An Overview of Manushi's Endeavours for Policy Reform for Street Vendors and Rickshaw Pullers >> Manushi Journal, Manushi Sangathan, Manushi Magazine

Benefits to Government…

It will bring down crime level in society by breaking the nexus between the bribe seekers in the government and the local criminals who do this job for them for a cut.

With security of tenure, income levels of vendors will rise substantially and enable many of them to move to higher levels of entrepreneurship.

If people are not allowed to earn their living through honest hard work, if they see the police and government officials extort money through coercion and blackmail, more and more people are likely to gravitate towards crime, making the lives of all of us unsafe. It is time we realised that safety is indivisible, so let us protect vulnerable groups of citizens from daily economic and human rights assaults.