CHENNAI - STREET VENDOR MANAGEMENT

Chennai is one of the rapidly urbanizing metropolitan cities, with various areas of development and improvement. Urban facilities were observed, analyzed, and surveyed, one such essential area to be looked at and managed was the street vendors across the city. Street vendors, residents, corporation officials, and other stakeholders were interviewed and surveyed, activities and infrastructure facilities were mapped. Various issues, schemes, and policies were analyzed on both the ULB and the street vendor level and were benchmarked with the cities in the country. Thus, proposals concerning major issues of registration, tracking of vendors, and provision of basic infrastructures were proposed.