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A full fledged documentation centre has been established in the secretariat. The list of documents has been circulated among all the partners and they are supplied with the documents on demand without any charge. Needless to say, there is also some demand from others from different part of the country. The list of the documents available is being given below:

GENERAL

  1. AIMS-Assessing the Impact of Micro enterprise Services, Managing Resources, Activities and Risk in Urban India: The impact of Microfinance
  2. Shramshakti-Report of the National Commission on self employed women and women in the informal sector.
  3. Urban Informal Sector: Size and income generation process in Gujarat
  4. Census of Hawkers and Vendors in Patna-Nidan
  5. Census Survey of Hawkers on BMC Lands (March 1998)
  6. Urban Basic Services for Poor (Gaya District of Bihar) August 1999
  7. Struggling to be heard- Asian women in informal work (Report)
  8. Hawkers and Vendors- A Report
  9. Management in informal sector-hawkers – A seminar report by Meena Patel
  10. Street Vendor's Conference, Bellagio, Italy (21 Nov, 1995)
  11. Opening cities to the poor: The case of street vendors-Nicala Cunning
  12. Women workers in the informal economy and organizational challenges- A perspective
  13. A survey of the problems of street vendors.
  14. Women Workers- An agenda for the future-Ela. R.Bhatt. Sewa, Ahmedabad

ACTS/Rules
  1. Legal Claims of hawkers in India by- Usha Jumani, Bharati Joshi
  2. Police Acts (2002)
  3. Patna Municipal Corporation Act, 1951
  4. Municipal and Police Laws
  5. The Karnataka Regularisation of Unauthorized Constructions in urban areas Act. 1991
  6. State Amendments (The Police Act, 1861, Indian Penal Code).
  7. Scheme of Bangalore Municipal Corporation for the regulation of the business of hawking being carried out on the pavement of Bangalore city.
  8. Gajipur Municipal Corporation: Situation & Activities
  9. The Karnataka Highways Act 1964
  10. Legal provisions for street vendors under the constitution
  11. The Karnataka Unorganized Workers Welfare Bill 2001
  12. Air1997 supreme 152 constitution of India Arts 14,21.
  13. National Association of street vendors of India (In the Supreme court of India ) Application for intervention on behalf on applicant with affidavit.

Publications/Articles

  1. Developing vendors and traditional market places-A strategy in poverty alleviation
  2. Organising street vendors by- Arbind Singh
  3. Cities for all- A note on globalization and the women street vendors, by- Arbind Singh
  4. Approach paper-Theme: Hawker's economic development and problems of livelihood
  5. Perspectives-Shifting cities- Urban restructuring in Mumbai-Swapna Banerjee
  6. Reforms for the poor-Writing on the wall-Ashok V. Desai
  7. Violence of Commodity Aesthetics Hawkers, Demolition, Raids and a new region of consumption-Arvind Rajagopal
  8. A method of analysis of the pedestrian system of a town centre: Nottingham City
  9. Pedestrain traffic in town centres-Johan Th. Gantvoort
  10. Pedestrian street in central Copenhagen –Kai Lemberg
  11. Pedestrianisation-Shopping streets in Scotland-James Smith
  12. Perpectives of a policy-Nirmal Mkaji
  13. The limiter education- Nandu Ram
  14. The only way-Devaraj
  15. A new criterion-Jandhayala B.G. Tilak
  16. Informal markets and street vending: the case of Delhi roaming merchants- by Parviy Dabir Alai 
  17. Livelihood impact of intervention by the National Alliance of Street Vendors.
  18. Report on the study 'street vendors in urban centre of India"
  19. Draft speech for the C.M. of Karnataka prepare by-Lukose Vallatharai, Commissioner of Labour
  20. Functioning of nagar panchyat-A case study –Sahbhagi Shikshan Kendra
  21. Street Vendors in Manipur (A profile)
  22. A study of street vendors of Boudh
  23. Kashf Foundation-presented at the Microcredit Summit, Meeting of Councilors, New Delh, February 1-5, 2001 (Rusharnch Zafar, M.D. Rash Foundation
  24. Issues facing women workers in informal work- similarities & specifices.
  25. Elements of advocacy and lobbying-a brief note by (Committee for Asian Women, preferred for the regional workshop on : Issues facing women workers in informal work, organizing, lobbying and advocacy, 6th -8th Nov, 2001, Bangkok.

Reports
  1. Report of the State Level Workshop held in Rajasthan (At the Forest Training Institute, Jaipur (Hindi & English) on 6.7.02
  2. National workshop on the legal status of street vendors in India-Prashant Ghulati (1998)
  3. A report on northern regional meeting of NASVI (5-6 April, 1999)
  4. Asian Regional Street Vendors Workshop. (10th Feb to 13 Feb, 2002 Bodh Gaya & Patna)
  5. Life with dignity for the homeless in Delhi
  6. Report on International seminar on 'decent work conditions' 16, 17 & 18th November 2001' Evangelische Academic Mulheim a.d. Ruhr, Germany
  7. Final report on labour law and the Informal Economy, (Working group meeting) 15th & 16th June 2002.
  8. A report of workshop on legal training : 16th & 17th Oct 1999
  9. Recommendations of the Delhi workshop on street vendors.
  10. Note of the Task Force Meeting held on 19th Feb 2002, Circuit House, Ahemdabad
  11. Report of ILO/SNDT/SEWA/EFI-Round Table on street vendors at SNDT Women's University Committee, New Marine Lines, Mumbai on 18.11.02
  12. Report on –A pre-national convention meeting organized by NASVI on 13th & 14th March, 2000 at Ahmedabad
  13. A report on Western Regional Conference of National Allinance of Street Vendors on – 30.8.1999 at Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai
  14. Master Plan: Delhi Reference of Vendors as informal activities.
  15. Background paper on – National Policy on street vendors in India
  16. International Labour Conference (90th session, Geneva, June 2002) Committee on the informal economy. Conclusions concerning the informal economy
  17. A general note on street vendors
  18. A report on street vendors Bangalore City by-Ruth Anand
  19. Minutes of the pavement vendors workshop held at Chennai on 14th & 15th Nov. 2000
  20. Swarn Jayanti Shahari Rojagar Yojna
  21. Progress report of survey/study on vendors and hawkers of Bhuvanehwar Municipality corporation for the month of July 1999
  22. The vendors and hawkers of Katihar (A report)
  23. The condition of street vendors in Lucknow city
  24. Labour law & informal economy working group meeting (15 & 16th June 2002)
  25. Minutes of the second meeting of the task force and street vendors held on 19.02.2002 at Ahmedabad
  26. Voice of labour, Isue no-20, May 2002
  27. Minutes of the 2nd meeting of the Drafting Committee of the National Policy  for street vendors (Date 9th May 2002) Venue: Hudco Board Room, New Delhi
  28. Life reality-Rural Women Vendors and Hawkers, Rangariddy  dist, Andhra Pradesh Survey report Aug 1998
  29. Self Employed Women in less developed countries
  30. Report back from the Wiego plicy dialogue (Feb 1999)
  31. Report of National Workshop on Legal Status of Street Vendors in India (Sept 26, 1998)
  32. School of planning and architecture (Proposal on Hawkers study)
  33. Informal Sector- Dr. Rajen Mehrotra
  34. 25 years of SEWA Movement (19772-1997)
  35. Workshop on basic requirements for the street vendors. Khagaria, 18.4.99
  36. The hawkers, vendos, rickshaw pullers and roadside mechanics (freedom of earning livelihood ) Bill 2001
  37. Street Food Vending in Guwahati-problems and prospects-Mini Bhattacharya Thakur
  38. If textiles could speak ….(A story of street vendors in Delhi)-Adithi Shrinkhala
  39. Organisating street vendors in India- a note
  40. D.R. Zilla Goodangau & Bedi Vyparigala Sahakari Sangaha (R) Mangalore
  41. Organising vendors-The SEWA experience
  42. Report-One day consultation NASVI in Bangalore city, organized by Singamma Srinivasan Foundation at NLSIU 17th July, 1999
  43. NASVI report (Bhubaneshwar)
  44. A peoples plan for Delhi (1999)
  45. Nagpur Municipal Corporation Nagpur "Hawkers zones & non-hawking zone scheme' for the city of Nagpur, Maharashtra, Brief report April 2001
  46. A country paper on legal status of street vendors in India-Rani D. Advani
  47. Legal status of street vendors
  48. Report on a seven day visit to Cochin made in early Februrary 1996 on behalf of the Delhi based Urban Poverty office (UPO) of the overseas development administration
  49. The World Bank operational Manual operational policies on Rehabilitation (June 22, 1999)
  50. National guidelines on street vendors and hawkers.
  51. Report of State Level workshop held in Lucknow on 5th August 2004

Reports on International Events 
  1. Report of Street Net International Launch
  2. Speech by Ethekwini Municipality Deputy Mayor Logie Naidoe at the opening dinner for Street Net Launch on Nov 12, 2002.
  3. Opening speech by Ela Bhatt at Street Net Launch
  4. Street Net Launch: List of participants
  5. Constitution of Street Net International (Street Net)
  6. Street Net Policy Resolution (Party Political Policy)
  7. Street Net Policy Resolution (class and gender organizational policy)
  8. Policy on sustainability and financial self-sufficiency
  9. Street Net International, Three Year Plan from 2003-3005
  10. Street Net Association, No. 1 Newsletter December 2000
  11. Report of visit to Bangkok, Thailand, 22-29 September 2000
  12. Report on the Panel Discussion during Urban 21 on 'Urban Policies and Street Vendors: A Dialogue between Municipal Authorities and Street Vendors from South Africa and India
  13. Narrative Report of the progress of the Street Net Association (1 Oct 1999-30 Sept 2000)
  14. Resolution on informal economy adopted during 90th Session of ILO in June 2002.

Research
  1. Research Proposal-Improving occupational health and safety of self employed food workers in Bangalore, India Prepared by-Smita Premchander, Thomas Robson & Gisele Yasmeen
  2. Release of the Census of Hawkers' and Vendors in Patna
  3. Progress report of the research/project about the street vendors-26.6.99
  4. Summary of the markets survey in Chennai City for National Alliance of Pavement Vendors during Nov-Dec 2001
  5. Census survey of Hawkers on BMC Lands (TISS, YUVA) A study conducted for Brihan Mumbai Municipal Corporation (March 1998)
  6. Stockbrokers turned Sandwich Vendors: The economic crisis and small-scale food retailing in Thland & the Philippines- Gisele Yasmeen (Dec 16,1999)
  7. Street Vendors (A case study of the Greater Guwahati Hawkers Association)
  8. NASVI Study-Socio economic conditions
  9. Socio-economic status of street vendors in Chennai City. Study conducted by – R. Shyamala
  10. Excerpts from study of research documents Hawkers & the Urban Information Sector: By Prof. Sharit Bhowmick, Head , Dept of Socilogy, Univ. of Mumbai
  11. Study of street hawkers/vendors in Bangalore City by-Mrs. Ruth Anand
  12. Details of street vendors & Hawkers in Hyderabad
  13. A study of Vijaywada Hawkers & Vendors for NASVI, Patna
  14. Workshop an urban poverty and casual work in South Asian Cities (Nov. 13 & 14, 1999) organized by – Paschim Bangal Itiyash Samsad in collaboration with the Netaji Institute for Asian studies under the sephis programme of the International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam
  15. The condition of street vendors of Lucknow City
  16. Questionnaire on Survey of vendors/hawkers.

DECLARATIONS
  1. Berlin Declaration on the urban future 6th July 2000
  2. The Bellagio International Declaration of street vendors.
  3. The Bangalore Declaration (Resolution of the meeting of National Alliance of Street Vendors, India held on 30th and 31st October, 1999, Bangalore
  4. Banagalore Ghoshana Patra (Hindi)

LEGAL (other than cases)

  1. Navi Mumbai Hawkers & Workers Union-Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation Commissioner order and affidavit in Mumbai High Court
  2. Navi Mumbai Hawkers & Workers Union, Bombay High Court Orders copy
  3. Draft scheme as prepared by he chairman of the committee framed by the committee (lying down guidelines regarding hawking in the city of Chennai pursuant to the order dated 10.1.2001 of the Hon'ble Madras High Court in N.W.P.No. 4578/93
  4. Uncorrected /Not for publication-5.8.88 Resolution demanding formulation of national policy for hawkers and vendors.
  5. Legal provisions with regard to the hawkers in the city of Ahmedabad
  6. Draft National policy for street vendors
  7. Bangalore Mahanagar Palika-Application for issue of Hawker's licence in the hawking zones identified by the Bangalore Mahanagar Palika at Bangalore in response to the orders of the Hon'ble High Court dated : 15.7.99 in W.P.No. 24343/95
  8. Policies for street vendors
  9. Resolutions passed at National Policy Workshop
  10. Tamil Nadu Government Gazette Chennai-April 28, 1999
  11. Tamill Nadu Mannual Workers' social security and welfare scheme, 2001
  12. The Welfare fund model of social seucirty for informal sector workers-The Kerala experience by-K.P.Kanan
  13. Karnataka Unorganised Workers Welfare Bill, 2000
  14. The Calcutta Gazette -19th Nov 1997
  15. Global Meetng of the generations (Jan 13, 1999) work & family:
  16. Self Employed Women in less developed countries.
  17. Agenda for meeting on practices legal strategies for street vendors (Mumbai, 20.12.98)

LEGAL (cases)
  1. Hawkers and vendors: A report compiled by-Joystana Balakrishna, Maithery, Nimisha Singh, Siddarth Narain, T.K.Naveen (NL SIU)
  2. Supreme Court of India [I.A. No. 139 In Civil appeal No. 560/98 Prem Shankar and Ors V/s N.D.M.C. & Anr.
  3. S.C. of India, I.A. No. 2 in WP (C) No.1030/86 Vijay Kumar and ors. V/s State of UP & Ors.
  4. In the S.C. of India, Civil original jurisdiction writ petition (C) No. 1030/1986 Vijay Kumar & Ors V/s State of U.P. & Ors V/s State of U.P. &Ors.
  5. Arun Kumar Mukherjee V/s State of Bihar
  6. In the H.C. Karnataka at Bangalore (9th June 2000) writ petition  nos. 15513-14/2000 Between-(1) The Karnataka Footpath Merchants Association ® Bangalore (2) V.P.Mustafa and The State of Karnataka
  7. C.J./AVSRJ 15th July, 1999-Order sheet
  8. A study on Supreme Court Cases on street hawkers
  9. In the H.C. of Judicature at Madras (20.9.2000) W.W.P.No. 22086 of 1999 in W.P. No. 4578 of 1993 commissioner corporation of Chenna, Chennai v/s Usman Road Petty shop traders Association
  10. In the H.C. of Judicature at Bombay (ordinary original civil jurisdiction) writ petition no. 2044 of 2000 Ashok P.Sahijwani & others v/s Brihan Mumbai Municipal Corporation & others.
  11. In the H.C. of Gujrat at Ahmedabad, order passed by the H.C. in case of – SEWA & another v/s Commissioner of police and Being miscellaneous criminal application n. 2875 of 1987 in Special  criminal application no. 1265 of 1987
  12. In the S.C. of India, civil original jurisdiction writ petition no. 89 of 1982 (5-9-84) SEWA & ors. V/s Municipal Corp. of Ahmedabad & Ors.
  13. In the H.C. Bombay (ordinary original jurisdiction) writ petition no. 2044 of 2000 Ashok P. Sahijwani & others V/s Brihan Mumbai Municipal Corporation & others
  14. In the S.C. of India (Civil appellate jurisdiction ) special leave petiton (c) no. 15257/87
  15. (20.12.96) Application for injunction filed in court on 5.12.96
  16. Municipal Corporation of Delhi (city zone) no. 1559/ADC/C2/PA/B4 (26.5.84) sub: production of documents in terms of the supreme court order dated (22.4.84)
  17. S.C.of India-Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation V/s Nawab Khan Gulab Khan
  18. Accompaniment to the August 1996 Agenda of the Corporation . Letter from the Commissioner N.O./MKT/384/C dated 25th March 1996. Sub: Preparing hawking & non-hawking zones in the limits of Greater Bombay for regulation & management of the hawkers as per the guidelines by Supreme Court.
  19. In the H.C. for the states of Punjab & Haryana at Chandigarh, Civil writ petition no. 17105/1996. (i) Subji Mandi (Sector -26) Rehri Farhi Ass., (ii) Sh.Chander Bhushan S/o Sh.Tilak Dhari V/D Chandigarh administration through advisor to Administratr  (ii) Dy. Commissioner, U.T.Chandigarh
  20. In the H.C. at Bombay, appellate side writ petition no. 5644 of 1997
  21. Writ petition no. 2224 of 1996 C.B.D. Belagur Hawkers & another v/s state of Maharashtra & others.
  22. In the H.C. at Bombay writ petition no. 2761 of 1996 C.B.D. Belapur hawkers union v/s state of Maharashtra & ors.
  23. In the H.C. of Karnataka at Bangalore (15.7.99) writ petition no. 24323/95 (GM) & connected matters
  24. Ahmedabad Municipal Corp. V/s Nawab Khan Gulab Khan
  25. Legal provision-Supreme Court Cases
  26. By the president of the Philippines, executive order no. 452, Providing for the guidelines that will ensure the security of registered vendor in the workplace
  27. S.C. of India (record of proceedings)- Petitions for special leave to appeal (civil) no. 14240-14241/2000 Maharashtra Ekta Hawkers Union and other v/s Municipal Corporation, Greater Mumbai and others.
  28. S.C. of India –Civil Appeal Nos 4156-4157 of 2002 Maharashtra Ekta Hawkers Union and other v/s Municipal Corporation, Greater Mumbai and others.
  29. In the hon'ble court of judicature at Allahabad sitting at Lucknow

 
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