The campaign, spearheaded by the National Association of Street Vendors of India (NASVI), will run till August 10. If no headway is noticed till then, NASVI would launch a fresh agitation targeting the government.
"There should not be any delay in introducing and passing the bill. Inclusive central legislation is the critical need of the time as it would check the growing victimization of street vendors," says Arbind Singh, national coordinator, NASVI.
According to Singh, since the time of framing the National Policy for Urban Street Vendors in January 2004, more than a million street vendors have been displaced in the name of various development projects or city beautification drives. "The 2010 Commonwealth Games hit thousands of vendors in the national capital. This year, vendors and hawkers faced brutal police action in Mumbai. A large number of them were displaced and a fruit vendor Madan Jaiswal died of heart attack during police action. His daughter also died battling trauma. The incident led to a series of protests, but the guilty police officials remain unpunished," says Singh.
Ranjit Abhigyan, program manager, NASVI recalls the root of the proposed legislation in the street vendors' agitation, the 2010 Supreme Court verdict and the diligence of the National Advisory Committee (NAC) which recognized the merits of NASVI's advocacy for central law in favour of street vendors.
"In last three years, we spearheaded series of campaigns and engaged with the NAC and the Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation (MHUPA). The NAC deliberated on the issue in its several meetings. In May 2011, it recommended a central law to the government. The attorney general also gave his opinion in favour of central law for street vendors in November 2011," says Abhigyan.
From the initial tabling of the bill in Lok Sabha by the then Union minister of housing and urban poverty alleviation Kumari Selja on September 6, 2012 the bill went through many changes. It was finally approved by the union cabinet on May 1, 2013 and was expected to be passed in the Budget session. But the political logjam stopped that from happening.
The reworked Bill vetted by the Union Cabinet has many salient features such as inclusion of railway vendors (omitted in the earlier bill), empowering the town vending committee on settling all issues determining vending zones and providing a strong grievance redressal mechanism. The most important feature of the bill entails its overriding powers over all state and municipal laws as well as the Police Acts.
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