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A brief background of the cities has been discussed including the demographic profile, sociocultural and economic features as well as government responses towards the problems of the street vendors in each of these cities. The government’s initiatives on financial accessibility of street vendors have been mainly highlighted in this chapter, and the information has been presented here based on various secondary reports and expert interviews with different government officials, namely, civic authorities such as CEOs and Mayors of municipal corporations; trade union members; and others.
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Information on Jaipur city has been retrieved from http://www.jaipurmc.org/PDF/02-Chapter2.pdf; accessed in July 2011.
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The information on Kanpur has been depicted from http://kanpurnagar.nic.in; accessed in June 2011.
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Information on Lucknow has been gathered from http://lucknow.me/geography.html; accessed in May 2011.
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The information on Bhopal has been depicted from http://www.bhopalmunicipal.com; accessed in June 2011.
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Information on Patna has been gathered from https://www.patnanagarnigam.org/ContentPages/PMC_Home.aspx and http://www.nidan.in/; accessed in May 2011.
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TOI stands for Times of India.
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The Information on Kolkata city has been retrieved from https://www.kmcgov.in/KMCPortal/jsp/KolkataStatistics.jsp; accessed in June 2011.
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The information of Guwahati has been collected from http://gmcportal.in:8080/GMCPortal, http://www.docstoc.com/docs/8713630/Guwahati-The-City, and www.assamtribune.com; accessed in June 2011.
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The information on Hyderabad has been collected from http://www.ghmc.gov.in; accessed in May 2011.
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Information on Bengaluru has been collected from http://www.bbmp.gov.in; accessed in July 2011.
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Information on Vijaywada has been retrieved from http://www.ourvmc.org/jnnurm/ch2.pdf; accessed in June 2011.
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The information on Mumbai has been gathered from http://planningcommission.nic.in/reports/sereport/ser/stdy_empgen.pdf; accessed in June 2011.
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Information on Ahmedabad City has been gathered from http://www.amcgujarat.com/amc_web/ahd/ah_city.aspx, http://www.egovamc.com, and http://www.infoahmedabad.com; accessed in May 2011.
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Bhowmik, S.K., Saha, D. (2013). The Field: Profile of the Cities. In: Financial Inclusion of the Marginalised. India Studies in Business and Economics. Springer, India. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-1506-6_2
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