Policy but no practice: Women fish vendors of India’s Tuticorin district take to the streets demanding the implementation of a national policy on urban street vendors

Theresita, Juliet (2009) Policy but no practice: Women fish vendors of India’s Tuticorin district take to the streets demanding the implementation of a national policy on urban street vendors. Yemaya (30). p. 11. ISSN 0973-1156

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Abstract

On 20th January 2009, over one thousand women headload fish vendors from Tuticorin city and nearby villages in the coastal state of Tamil Nadu in south India, staged a demonstration demanding that the National Policy for Urban Street Vendors be implemented in the state of Tamil Nadu. The National Policy for Urban Street Vendors, launched on 20 January 2004 by the Government of India.

Item Type:	Articles
Class Number:	920.YEM268
Keywords:	Yemaya, ICSF, India, Tamil Nadu, Women, Policy, Fish Vendors, Urban Vendors, Loans, Infrastructure, Discrimination, Small-scale Fisheries
Subjects:	Gender in Fisheries and Aquaculture
Depositing User:	Jeeva ICSF Rajan
Date Deposited:	23 Sep 2021 07:15
Last Modified:	28 Mar 2022 09:18
URI:	http://icsfarchives.net/id/eprint/480

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