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| Policy Reform Work for Street Vendors |
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| Street Vendors (Livelihood) Protection Authority |
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| Plan of Action Submitted to MCD Special Committee for Reforming Vendor Policy |
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Author(s) : Madhu Kishwar
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Street vendors in India provide a vital link between the producer and the consumer, connecting the two in highly innovative, cost efficient ways-- keeping in view regional specificities as well as varied requirements of people during different seasons, festivals as well as time of the day or night. As per the ... |
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| The History of the Sewa Nagar Pilot Project |
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| Criminal Mafias Sabotage Model Market for Street Vendors |
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Author(s) : Madhu Purnima Kishwar
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As per the Ministry of Urban Development, nearly 10 million persons earn their livelihood in India from street vending. It is estimated that 2.5% of the urban population is engaged in street vending. Accordingly, Delhi alone uses the services of at least 4,50,000 street vendors. But less than 3000 persons (less... |
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| Statement of Yogesh kumar |
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| An Illustrative Example of Police Complicity in Violence at Sewa Nagar |
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I am a member of Manushi Sangathan and was allotted stall number C87 in Sewa Nagar pilot project. My mother Saroj devi has stall number E 22.
In April 2003, Manoj Kumar alias Shiv Kumar of Sewa Nagar (Stall No. ) persuaded me against my mother's wishes into taking a loan of Rs 35,000 at an interest rate of Rs 10% pe... |
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| Police Complaint of Manoj Yadav |
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| An Example of Violence at Sewa Nagar |
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Complaint of Manoj Yadav to SHO kotla Mubarakpur dated 3rd january 2008. Manoj's stall was looted and money robbed by the Basoya gang on 3rd January 2008. Translated from Hindi by Manushi.
Needless to say, no action was taken on this complaint.
"My name is Manoj. I sell garlic, onions and other vegetables... |
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| License Quota Raid Raj for Cycle Rickshaws and Street Vendors |
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| Need for a Bottom up Agenda of Economic Reforms |
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Author(s) : Madhu Purnima Kishwar
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| The entire discourse on economic freedom and liberalization of the Indian economy has so far remained obsessively focused on the entry of transnational corporations, the concerns of the Indian corporate sector, and the fate of government-run public enterprises, as they prepare to deal with a market open to competition.... |
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| Emergency Avatār of Goddess of Good Governance! |
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| Manushi Swachha Narayani Descends to Protect Street Vendors |
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Author(s) : Madhu Purnima Kishwar
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On 12th March 2005, a new goddess, manushi Swachha Narayani chose Sewa Nagar hawker market as her abode. The Goddess evolved out of manushi’s work to protect street vendors from routine human rights abuses, humiliation, assaults on their livelihood and huge extortion rackets legitimized by archaic laws wh... |
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| Major Breakthrough for Street Vendors |
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| MANUSHI Hawker Market Project Gets Supreme Court Clearance |
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Author(s) : Madhu Kishwar
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In issue number 124 of manushi, we had published a report of a Jan Sunwayi (Public Hearing) of street vendors and hawkers organised by manushi in May 2001. The subsequent campaign on behalf of this sector as well as the cycle rickshaw pullers and operators of Delhi led to the announcement of a new reformed policy fra... |
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| Working Under Constant Threat |
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| Some Setbacks and Some Steps Forward in Sewa Nagar |
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Author(s) : Madhu Kishwar
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| Our plan of making the existing squalor ridden hawker markets into vivid examples of model markets for street vendors and their customers, reducing their heavy burden of payoffs, and promoting civic discipline, urban planning and citizen participation through self governance, has gone through many ups and downs since w... |
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