Lok Sabha Question No. 3452 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2022-03-24
Subject: Street Vendors Act
Ministry: HOUSING AND URBAN AFFAIRS
Asked by: Parvesh Sahib Singh

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

## MINISTRY

## OF HOUSING AND URBAN AFFAIRS LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.3452

## TO BE ANSWERED ON MARCH 24, 2022

## STREET VENDORS ACT

## NO. 3452 SHRI PARVESH SAHIB SINGH VERMA:

Will the Minister of HOUSING AND URBAN AFFAIRS be pleased to

- a) the progress of registration of street vendors under the Street
2. Vendors Act, 2014 in Delhi as on 2021;
- b) the details progress made for  carrying out vendor surveys, forming Town   Vending Committees (TVC) and notifying vendors zone market, State-wise;
4. the progress being made in amending Sections 283 and 431 of the Indian Penal Code, Section 34 of the Police Act to further streamline the provisions of the Street Vendors Act, 2014;
5. whether the Government has considered revisiting the ceiling on the number of street vendors at 2.5 percent of the population of the city, town, zone or ward and if SO, the details thereof; and
6. if not, the reasons therefor?

## ANSWER

## THE MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HOUSING AND URBAN AFFAIRS (SHRI KAUSHAL KISHORE)

- (a): As reported by NCT of Delhi, far, a total of 72,457 vendors have been identified:
- (b): Statement is attached at Annexure-I.

## (c): There is no such proposal:

- (d)&(e): There is no proposal for revisiting the norm mentioned in the Act. The Act provides that the plan for street vending shall ensure that all existing street vendors identified in the survey, subject to a norm conforming to two and a half per cent of the population of the ward, zone, town or are accommodated: Further, where the number of street vendors identified are more than the holding capacity of the vending zone, the TVC shall carry out a draw of lots for issuing the certificate of vending for that vending zone and the remaining persons shall be accommodated in any adjoining vending zone to avoid relocation: city

## ANNEXURE-I REFFERED TO IN REPLY TO PART (b) UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 3452 FOR ANSWER ON 24.03.2022

## Numbers of Street Vendors identified, Town Vending Committees (TVCs) constituted and Vending Zones notified

|    | StatelUnion Territory                 | Street Vendors Identified   | TVC constituted   | Vending Zones notified   |
|----|---------------------------------------|-----------------------------|-------------------|--------------------------|
|    | Andaman and Nicobar Islands           | 676                         |                   |                          |
| 2  |                                       | 2,56,926                    | 110               | 671                      |
| 3  | Arunachal Pradesh                     | 7,605                       | 21                | 20                       |
| 4  | Assam                                 | 54,984                      | 97                | 104                      |
| 5  | Bihar                                 | 1,56,965                    | 142               | 64                       |
| 6  | Chandigarh                            | 10,930                      |                   | 46                       |
|    | Chhattisgarh                          | 1,06,520                    | 156               | 65                       |
| 8  | Dadra and Nagar Haveli& Daman and Diu | 2,928                       | 2                 |                          |
| 9  | Delhi                                 | 72,457                      | 27                |                          |
| 10 | Goa                                   | 2,881                       | 14                | 26                       |
| 11 | Gujarat                               | 3,21,406                    | 163               |                          |
| 12 | Haryana                               | 1,17,028                    |                   |                          |
| 13 | Himachal Pradesh                      | 6,486                       | 52                |                          |
|    | Jammu and Kashmir                     | 31,777                      | 74                | 17                       |
| 15 | Jharkhand                             | 71,923                      | 50                | 0                        |
| 16 | Karnataka                             | 2,65,477                    | 277               | 67                       |
| 17 | Kerala                                | 23,154                      | 93                | 2                        |
| 18 | Ladakh                                | 427                         | 0                 | 0                        |
| 19 | Madhya Pradesh                        | 7,04,587                    | 378               | 2,080                    |
| 20 | Maharashtra                           | 5,84,416                    | 257               | 1,509                    |
| 21 | Manipur                               | 15,698                      | 27                | 13                       |
| 22 | Meghalaya                             | 1,764                       | 6                 | 0                        |
| 23 | Mizoram                               | 3,960                       | 6                 | 139                      |
| 24 | Nagaland                              | 4,302                       | 12                | 24                       |
| 25 | Odisha                                | 80,841                      | 114               | 145                      |
| 26 | Puducherry                            | 3,144                       | 5                 | 24                       |
| 27 | Punjab                                | 1,49,215                    | 163               | 241                      |
| 28 | Rajasthan                             | 1,93,568                    | 189               | 1,055                    |
| 29 | Sikkim                                |                             | 7                 |                          |
| 30 | Tamil Nadu                            | 3,09,449                    | 664               | 889                      |

| 31   | Telangana     | 5,02,233   | 141   | 33     |
|------|---------------|------------|-------|--------|
| 32   | Tripura       | 8,666      | 20    | 59     |
| 33   | Uttar Pradesh | 8,49,108   | 651   | 3,047  |
| 34   | Uttarakhand   | 26,483     | 78    | 70     |
| 35   | West Bengal_  | 673        | 92    |        |
|      | Total         | 49,48,657  | 4,171 | 10,410 |

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