Bench advocated for social protection of vendors, recommending that fees collected by municipal corporation be allocated to separate budget for their welfare, including insurance & medical facilities.
Three years after its much-touted revamp, Chandni Chowk’s old chaos has returned with a vengeance. Now, it is ‘as congested & dirty as before’ right under signboards that promised change.
This has put Congress on a sticky wicket while it’s already facing flak—from outside and within—for Vikramaditya’s remarks amid comparisons drawn to similar orders issued by UP govt.
Directives to vendors to display names of owners & staffers are to prevent misrepresentation to Kanwar yatris & in line with central and state laws, says the Uttarakhand government.
Hawkers in Delhi market can’t get street vendor loan as NDMC doesn’t consider them legitimate, but civic body also hasn’t done survey to identify valid vendors in 3 yrs.
The scheme aims to facilitate collateral-free working capital loans to street vendors who want to restart their businesses that were adversely impacted during Covid-19 lockdown.
Civil and legislative bodies should formulate a simple and accessible legal framework for the regulation of street vendors to safeguard their rights, writes Priyank Nagpal.
Study by Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee & other scholars from US, UK and Canada found that fresh produce vendors charge high mark-ups but fail to adopt competitive market practices.
Rosneft, the Russian state-owned oil behemoth, has large interests in India. Reliance has a contract to purchase 500,000 barrels of crude per day from the firm.
Fresh details of operation conducted by IAF, Army have come out in gazette notification giving citations of those who were awarded Vir Chakra for their bravery.
Education, reservations, govt jobs are meant to bring equality and dignity. That we are a long way from that is evident in the shoe thrown at the CJI and the suicide of Haryana IPS officer. The film Homebound has a lesson too.
The day some milord’s car gets stuck in traffic at Manimajra, the High Court will lose all it’s “empathy” and we would have a nrw order asking the police to remove all street vendors and hawkers.
These things totally depend on the milord’s personal experience. The law hardly plays any role in such judgements.
The day some milord’s car gets stuck in traffic at Manimajra, the High Court will lose all it’s “empathy” and we would have a nrw order asking the police to remove all street vendors and hawkers.
These things totally depend on the milord’s personal experience. The law hardly plays any role in such judgements.