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15 July 2020A Monthly Update on Our CCS Initiatives
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LAUNCH OF THE THIRD EDITION OFTHE PROGRESS REPORT ONIMPLEMENTING THE STREET VENDORSACT
According to the findings of our Progress Report onImplementing the Street Vendors Act, six years afterthe passing of the Street Vendors Act 2014, ten stateshave yet to demarcate vending zones and four stateshave no Town Vending Committees with vendorrepresentation.
In its third edition this year, the report was launched on
10th June 2020. We hosted a panel discussion on‘Atmanirbharta : Protecting Vendor Livelihoods in thewake of COVID-19’, to mark the launch. Moderated byBhuvana Anand, Director - Research, Centre for CivilSociety (CCS) the panellists included Indira Unninayar,Advocate, Supreme Court and Delhi High Court; ManojMehra, Street Vendor and General Secretary - Delhi,National Hawkers Federation; and Prashant Narang,
Associate Director - Research, CCS. The panellists discussed the challenges and limitations of implementing the StreetVendors Act and highlighted the way forward to ensure vendors’ atmanirbharta.
Following the successful release of our Progress Report 2020, we also hosted two online panel discussions highlightingthe ground realities faced by street vendors in Rajasthan and Maharashtra.
CONVERSATIONS IN POLICY
In June, we conducted two eBaithaks - our monthly conversations inpolicy with Dr Parth J Shah, President, CCS on ‘Private CompetingCurrencies in a Post-Crisis World’ and with Rahul Basu, Director-Research, Goa Foundation on ‘Paradigm Shift in Mineral WealthManagement’. Parth J Shah explored Austrian economist F.A. Hayek’sargument that private currencies, determined by competing businessesinstead of being government monopolies, are a better alternativemonetary system for the economy.
Globally, mineral wealth has been associated with a variety of pooroutcomes – corruption, crony capitalism, autocracies, environmentaldamage, human rights violations etc. Rahul Basu, in his session,discussed a new paradigm in managing mineral wealth that is fair,constitutional, and results in better economic outcomes.
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Chandrasekara Balakrishnan, Indian Liberal Fellow, CCS,brings to life the story of Professor S. Ambirajan, aprolific writer, scholar and economist. S. Ambirajanchampioned individual freedom, private propertyrights, and economic freedom. He consistentlyemphasised the role of a limited government andthriving private sector to achieve economicdevelopment and growth. How prophetic he was toenvision the maladies of the first 40 years of Indian
economy! Sadly his scholarly works have found more takers abroad than in his own country.
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