1. 1 Agenda for Action: Towards People Friendly World Class Cities By repeated clearance operations that allow criminal mafias to prey on vendors, the Government works hard to destroy our Swadeshi Retail Sector while going out of its way to make space for Indian and foreign corporatesin India’s retail sector. Let the Walmarts and Ambanis demonstrate their ability to compete with our street traders who form the most efficient retail distribution network in our country. It should be mandatory for City Development Plans under the JawaharLal Nehru Urban Renewal Mission to integrate the livelihood concerns of the self employed poor. At present JNNURMis altogether silent on the need to allocate space for hawkers and other micro enterprises, including important service providers like cobblers, road side dhobis, cycle and auto repair outfits and so on.

4. Make efficient and transparent arrangement for collection of vending fee appropriate to the income potential of the area.

6. All claims and conflicts will be resolved by the Grievance Redressal Committees set up for each Hawker Zone by the Task Force; the Committees will have at least 30 percent representation of local vendors.

7. Each vendor identified in the Census will be provided an identity card; it will list on it close family members who are actively part of the vending operation.

8. Each card will be valid for three years; at that time a fresh Census will be undertaken to verify if the vendors allotted spaces have continued personally as the principal vendors in the space allotted to them.

9. Each vendor made to sign an oath that requires vendors to:

10. Maintain cleanliness

11. Stay within the sanyamrekha and refrain from building any extra structures or extensions.

12. Pay monthly rental, municipal taxes and electricity dues on time.

14. Vendors will also undertake an oath that they will not sublet or rent out the vending site as and when allotted to them.

15. The Registration committees will identify new Hawker Zones or vacancies in old Hawker Zones with the assistance of a computerized database.

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19. 9 Benefits to Government Giving security of livelihood to vendors on the lines suggested by Manushi the Government has a lot to gain If vendors’ status is legalized, the municipal income will rise substantially. At a modest average of Rs. 200 per vendor (with a higher afeefor high business volume markets the municipal agencies will earn a minimum 2400 crores of rupees a year from the more than one crore vendors operating in India. At an average of Rs. 100 per month per vendor for use of electricity, the Electricity Boards would earn huge revenues every year from street vendors using legal power connections. At present vendor in big cities pay a bribe of Rs. 100 to 600 per month for stolen electricity.

20. 10 Benefits to Society at Large… It will bring down crime level in society by breaking the nexus between the bribe seekers in the government and the local criminals who do this job for them for a cut. People who are busy earning a dignified do not easily gravitate towards crime. With security of tenure, income levels of vendors will rise substantially and enable many of them to move to higher levels of entrepreneurship. Safety is indivisible. If the poor see government officials and police harass them for bribes, they lose respect for laws and tend to seek patronage of criminal mafias. In the safety and security of the poor lies our own safety.