Several States Yet To Conduct Street Vendor Surveys: Parliamentary Panel

The panel, headed by Jagdambika Pal, recommended preventing eviction of street vendors without formation and consultation of town vending committees.

Several states have not carried out vendor surveys and formed town vending committees even after seven years of Street Vendors (Protection of Livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending) Act, 2014, a parliamentary panel said in its report. The Standing Committee on Urban Development, which presented its report in Lok Sabha on Friday, sought to know the reason for the delay and recommended taking up the issue at the highest level, according to an official press release. The panel, headed by Jagdambika Pal, also recommended preventing eviction of street vendors without formation and consultation of town vending committees (TVC) in states. The Union Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) must explore the possibility of revisiting the ceiling on the number of street vendors at 2.5 per cent of the population of the city, town, zone and ward, the committee observed.