The street vendors have been registered under the Street Vendors Act 2014. | Photo Credit: Special ArangementWorking among construction workers, women street vendors and nine identified slums, an NGO created awareness of their rights and entitlements and got them tangible benefits. It helped them get identity cards under Andhra Pradesh Building and Other Construction Workers’ Welfare Board and 1,250 workers got benefits under various schemes to them. A mutually aided women's co-operative thrift and credit society was formed for the street vendors at Anjaneyanagar at Pednurti with a rotation fund of ?3 lakh. Bapuji Rural Enlightenment and Development Society(BREDS) working in a three-year project from 2015, covered 3,000 construction workers, 1,300 female and 1,700 male, 400 women street vendors and nine slums, all accounting for 4,900 families.
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