In addition to the PIB release,
same tune of no provisions in the Plan etc.... and now the move to Hawkers
Act
Asking the State for problems in implementation to amend the policy
meaning we can have more of sewanagar projects.
Hawkers Inc to get their rights
Vineeta Pandey
Wednesday, October 19, 2005 23:22 IST
The state governments and land developing agencies will now also have to
mandatorarily earmark land space in their Master Plan or Zonal Plans for
street vendors and hawkers. "So far there is no provision for social
inclusion of street vendors and hawkers at the town planning level. At
present, there are no legal bindings on the states in this regard. But we
are issuing instructions making it mandatory to keep space for these
people," said a senior official of the UEPA..........
While the interest of street vendors will also be covered under the National
Urban Renewal Mission, which will take care of basic services etc to them,
states will also need to pass a Hawkers Act which would prevent harassment
of the hawkers by the police and municipal authorities.
The central government is also going to get tough with states not
implementing the policy. The policy was framed to regulate the business of
the street vendors and hawkers in the country but despite a year after its
announcement nothing has happened in this regard.
http://dnaindia.com/report.asp?NewsID=6407&CatID=2
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> PIB MoUEPA Press Release: 19 October, 2005:
> MINDSET OF POLICE & MUNICIPAL AUTHORITIES TOWARDS
> HAWKERS SHOULD CHANGE - SELJA
>
> ... She was speaking after inaugurating the National
> Workshop on 'Urban Street Vendors' in the capital
> today. ... said that the centre has made a beginning
> towards giving hawkers a more dignified life under
> National Policy on Urban Street Vendors but said that
> not much has been done so far in its implementation.
> Kumari Selja urged the State Governments to come out
> with the problems faced by them in implementation of
> the National Policy so that necessary amendments can
> be made to facilitate proper implementation. She also
> said that the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) is
> monitoring the implementation of the policy ... Among
> those present on the occasion were Smt. Chitra Chopra,
> Secretary, UEPA and Shri K. Jaishankar, Member,
> National Commission for Enterprises in the Unorganised
> Sector
> http://pib.nic.in/release/release.asp?relid=12769
>
>
> ---
>
> by 2000 Manushi and SEWA were serious-fuss-making
> about this mindset problem. in 2001 SEWA-MoUD did
> national workshop and concluded need for national
> policy and Manushi wrangled a PMO policy for Delhi and
> in 2003 got MCD to try and get the supreme court to
> endorse its pilot-project in name of yet to be adopted
> national policy. SEWA was already using disbursing
> micro-credit out of some HUDCO routed funds. in 2004
> the policy was adopted by NDA and re-adopted by UPA
> and, to encourage adoption by states, put and re-put
> on the urban reform incentive fund checklist. UPA also
> made national commission (with SEWA and Manushi ladies
> as advisers). MPLADS funds were diverted to the
> MCD-Manushi pilot-project on roadside and even as that
> ran into problems MPLADS funds were committed to the
> MCD-SEWA pilot project in park. these funds seem to be
> for overheads of designer and facilitator inputs for
> which hawkers have to take loans from banks and are
> also not party to the MoUs. all this while hawkers
> themselves have been pointing out that they need
> neither any of this nor roads/parks but only the DMP
> space meant for small trade in planned commercial
> centres. That has been lost through dozens of illegal
> tenders to larger retail, including malls (despite a
> PIL jointly filed in 2002 by hawkers, other traders,
> residents, planner, in which DDA VC Madhukar Gupta
> brazenly conceded their illegality in an affidavit of
> 2005). the model-hawker-markets complementing this
> land grab were also challenged also in terms of the
> policy besides of DMP, including in intervention in
> the lousy case between area residents and MCD-Manushi
> in which the model-market seems to have survived
> albeit with difficulty. Counsel for the petitioners
> did not have till 19/10/05 a copy of the judgment that
> was reserved in May and pronounced last week and
> reported in Asian Age and Hindu. Hindu report of
> 15/10/05 is at:
> http://www.hindu.com/2005/10/15/stories/2005101505190400.htm
>
> And now this workshop.
>
> I know exactly what all is bothering them in their
> national policy (I am personally responsible for those
> little bits being in or out of it). And I know what is
> coming. Hindu report of 16/10/05 about retail traders
> turning to the Left on FDI issues (since BJP and
> Congress are the same) and accepting the suggestion of
> Mr Bardhan to organize conventions to mobilise opinion
> is at:
> http://www.hindu.com/2005/10/16/stories/2005101604160900.htm
> We saw what happened after that happened in the matter
> of industries last year. This time Mr VP Singh, while
> addressing a Left rally of traders might give his
> anti-Plan catch-phrases a go-by to exhort instead
> traders to fight FDI with RTI (at the Action-Aid
> poverty-concert he had called upon the poor to fight
> poverty with RTI, which, incidentally, is the only
> right other than right to collect tendu patta, etc,
> that their common minimum programme talks of)
>
> say thankyou very nicely to the mall-molls who put us
> on course to become mall-a-mall. cheers.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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same tune of no provisions in the Plan etc.... and now the move to Hawkers
Act
Asking the State for problems in implementation to amend the policy
meaning we can have more of sewanagar projects.
Hawkers Inc to get their rights
Vineeta Pandey
Wednesday, October 19, 2005 23:22 IST
The state governments and land developing agencies will now also have to
mandatorarily earmark land space in their Master Plan or Zonal Plans for
street vendors and hawkers. "So far there is no provision for social
inclusion of street vendors and hawkers at the town planning level. At
present, there are no legal bindings on the states in this regard. But we
are issuing instructions making it mandatory to keep space for these
people," said a senior official of the UEPA..........
While the interest of street vendors will also be covered under the National
Urban Renewal Mission, which will take care of basic services etc to them,
states will also need to pass a Hawkers Act which would prevent harassment
of the hawkers by the police and municipal authorities.
The central government is also going to get tough with states not
implementing the policy. The policy was framed to regulate the business of
the street vendors and hawkers in the country but despite a year after its
announcement nothing has happened in this regard.
http://dnaindia.com/report.asp?NewsID=6407&CatID=2
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gita Dewan Verma" <mpisgplanner@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <mpisgmedia@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2005 2:51 AM
Subject: [mpisgmedia] [scan] mindset towards hawkers should change [for
FDIin retail now?]
> PIB MoUEPA Press Release: 19 October, 2005:
> MINDSET OF POLICE & MUNICIPAL AUTHORITIES TOWARDS
> HAWKERS SHOULD CHANGE - SELJA
>
> ... She was speaking after inaugurating the National
> Workshop on 'Urban Street Vendors' in the capital
> today. ... said that the centre has made a beginning
> towards giving hawkers a more dignified life under
> National Policy on Urban Street Vendors but said that
> not much has been done so far in its implementation.
> Kumari Selja urged the State Governments to come out
> with the problems faced by them in implementation of
> the National Policy so that necessary amendments can
> be made to facilitate proper implementation. She also
> said that the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) is
> monitoring the implementation of the policy ... Among
> those present on the occasion were Smt. Chitra Chopra,
> Secretary, UEPA and Shri K. Jaishankar, Member,
> National Commission for Enterprises in the Unorganised
> Sector
> http://pib.nic.in/release/release.asp?relid=12769
>
>
> ---
>
> by 2000 Manushi and SEWA were serious-fuss-making
> about this mindset problem. in 2001 SEWA-MoUD did
> national workshop and concluded need for national
> policy and Manushi wrangled a PMO policy for Delhi and
> in 2003 got MCD to try and get the supreme court to
> endorse its pilot-project in name of yet to be adopted
> national policy. SEWA was already using disbursing
> micro-credit out of some HUDCO routed funds. in 2004
> the policy was adopted by NDA and re-adopted by UPA
> and, to encourage adoption by states, put and re-put
> on the urban reform incentive fund checklist. UPA also
> made national commission (with SEWA and Manushi ladies
> as advisers). MPLADS funds were diverted to the
> MCD-Manushi pilot-project on roadside and even as that
> ran into problems MPLADS funds were committed to the
> MCD-SEWA pilot project in park. these funds seem to be
> for overheads of designer and facilitator inputs for
> which hawkers have to take loans from banks and are
> also not party to the MoUs. all this while hawkers
> themselves have been pointing out that they need
> neither any of this nor roads/parks but only the DMP
> space meant for small trade in planned commercial
> centres. That has been lost through dozens of illegal
> tenders to larger retail, including malls (despite a
> PIL jointly filed in 2002 by hawkers, other traders,
> residents, planner, in which DDA VC Madhukar Gupta
> brazenly conceded their illegality in an affidavit of
> 2005). the model-hawker-markets complementing this
> land grab were also challenged also in terms of the
> policy besides of DMP, including in intervention in
> the lousy case between area residents and MCD-Manushi
> in which the model-market seems to have survived
> albeit with difficulty. Counsel for the petitioners
> did not have till 19/10/05 a copy of the judgment that
> was reserved in May and pronounced last week and
> reported in Asian Age and Hindu. Hindu report of
> 15/10/05 is at:
> http://www.hindu.com/2005/10/15/stories/2005101505190400.htm
>
> And now this workshop.
>
> I know exactly what all is bothering them in their
> national policy (I am personally responsible for those
> little bits being in or out of it). And I know what is
> coming. Hindu report of 16/10/05 about retail traders
> turning to the Left on FDI issues (since BJP and
> Congress are the same) and accepting the suggestion of
> Mr Bardhan to organize conventions to mobilise opinion
> is at:
> http://www.hindu.com/2005/10/16/stories/2005101604160900.htm
> We saw what happened after that happened in the matter
> of industries last year. This time Mr VP Singh, while
> addressing a Left rally of traders might give his
> anti-Plan catch-phrases a go-by to exhort instead
> traders to fight FDI with RTI (at the Action-Aid
> poverty-concert he had called upon the poor to fight
> poverty with RTI, which, incidentally, is the only
> right other than right to collect tendu patta, etc,
> that their common minimum programme talks of)
>
> say thankyou very nicely to the mall-molls who put us
> on course to become mall-a-mall. cheers.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> __________________________________
> Yahoo! Music Unlimited
> Access over 1 million songs. Try it free.
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