TVC), which will have also representatives of the vending community. Every TVC will have grievance redressal committee headed by retired sub judge or magistrate or executive magistrate.

The Bill which was pushed by Sonia Gandhi-led National Advisory Council makes it mandatory for the vendors to get themselves registered with the TVC which will issue vendors identity cards.

The TVC can not reject any application “without giving the applicant an opportunity to rectify deficiencies, if any, and affording him an opportunity of hearing”, mandates the Bill which also given preference to members of the Scheduled Castes, the Scheduled Tribes, women and physically disabled persons in granting certificate of registration.

Seven-day notice

The Bill empowers local authorities to evict vendor on account of public obstruction of the street or in case the vendor fails to comply with the provisions of the Bill. But it also says: “No street vendor shall be evicted or relocated by the local authorities from the site allocated to him unless he has been given seven days notice.”

Other important provisions of the Bill include developing Street Vending Plan and framing social welfare schemes by every municipal body to promote supportive environment for street vendors.

Civil society groups have hailed the tabling of the Bill in Parliament but have disagreed with some provisions like eviction/relocation of street vendors after notice of seven days and the proposed legislation being not applicable to the land and premises belonging to the Railways.

National Association of Street Vendors of India (NASVI) national coordinator Arbind Singh termed the provision of eviction/relocation of street vendors after the notice period of seven days a “bad leaf in a good bunch”.

“We stand for no eviction of street vendors. If in any extraordinary situation relocation becomes a critical public necessity a clear provision of giving at least three months notice should be there in the law”.

The Hindu, 8 September, 2012, http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/article3872981.ece


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