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Write short note: Informal sector in the urban economy in India.

  • UPSC 2008
  • Industrialization and Urbanisation in India

The Indian city is built and serviced by workers it does not recognise. Sharit Bhowmik's review of street vending in Asia (2005) put vendors at roughly a crore in India, about two per cent of a metropolis's population, and the Annual Survey of Unincorporated Sector Enterprises 2025 counts some 3.68 crore unincorporated establishments in urban…

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  • What the city runs on
  • Subsidising the formal city
  • Space, governance and the right to the street
  • Conclusion

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