Context
Bengaluru’s drive to clear street vendors from footpaths has raised questions about compliance with the Street Vendors Act, 2014. The issue involves balancing pedestrians’ right to safe public spaces with vendors’ constitutionally protected livelihood.
Explanation:
- The Street Vendors (Protection of Livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending) Act, 2014 regulates vending while protecting vendors from arbitrary eviction.
- It reflects the right to livelihood under Article 19(1)(g) and Article 21, subject to reasonable regulation.
- Every local authority must constitute a Town Vending Committee (TVC) comprising officials, local representatives and street vendors; at least 40% of its members must be vendors.
- The TVC conducts surveys, identifies vendors and demarcates vending, restricted-vending and no-vending zones.
- Existing vendors cannot ordinarily be evicted or relocated until the survey is completed and vending certificates are issued.
- A Certificate of Vending permits vending at specified locations and under prescribed conditions.
- The Act protects livelihood but does not confer ownership over public land or an unrestricted right to occupy footpaths.
- Removal is permissible only through due process, relocation and rehabilitation provisions under the law.
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