Now,govt to table Bill to protect street vendors

As much as 2.5 per cent of urban population would be eligible for getting vending licences as per the law. The estimates earlier worked out by the government pegs the current number of beneficiaries at over 10 million.

Street vendors across the country have been looking forward to this law as earlier this week the National Association of Street Vendors of India urged the government to expedite the process of passage of the Bill. This version of the Bill,once it becomes a law,also seeks to supercede any state law that is in conflict with it.

Believed to be the governments populist move at the urban centres in an election year,the Bill with 30 official amendments seeks to create a regulatory framework wherein vendors need to register with a Town Vending Committee.