Lok Sabha Question No. 1962 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2020-09-22
Subject: Welfare of Hawkers and Vendors
Ministry: HOUSING AND URBAN AFFAIRS
Asked by: Devji Mansingram Patel

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF HOUSING AND URBAN AFFAIRS

## Lok SABHA

UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.1962

TO BE ANSWERED ON SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

## WELFARE OF HAWKERS AND VENDORS

No. 1962: SHRI DEVJI M: PATEL:

Will the Minister of HOUSING AND URBAN AFFAIRS be   pleased to state:-

- a) whether the number of un-registered hawkers and vendors in the country is very large and if the details thereof and the reasons therefor;
- b) the measures taken by the Government to create awareness among hawkers and street vendors to register themselves
3. municipalities;
4. the details of all the hawkers and street vendors registered in the
5. country during the last year, State-wise; and
6. the measures taken by the Government to regularise the business of street hawkers and vendors and ensure that the all Government benefits reach them?

## ANSWER

## THE MINISTER OF STATE (INDEPENDENT CHARGE) OF THE MINISTRY OF HOUSING AND URBAN AFFAIRS

(SHRI HARDEEP SINGH PURI)

(a)to(c): The data of unregistered street vendors hawkers is not maintained by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs: The Street Vendors (Protection of Livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending) Act, 2014, provides for survey of street vendors by the town vending committees, the composition of which consists of 40% as street vendors- informed by States/UTs, street

As the the total number of vendors identified far is 18,25,776. The details are

- (d): The  provisions in the Street Vendors Act, 2014 relating to survey of street vendors,  issuing them the Certificate of Vending and Identity Cards, and creation of vending zones in the cities are aimed at regularising the business of street vending:

Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs has, on June 01, 2020, launched Prime Minister Street Vendors Amta Nirbhar Nidhi Scheme (PM SVANidhi) as part of the Aatma Nirbhar Abhiyan: It aims at facilitating collateral free   working capital loans upto Rs 10,000 of 1 year tenure, to about 50 lakh street vendors across the country- It also provides for incentives in the form of interest  subsidy 7% per annum on regular repayment of Ioan and cash-back upto Rs: 100 per month on undertaking prescribed digital transactions- Further, on timely or early repayment, the vendors will be eligible for the next cycle of working capital Ioan with an enhanced limitFor the purpose of scheme   administration, an end-to-end solution through an IT platform has been developed in collaboration with Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI): The Ioan processing under the Scheme has commenced on July 02, 2020. PM SVANidhi has been advertised appropriately in various media-

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## ANNEXURE-I REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1962 TO BE ANSWERED ON 22 SEPTEMBER, 2020.

## STATEIUT WISE NUMBER OF STREET VENDORS IDENTIFIED AND CERTIFICATE OF VENDING ISSUED

| State Name        | Street Vendors Identified   |
|-------------------|-----------------------------|
| Andhra Pradesh    | 97,916                      |
| Arunachal Pradesh | 5,290                       |
| Assam             | 21,418                      |
| Bihar             | 65,842                      |
| Chandigarh        | 21,622                      |
| Chhattisgarh      | 31,853                      |
| Goa               | 1,151                       |
| Gujarat           | 2,13,789                    |
| Haryana           | 1,03,126                    |
| Himachal Pradesh  | 5,529                       |
| J& K              | 1,202                       |
| Jharkhand         | 37,173                      |
| Karnataka         | 1,17,936                    |
| Kerala            | 21,658                      |
| Madhya Pradesh    | 94,636                      |
| Maharashtra       | 1,10,708                    |
| Manipur           | 725                         |
| Meghalaya         | 843                         |
| Mizoram           |                             |
| Nagaland          | 722                         |
| Odisha            | 63,222                      |
| Puducherry        | 7,235                       |
| Punjab            | 82,646                      |
| Rajasthan         | 86,975                      |
| Tamil Nadu        | 1,03,011                    |
| Telangana         | 2,25,701                    |
| Tripura           | 8,666                       |
| Uttar Pradesh     | 2,68,756                    |
| Uttarakhand       | 21,188                      |
| West Bengal       | 632                         |
| Total             | 18,25,776                   |