CHANGING PARADOX OF STREET VENDORS AND VENDOR ZONES IN INDIA

Abstract

The number of hawkers and street sellers in major
urban areas is steadily rising every day. Unauthorized
commerce is being conducted indirectly by sellers on
sidewalks and in marketplaces, posing a threat to
malls, superstores, and other legitimate retailers. The
opposite side of the coin Globalization and healthy
competition in the global market encourage
manufacturers to provide high-quality products at
competitive prices, and they invest in malls, super
markets, big bazaar and other retail locations, as well
as purchasing furniture and other amenities like
seating arrangements, lighting, lifts, advertising and
cleaning. But street vendors have posed a challenge
to retail malls for the last forty years. The Street
Sellers (Protection of Livelihood and Regulation of
Street Vending) Bill, 2014, was enacted in the Rajya
Sabha, ensuring the protection of street vendors'
rights and social security. Creating a "conducive"
climate for street sellers and designating specific
locations for them to operate was the goal of the
legislation enacted by the House. The purpose of this
working paper is to gather information from many
perspectives and to provide recommendations to
municipal corporations, the government, and
sidewalk vendors on how to regulate the footpath
market. The findings of this study will be used to
form a strategy for bringing ecological,
administrative, and economic development
marketplaces as an engine for economic growth in
India.