From street vendors act, 2014 to high court orders: a case of systematic dispowerment of street vendors

By Asmita Tyagi, BA LL.B. Student Combination of the remedial, rights-based legislation, The Street Vendors (Protection of Livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending) Act, 2014, was enacted to redress forty years of historical judicial and administrative antagonism towards street vendors in India. The Act, which was based on constitutional guarantees under Articles 14, 19(1) (g)…