Healthy snacking with a purpose at SARAS Fair 2025!

The Ministry of Rural Development–assisted SARAS Fair, organized by JEEVIKA (SRLM Bihar) at Gandhi Maidan, Patna (12–28 Dec 2025), is celebrating rural entrepreneurship at a national platform. Proud to share that NIDAN, in partnership with GAIN (Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition) and JEEVIKA, is supporting the SHG-led microfood enterprise of Sangam CLF, Mushahari, Muzaffarpur in bringing…

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)…