Ktk keen to integrate hawkers in city infrastructure guideline
PTI | 01:11 PM,Nov 29,2011Bangalore, Nov 29 (PTI) Karnataka government is keen to integrate street vendors and hawkers in formal infrstructure policies like stall and allocation and market or pedestrian and road facility design guidelines, key people behind a study said today. A detailed analysis has already been carried in Bangalore in order to explore integration of the street hawkers and vendors into this formal infrastructure system. Use of pedestrian micro-simulation for arriving at design guidelines for footpaths integrating street vendors and hawkers has been underaken, according to co-investigators of the project -- Dr Ashish Verma and Dr Anjula Gurtoo from CiSTUP (Centre for infrastructure, Sustainable Transportation, and Urban Planning) Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. "The government of Karnataka is keen to pursue a formal integration policy for street vendors and hawkers," Verma told PTI. The two-member team explored pedestrian and facility policy guidelines for Bangalore city that considers and integrates provisions for hawkers and street vendors. The total sample size for street vendors/hawkers was 871 and for the customers was 779. The surveys clearly revealed the pattern of vending, the work related operational issues and concerns, and the 'entrepreneurial nature of their work. Some of the significant results were: The nature of the social set up and work preferences revealed that 72 per cent of the respondents preferred to continue with vending as their primary business. Reasons were two fold, a) family tradition, and b) low set up cost. Their work requirements varied with different types of localities and the choice of location was critical for business. The location was selected according to the demand for the goods they sold, ease of access to raw material and ease of access to transportation. (More)
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