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A large number of people in our country including women, elderly as well as people with disabilities (PwDs) work as street vendors to earn their livelihood. They face number of legal, financial and enterprise related problems. Some organizations like SEWA and others have taken up various initiatives to strengthen street vendors and streamline the policy. A National Alliance of Street Vendors of India (NASVI) was formed in 2003 to bring together the street vendors organizations in India so as to take up policy and other issues. Further National Hawkers Association (NHA) also joined hands to support street vendors. The National Policy on Urban Street Vendors was adopted in 2004 with the objective of providing and promoting a supportive environment for street vendors. Government of India (GoI) has also approved inclusion of street vendors under the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana. Further, the Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation (MoHUPA) has come out with a model Street Vendors (Protection of Livelihoods and Regulation of Street Vending) Bill 2009.
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street vendors, Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty, Livelihoods, Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana, National Hawkers Association, Protection of Livelihoods
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