3
Hawkers Associations in Mumbai
Bombay
Hawkers Union
204
Raja Ram Mohan Roy Path
Girgaum
Mumbai
400 004
Karmayogi:
Suresh Kapile (Leader)
Tel.
No.: 23855336
Email:
Website:
Notes:
Works with Hawkers from railway, footpath and Chowpathy - male
and female. It has 60, 000 members.
Feriwala
Vikas Mahasangh
C/o
YUVA
52/53,
Nare Park Grn
Mumbai
400012
Karmayogi:
Sandeep P. Yeole (Programme Co-ordinator)
Tel.
No: 4143498
Fax:
91 022 4135314
Email:
yuva@vsnl.com
Website:
Notes:
Works with All types of vendors. Active in 4 wards of Mumbai and
having 112 members.
Urban
Street Vendors Lok Seva Kendra
Maharashtra Street Vendors Welfare Association
Near
Andheri Railway Station
Andheri
West
Mumbai
400058
Karmayogi:
Shaikh
Pervez (president)
9821846140
(evening
Emails:
urbanvendors@yahoo.co.in
mumbaihawkers@rediffmail.com
Website
- www.freewebs.com/pervez
Profile:
www.karmayog.org/Urbanvendors
Notes
- “Improving the Quality of Life by Encouraging Self Employment
of Street Vendors among Unemployed Urban Poor for Poverty Alleviation.”
(Source:
http://www.streetnet.org.za/English/dabAsia05.html)
List of Other Hawker Unions and Membership
in Mumbai
1.
Chembur Hawkers Union-234
2.
Jai Bharat Hawkers Union - 353
3.
Mulund Hawkers Union - 409
4.
Nariman Point Hawkers Association - 147
5.
Parsi Bauti Hawkers Union - 24
6.
Republican Hawkers Union - 232
7.
South Bombay Hawkers Association - 967
(Source:
A Census Survey of Hawkes on Bombay on BMC Lands, 1998 by TISS)
2
NGOs working for hawkers in Mumbai
Centre
for Education and Documentation
3
Suleman Chambers
Behind
Regal Cinema
4 Battery Street
Colaba
Mumbai
400001
Karmayogi
: Mr. John D'Souza (Director)
Tel
No:
22020019
Email:
cedbom@doccentre.org
Profile:
www.karmayog.org/ced
Website
- www.doccentre.org
Notes
- To provide information to the middle levels of agents of social
change, particularly NGOs and Action Groups. Besides providing
development information to these middle levels, CED sees its institutional
role in the long term as developing and bringing into currency
open democratic information systems. It also has reading rooms
and libraries were students, journalists, other professionals,
and NGOS/activists predominate.
Citizens
Forum for the protection of public Spaces
3rd
Floor Cecil Court
Mahakavi
Bhushan Marg
Colaba
Mumbai
- 400001.
Karmayogi
: Ms. Neera Punj
Tel
No:
022- 22882018
Profile: www.karmayog.org/citispace
Website:cityspace@nagarallniance.org
Notes
- It is a forum that networks, more than 500 residents' associations,
community based organisations, NGOs, commercial establishments
and individuals in most of Mumbai's 24 Municipal wards. CitiSpace
functions with a Core Group of 9 people, which is co-ordinated
by a Convenor and Co-Convenor 'working' as full time, committed
professional volunteers
