Bihar Urban Livelihoods Mission

DAY-NULM Component

SUSV

Support to Urban Street Vendors (SUSV)

This component aims at skilling street vendors, support micro-enterprise development, credit enablement, and pro-vending urban planning along with supporting social security options for vulnerable groups such as women, SCs/STs, and minorities. Up to 5 percent of the total DAY-NULM budget has been earmarked for this component.

City-wise periodic socio-economic survey of street vendors has been conducted to register street vendors for issuing Identity cards to street vendors. A database of street vendors has been developed and maintained in each city. This enables the ULBs to prepare pro-vending urban planning and provide space for street vending.

Skill Development and Micro-enterprise Development support for Street Vendors 8.3 Under DAY-NULM, poor and EWS street vendors in urban areas can access skill training under the EST&P component of DAY-NULM and micro-enterprise development support under the SEP component of DAY-NULM.

Street Vendors are also encouraged to access basic banking services. Additionally, efforts are being made to cover individual beneficiaries with Credit Cards to enable street vendors to access working capital and other purposes.

The component also envisages the development of vendors’ market/vending zones/informal sector markets per Town Vending Plans with infrastructure/civic facilities such as paving, water supply, solid waste disposal facility, lighting, storage space, parking facilities, etc.

Besides above mentioned, street vendors are also encouraged to access other social security benefits available to them through various schemes of the Government of India (such as Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana), state-level and city-level social security, and social assistance initiatives/schemes.