How informal vendors activate the university road ?

ACTIVITY MAPPING OF KHAU GALI

TOPIC - How informal vendors activate the university road ?

SUB-TOPIC - Activity Mapping of the street

RESEARCH - Mapping user groups and activities on the university road and to understand the activity
pattern on street

PROBLEM IDENTIFICATION – To understand the present activities on street and identify the
interfering activities, different stakeholders on street, types of activities at different times, and what can
possibly enhance the current scenario

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ACTIVITY MAPPING OF KHAU GALI
Introduction
• The street “Khau Gali” is located on University Road,
Navrangpura.
• The street has a series of food stalls selling noodles,
sandwiches, juice, etc. on one side of the university Ahmedabad
SCHOOL University
road abutting the college while on the opposite side,
there is mostly cloth.
• This market is very youth-oriented, and an immediate
hangout spot for university students. While looking at
the alignment pattern of these stalls, it appears that
each stall has a specific place in the series.
• The rush on these stalls starts slow with the day but by
evening it increases and at times results in traffic chaos
on street due to the lack of supporting parking
infrastructure on street. CEPT
• To analyze street activities it is important to observe UNIVERSITY
• The street at different times of the day
• To identify the key attraction points on the street
• To identify user groups on street
• To identify road infrastructure on the street
• To study the current traffic movement on the
street

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STREET VENDORS MANAGEMENT

AIM:
To study and understand the Provisions of the National
Policy for street vendors which has an overarching
objective to provide and promote a supportive
environment for earning livelihoods to the Street vendors,
as well as ensure absence of congestion and maintenance
of hygiene in public spaces and streets.

Further to identify it’s implementation on the university

road which is encroached by food vendors.

PROBLEM STATEMENT:
The existing policy aims to ensure that Urban Street Vendors, an important segment of the urban population, find
recognition for their contribution to society and is conceived of as a major initiative for urban poverty alleviation by
provision of and support to dignified livelihood.

Street Vendor are not acknowledge irrespective of contributions they create in the economy of India along-with the
services they provide. The Street Vendors Act, 2014 and National Urban Livelihood Mission have been established but
its implementation at the city level is yet to be made.

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STREET VENDORS MANAGEMENT
OBJECTIVES OF THE POLICY
Legal: To give vendors legal status by amending, enacting, repealing and implementing appropriate laws and providing
legitimate hawking zones in urban development/ zoning plans.
Facilities: To provide facilities for appropriate use of identified space including the creation of hawking zones in the
urban development/ zoning plans
Regulation: To eschew imposing numerical limits on access to public spaces by discretionary licenses and instead
moving to nominal fee-based regulation of access, where market forces like price, quality and demand will determine
the number of vendors that can be sustained. Such a demand cannot be unlimited.
Role in distribution: To make Street vendors a special component of the urban development /zoning plans by treating
them as an integral and legitimate part of the urban distribution system.

Self Compliance: To promote self-compliance amongst Street vendors.

Organization: To promote, if necessary, organizations of Street vendors e.g. Unions / Co-operatives/ Associations and
other forms of organization to facilitate their empowerment.
Participation: To set up participatory mechanisms with representation by urban vendors’ organizations, (Unions / Co-
operatives/ Associations), Voluntary organizations, local authorities, the police, Residents Welfare Association
(RWAs) and others for orderly conduct of urban vending activities.
Social Security & Financial Services: To facilitate/ promote social security (pension, insurance, etc.,) and access to
credit for Street vendors through promotion of SHGs/co-operatives/Federations/Micro Finance Institutions (MFIs)
etc.
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