Report Writing "Write a report on problem of street vendor in your city"
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Vending has been a profession since time immemorial, with street vendors an integral part of our urban history and culture. Shopping and marketing, in a traditional Indian sense, has primarily been informal. Social interaction is integral to Indian markets in contrast to the mechanized and sterile concept of shopping favoured by modern market and super market structures.
2) Where a spokesman type of organization takes the initiative to organize vendors. The organizing could either be accidental or a conscious decision. These organizations act as catalysts in the formation of vendors’ organizations. While proceeding systematically with the struggle, they place emphasis on capacity building of the vendors themselves. These organizations also successfully demonstrate methods of negotiating with the administration.
3) Through central trade unions, which either organize unions or affiliate independent ones. Such unions exist in most cities. In large cities there are several small unions affiliated to a central trade union.
4) Where the vendor is protected by political parties. Such organizations are generally amorphous with no regular membership and elected leaders, with leaders of political parties liasing between government, party and members. In many such situations, political parties have advocated the cause of vendors. Unfortunately, we often see a change in the perspective of political parties and leaders, once in power.
5)n of the National Alliance of Street Vendors, India in September 1998. The national alliance is a coalition of various trade unions and voluntary organizations, working to protect the rights and improving living conditions of hawkers and vendors. Over 225 organizations from 49 cities in 22 states of the country are today part of the national alliance.
The alliance urges the government to formulate a national policy keeping in view the following:
* Give vendors legal status by issuing licences and providing appropriate hawking zones.
* Protect and expand vendors’ existing livelihood.
* Promote and develop the natural market system.
* Make street vendors a special component of the plans for urban development by treating them as an integral part of the urban distribution system.
* Include vendors in town and city master plans.
* Issue guidelines for supportive services and social security at local levels.
* Set up a social security fund for street vendors.
* Promote self-governance among hawkers.
* Set up appropriate, participative, non-formal mechanisms like triparte or multipartite committees with representation from street vendors and hawkers, NGOs, local authorities, the police and others.
* Provide street vendors with relief in situations of disasters and natural calamities..
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Uncertainty and insecurity: The basic problems of street vendors is insecurity and uncertainty as their profession
is considered illegal, but according to government of India assessment done in 2004 shows around 2.5% of local poor urban population survive by working in this occupation.
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