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Challenges Faced by Street Vendors

Street vendors are often those who are unable to get regular jobs in the remunerative formal sector on account of their low level of education and skills. They try to solve their livelihoods problems through their own meager financial resource. They are the main distribution channel for a large variety of products of daily consumption like fruits, vegetables, readymade garments, shoes, household gadgets, toys, stationery, newspapers, and magazines and so on. If they were to be eliminated from the urban markets, it would lead to a severe crisis for fruit and vegetable farmers, as well as small scale industries which cannot afford to retail their products through expensive distribution networks in the formal sector. This Research paper “Challenges of Woman Street Vendors in Cuddalore Town” is to elucidate the experiencing challenges of women Street vendors in Cuddalore Town, at the same time, to bring about the role and capacity of women to face the false opinion of the public that woman are weaker section and they have less capacity in involving social upliftment. A women Street vendor is basically self-employed private individual, bentupon making a living by honest means with a gen

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