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POLICY REVIEW

Figure 3: India – Pakistan Match audience in Cyberabad, Gurugram affordable services to large set of
urban population. Government
rules also permit anyone to have
a right of being a street vendor.
According to the policy,
hawker's zone needs to be
identified in the cities and spaces
be designated as 'vendors
markets' in the layout plan.
However, vendors encroach
upon footpath provided for safe
pedestrian movement. All
sections of society are involved
in such encroachment in the
name of earning their livelihood.
Source: Author's click The lack of formal means to earn
employment gives a push for
footpath users play an important (NGOs)/ Community Based informal occupancy of a space.
role in keeping the existence of Organisations (CBOs) or the Informalisation has led to a valid
the city social environment alive police but the responsibility of question regarding people's
(Loukaitou and Ehrenfeucht each and every citizen for right to work. It is not only the
2009). The social role of footpath creation of inclusive and safe vendor that occupies pedestrian
as public space co-exists with the spaces. The need to understand space but also other persons
fundamental role as a walking the actual utilization of spaces assembled around the vendors
space. and concept of safety associated that occupy the space. These

Footpath users have overlapping with such usage is important. people occupy not only the
purposes. In the absence of For example, a footpath is footpath space but also the road
formal job opportunities, people considered a 'gender neutral space by parking their vehicles.
engage in economic exchanges space', still there are many In the absence of space on
for basic survival on footpaths. It reported cases of female footpath and on the sides of the
is natural to observe such harassment on footpaths. This road, women are forced to walk
diverse conflicting uses in a city. indicates that policy interventions in the middle of roads leading to
The balance of such role is being alone can't grant equal accessi- accidents, chain snatching and
questioned. bility rights. (Crawford 2014). molestation etc.
FOOTPATH AS A PUBLIC National Street Vender Policy Certain uses permi ed to small
SPACE AND ITS USAGE of Government and its usefulness shops set up as part of street
for Informal Employment Vs.
Citizens play an important role vendor permits use which go
Footpath
in the optimum utilization of against the National Green
space for safe and resilient cities. The National Policy on Street Tribunal (NGT) Order of
The role of stakeholders is Vendors initiated in 2004 provision of clean and safe
crucial in creation of safe spaces. propagated urban vending as environment. These are also in
It is not only the task of Non- essential source of employment conflict with government's other
Government Organisations as well as a provider of policies. One such policy is Delhi

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