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Option 1 : Removing the laws that ban street vendors
The correct answer is - Removing the laws that ban street vendors.
- Street vendors sell things that are often prepared at home by their families who purchase, clean, sort and make them ready to sell.
- For example, those who sell food or snacks on the street, prepare most of these at home.
- There are almost one crore ‘street vendors’ in the country working in urban areas.
- Street vending was till recently looked upon only as an obstruction to traffic and to people walking.
- They can be asked to dismantle their shops at any time by the police. Hence, they have no security.
- However with the effort of many organisations it is now recognised as a general benefit and as a right of people to earn their livelihood.
- The government is thinking about modifying the law that banned street vendors, so that they have a place to work and that there is also a free flow of traffic and people.
- Hawking zones have been suggested for towns and cities.
- It has also been suggested that mobile vendors should be allowed to move around freely.
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Hawkers need to be part of committees that are set up to take these and other decisions relating to them.
Based on the above discussion, we can conclude that removing the laws that ban street vendors will help in generating more secure means of urban livelihood.
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