Socio-Economic View on Street Vendors: A Study of a Daily Market at Jamshedpur

Abstract

The term ‘Street vendor’ refers to those who are unable to get regular jobs in the remunerative formal sector on account of their low level of education and skills. However, street vending is an important activity related to urban areas. The terms Street vendors describe them are based on time or place where they work. The present study comprehensively covers the in depth views about their daily marketing and some spatial issues of street vendors near Tatanagar Rail Station, Jamshedpur. The present researchers attempt to explore the soo-economic milieu of street vendors of above said areas. The data has been collected by using observation method, interview with the structure and unstructured questionnaire and other qualitative methods including case studies. The study demonstrates that the male street vendors living into better condition with respect to income status compared to the female street vendors. Although, the study also indicates that the pattern of subsistence in the daily market were not comfortable for street vendors; where most of the street vendors were not fit on the street daily market although they have no better option for living the live.

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Parikshit Chakraborty

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  • EP ID EP398195
  • DOI 10.24321/2349.2872.201804
  • Views 159
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Parikshit Chakraborty (2018). Socio-Economic View on Street Vendors: A Study of a Daily Market at Jamshedpur. Journal of Advanced Research in Humanities and Social Science, 5(1), 14-20. https://europub.co.uk/articles/-A-398195