Problems of women street vendors in west siang district of Arunachal Pradesh

A person who offers goods or services for sale to the public without having a permanently built structure is called as ‘Street Vendor’. They sell their products in a temporary static structure or mobile stall often head loaded. They operate business moving from one place to another place carrying their wares on push carts or on cycles or baskets on their heads, or could sell their wares in moving buses. Women occupy a strategic position in street vending business especially in West Siang District of Arunachal Pradesh. They have been making a very estimable service to the society. However, they have been facing multitudes of hitches. Lack of finance, seasonality of business, family responsibility, inadequacy of space, lack of transportations & communications facilities, lack of marketing skill, lack of knowledge to standardize products, evictions issue etc are some of the overriding problems being faced by women street vendors in East Siang District of Arunachal Pradesh. With this background, the paper endeavors to examine present scenario of women street vendors in West Siang District. Further, it makes an attempt to identify problems of women street vendors of the study district.