Street vendors form a very important component of the urban informal sector in India. It is estimated that the total number of street vendors in the country is around 10 million.1 They comprise around 2% of the total population in the metropolitan cities. This paper broadly defines a street vendor as a person who offers goods for sale to the public at large without having a permanent built-up structure from which to sell.
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[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/feature-article/social-security-street-vendors
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/sharit-k-bhowmik
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[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/people
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[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/informal-sector
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/supreme-court
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