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A legislation in offing to protect street vendors
Friday November 11, 2011 06:29:10 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: The
government is working on a central legislation for protecting the
livelihood rights and social security of street vendors, Housing
and Urban Poverty Alleviation Minister Kumari Selja said Friday.
She said a model bill that provides property rights to slum
dwellers has also been prepared by her ministry and it will be
circulated to all the states.
Talking to mediapersons here, Selja said the ministry had
circulated a model bill in 2009 concerning street vendors but only
one state had enacted a legislation.
The minister, addressing a press conference, said they will try to
bring in the winter session of parliament the draft Real Estate
(Regulation and Development) Bill, 2011 that seeks to establish an
oversight mechanism for the real estate sector.
She said the ministry got representations from street vendors and
their associations to bring a central legislation which would be
uniformly and mandatorily applicable across all states and union
territories.
"We have decided to go in for a central legislation... We are
working to evolve effective central legislation to protect
livelihood and social security of legitimate street vendors,"
Selja said.
She said the legislation will intend to prevent harassment of
street vendors by police and civic authorities.
The bill, she added, will be based on basic principles such as
demarcation of vending zones for street vendors, robust and
effective grievance redressal mechanism and adequate
representation to street vendors, particularly women, in
institutional structures created for proper implementation of the
proposed law.
Selja said the ministry was redeveloping the slum redevelopment
strategy by assigning property rights to them throughout Rajiv
Awas Yojana (RAY).
"We have gone for model bill and are sharing it with state
governments," she said.
RAY, which has been devised with the aim to make the country free
of slums, proposes decisive action for inclusive urban development
and acknowledges the presence of poor in the cities, recognises
their contribution as essential to the city's functioning and
redress fundamental reasons that tie them down to poverty.
The draft Model Property Rights to Slum Dwellers Act, 2011 says
that every landless person living in a slum in any city or urban
area on June 4, 2009 shall be entitled to a dwelling space at an
affordable cost.
Slum dweller or a collective of slum dwellers shall be given a
legal entitlement and the dwelling space provided shall not be
transferable.
The draft bill says that the dwelling space may be provided
"in-situ" (at the place of residence) as far as possible unless
dictated by public interest or natural exigencies.
It provides for constitution of grievance redressal committee and
establishing a state slum redevelopment authority.
Selja said to address the credit needs of economically weaker
sections, the ministry had proposed to create a credit risk
guarantee fund (CGFS) under RAY.
Under CGFS, the central government will provide credit guarantee
to housing loans upto Rs.5 lakh extended by lending institutions
for low income housing.
The guarantee cover available under the scheme would be to the
extent of 90 percent of the sanctioned housing loan amount for a
loan amount of up to Rs.2 lakh and 85 percent for loans between
Rs.2 lakh and Rs.5 lakh. A sum of Rs.1,000 crore has been
earmarked as initial corpus for CGFS.
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