• A.B. Chakreshwari

Absract : India is a land of villages, where primary or agriculture sector is predominant . Majority of people depend on agriculture for their livelihood. But it has many problems and obstacles. This sector is overcrowded than its actual capacity. An excess of population than its potentiality is depending on it resulting in reducing the marginal income and profit, which is forcing them to find other alternative employment opportunities in any other sector. These people are migrating towards urban area in search of employment opportunities. Besides this there are many landless labors in rural area who find it difficult to get employment opportunities in rural area. So they also migrate to urban areas. Due to urbanization and industrialization there is a rapid acceleration of migration from rural area to urban area. Urban centers are unable to provide employment to all workforces in formal sectors. So they have to find other opportunities for the settlement. The easiest opportunity that they find in urban area or city is street vending business. It is an important activity related to informal sector in urban areas. Majority of street vendors are illiterate or educated at primary level. They have low skill and poor economic condition. . Vendors sell their goods like vegetables, fruits, clothes and other daily needed commodities and sell these in the competitive market at reasonable prices. Street vending provides job opportunity and means of livelihood to the migrants and urban poor but Urban Local Bodies consider it as illegal activity so far. In 2004, first time, Government of India recognizes vendor’s role in local economy after so many litigations and Supreme Court verdict in favor of vendors. National Policy on Urban Street Vendor, 2004 and 2009, Model Street Vendors (Protection of Livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending) Bill, are some of the initiatives taken by the Government. Other agencies like NASVI and SEWA have played major role to push vendors issue and formulation of policies in favour of street vendors. Vendors sell their goods in competitive market. The present study analyses the socio economic status of street vendors of Mysore city. This study also discusses the various problems faced by street vendors and to suggest possible solutions.

VENDORS, STREET, MIGRATION

"A MARKET REASERCH ON STREET VENDORS IN MYSORE CITY OF: KARNATAKA STATE. PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 2, page no.399-407, February-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1902559.pdf

"A MARKET REASERCH ON STREET VENDORS IN MYSORE CITY OF: KARNATAKA STATE. PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 2, page no. pp399-407, February-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1902559.pdf