{"id":388,"date":"2015-05-31T15:56:24","date_gmt":"2015-05-31T15:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/indiafdiwatch.org\/?p=388"},"modified":"2015-05-31T15:56:24","modified_gmt":"2015-05-31T15:56:24","slug":"street-vendors-meet-the-chief-minister-of-delhi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiafdiwatch.org\/?p=388","title":{"rendered":"Street Vendors meet the Chief Minister of Delhi"},"content":{"rendered":"
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30 May, 2015:\u00a0 A delegation of street vendors leaders led by Dharmendra Kumar met Mr. Arvind Kejriwal, the Chief Minister (C.M.) of NCT. of Delhi. <\/span><\/div>\n
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A range of issues were discussed during the meeting. Hon\u2019ble CM was requested to revisit the Street Vendors (protection of Livelihood and Regulation of vending) rules, 2014 to make sure that the Town Vending Committee has representatives of street vendors democratically elected by all existing informal street vendors and not just by the already licensed ones. <\/span><\/div>\n
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The delegation welcomed the Delhi govt. notification issued on 19th<\/sup> Feb 2015 directing authorities not to disturb existing street vendors\/hawkers. It was also requested to create framework to allow new vendors. <\/span><\/div>\n
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The delegation thanked Mr. Kejriwal for his govt. stand to not allow foreign direct investment (FDI) in multibrand retail under territorial jurisdiction of Delhi. Last but not the least, the delegation presented a report to the Hon\u2019ble CM based on a survey conducted among street vendors from across Delhi. The study finds that street vendors continue to be harassed by various authorities especially the municipality and police. \u00a0According to the findings of the study, street vendors of Delhi are annually paying around Indian National Rupees (INR) 844 crores (almost 140 million US$) to personnel of municipality and police.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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30 May, 2015:\u00a0 A delegation of street vendors leaders led by Dharmendra Kumar met Mr. Arvind Kejriwal, the Chief Minister (C.M.) of NCT. of Delhi. A range of issues were discussed during the meeting. Hon\u2019ble CM was requested to revisit the Street Vendors (protection of Livelihood and Regulation of vending) rules, 2014 to make sure … Continue reading “Street Vendors meet the Chief Minister of Delhi”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiafdiwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiafdiwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiafdiwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiafdiwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiafdiwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=388"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/indiafdiwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":394,"href":"https:\/\/indiafdiwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388\/revisions\/394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiafdiwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiafdiwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiafdiwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}