A STUDY ON STREET VENDORS IN ANEKAL

INTRODUCTION

Street vendors are the people who make us feel that everything that is required for our
households is under our finger tips. We find many street vendors in almost every street in the
city of Anekal. Variety of stuff like Jasmine flowers, vegetables and fruits also household
utensils is available on streets. These days’ youths are attracted to tea stalls where they can
get relaxed with coffee and having conversation with friends. During this discussion we can
get clear picture of how roads are engaged with street vendors making it troublesome to walk
in peace.

Taking a glimpse at the historical backdrop of our nation, street vending has been a piece of
our way of life and tradition. Generally, during the hours of the Vijayanagar Empire, street
vending was mostly by selling of gold and silver products. The folk myth advised to
youngsters additionally discusses vending on avenues in one or the other ways. Recently,
street vending incorporates selling of eatables, to vegetables, to carpets. Customarily, these
sellers have been a part of our lives, till date. What's more, no place in history have they been
considered as obstacles to open spaces till colonial rule entered the nation.

Even today, there are many vendors who carry vegetables and fruits to our door steps making
it helpful. There are other people who keep the healthy tender coconut under the shades of a
tree and also through which are refreshing for the people who are exhausted by the hot sun &
it is also helpful for the patients. There are vendors who carry some snacks like steamed
groundnuts, wheel chips and so on which is nice to munch on. We find few cobblers on
streets who help us when we face problems with our foot wares. These are the services which
is easily available in our locality.

The street vendors clearly understands the customer’s needs and wants and comes up with the
wide range of products like eatables, toys, clothes and many other things what we wish to
buy.

Sadly with developing urban areas, expanding urban population, and decreasing business
openings the quantity of individuals taking to street vending have likewise expanded. A few
of the sellers live under pitiful conditions, scarcely ready to make a decent living. They get by
on a hand to mouth presence and not working for a single day regularly makes them and their
family starve for that whole day. Poor living conditions, weakness, rise in expenditure on
health care often leads to owing debts for longer duration. The role played by the street
vendors must be appreciated instead they are they are considered as unlawful substances and
are exposed to provocation by police and civic officers.

An enormous growth in the public infrastructure leads to the old tree lined city to a solid high
sky lined city designed with glass and granite. The development plans take away the
fundamental rights of the poor people subsequently making it difficult to acquire even a
single meal daily.

The biggest problem faced by street vendors is the police and corporation authorities, who
continuously force them to pay bribes. Inability of vendors to pay monitory bribes results in
taking away half their wares. Contrarily, however, the services provided by street vendors
have been acknowledged by the Supreme Court and National Street Vendor Policy as noble.
Considering that major population of India is below the poverty line, who cannot go to huge
malls to buy even basic necessities, it is through buying goods from street vendors that they
meet their requirements.

Definition of Street Vendors

‘A street vendor is a person who offers goods or services for sale to the public without having
a permanently built structure but with a temporary static structure or mobile stall’. They have
the choice of selling the products by making a little shop at the beneficial spot or by
conveying the items to better places without getting any permit for the sale of products.

The National Street Vendor Policy gives rules on setting up of state wise strategy for street
vendors.

 While the approach specifies that street vendors need a permit to use open places as a
way to sell their products, there is no limit on the quantity of licenses that can be
issued by the officials.
 Policies like pension, health care etc. should be given to street vendors.
 Every ward must have a commission, which will be liable to structure a location
centric policy, keeping the National Street Vendor Policy as a guiding instrument.

With the presence of such legitimate system, it is truly upsetting that street vendors have not
yet been acknowledged as a fundamental part of the general public. This activity is a little
contribution to improve the standard and socioeconomic background of the street vendors,
the developing difficulties they face in a changing city and how they overcome the various
pressures in their everyday life in Anekal.

OBJECTIVES

 To identify the challenges faced by street vendors in Anekal.

 To determine the importance of street vendors over the retail stores.
 To determine the various financial support for street vendors.

Problems faced by street vendors

 Numerous merchants however restricted space.

 Issues with site allocation frameworks.
 Issues with permit system in exchanging territories.
 Lack of storage & shelter facilities.
 Absence of access to credit.
 Deficiency of cash.
 Absence of skills.
 Lack of legal education among merchants.
 Power battle among pioneers influencing street vendors.

National Association of Street Vendors of India

National Policy

1. The street vendors (Protection of Livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending) Bill,
2012
2. National Policy on Urban Street Vendors 2009
3. National Policy on Urban Street Vendors 2004

National Association of Street Vendors of India (NASVI) is participation based association of

1,024 road merchants associations speaking to 10,00,000 road sellers from practically all
pieces of India. NASVI connects with national and state governments just as city bodies for
security of their privileges and qualifications through arrangement and administrative
instruments and new activities.
Set up to change the Policy condition for verified business of Street Vendors, NASVI has
been fruitful in getting a National Policy in 2004. 18 years of effort of NASVI to carry
acknowledgment to street vendors saw appropriation of a National Policy in 2004 which was
modified in 2009 alongside a model law being prescribed to states. By the way nonstop battle
of NASVI drove a notable enactment Street Vendors (Protection of Livelihood and
Regulation of Street Vending) Act 2014 which was been instituted by the Parliament in
February, 2014.

Area of Survey

The study will be held at various streets of Anekal city in various neighbourhoods. Highly
populated areas will be taken into consideration. The areas identified for survey are Anekal
bus stop, Rama Temple, Tilak circle, Mirza Road, Anekal circle, Anekal market, Hosur
mainroad and Attibele mainroad.

Anekal

Anekal, town arranged around 35 km from Bangalore, is a metropolitan town. The town was
established in around 1603 by Chikka Thimme Gowda of the Sugatur family, the General of
Bijapur, taking over Thimme Gowda's inherited assets of Hoskote, and he was given Anekal.
He immediately raised the fort and temple and developed an enormous tank. At the period of
his grandson Dodda Thimme Gowda, Anekal was added by Mysore. The Chief proceeded, by
paying tribute to Mysore. At last Haidar Ali removed the rulers, and Anekal turned out to be
a piece of Mysore. Diwan of Mysore sir Mirza Ismail is architect of the city, we can see even
today a primary street is named after him as mirza Road that interfaces Anekal-jigani road
and anekal-chandapura road. A part of tippu sultan armed force positioned in this town, the
region is named as Bahaddurpura, and presently the zone is changed over to a slum. When it
likewise accepting name as "ragi kanaja" of Bangalore. Since all the more number of ragi
producers are available.

Rama temple circle is one of the oldest and the busiest and most crowded place in Anekal
city. It is the heart of the city and it is a place we can get many kind of things. A vast range of
items are sold in the corners of Rama temple. As properly said by one of the street vendor
himself, you will discover all the household things everywhere on these streets. Being
halfway found and an extremely old place of Anekal, the street has congested streets and is
proposed for street broadening by the municipality.
ANEKAL MARKET

It is a wholesale market which deals with items in Anekal city. The market is located behind
Anekal bus stop. It has a Friday market for fresh fruits and vegetables and well known for
congested driving conditions. Early morning trades takes place between 4.00 AM to 7.00
AM. Once in a year the famous Droupadamma Karaga fair happens, where huge number of
devotees assembles to get the blessings of the goddess. Because of the festival there will be
closure of the market but more number of sellers comes to sell different products in huge
numbers. Presently, the roads are not in proper condition which leads to reduction in sellers
and buyers.
GOVERNMENT SCHEMES FOR STREET VENDORS

Karnataka Badavara Bandhu One Day Loan Scheme – Upcoming

The Karnataka government has decided to launch a new Badavara Bandhu One Day Loan
Scheme for street vendors/small time traders/footpath hawkers. Under this scheme the state
government will provide interest free loans upto Rs.1000 to all the people of urban poor
segment for a single day. Now, all such poor people will not have to take money from lenders
who provide loans at 5 to 10% per day. All the poor footpath vendors and small time traders
who need working capital on a day to day basis will get one day basis loans at no interest
charge. These loans are taken in the morning and needs to be repaid in the evening with upto
10% interest along with the principal amount.

Socio-Economic condition of street vendors

As referenced before, there are around 1000+ Street sellers in Anekal. Of the number
overviewed, we found that 80% of them were settled in Anekal while the rest lived in the
edges of the city or in the neighboring regions.

Reference:

https://www.academia.edu/31516999/Problems_Faced_by_the_Street_Vendors_in_their_Workplac
e_A_Study_with_Special_Reference_to_Tiruchirappalli_City_Tamil_Nadu_India