Street Vendors Act, 2014 is an Act
of the Parliament of India
enacted to regulate street vendors
in public areas and protect their rights.
It was introduced in the Lok Sabha
on 6 September 2012 by then
Union Minister of Housing and
Urban Poverty Alleviation, Kumari Selja.

The Street Vendors Act, 2014 is a pioneering initiative to protect the livelihood rights and social security of urban street vendors in the country and thereby aid poverty alleviation efforts of the Government. The Act aims at fostering a congenial environment for the urban street vendors to carry out their activities without harassment from any quarter. It also provides for regulation of urban street vending and is uniformly and mandatorily applicable to all the States and Union Territories.