A study on the street vendors of kathmandu municipality

the Metropolitan City Police are the major threat they face. But one of the key informants from among the customers highlighted that street vendors always caused obstruction for pedestrians and vehicles. It is evident then that street vendors need to be properly managed.The study showed that 90 per cent of the male street vendors and only 55 per cent of the female street vendors are literate. Thus, there is a great difference in the literacy rate between male and female street vendors. Women street vendors have not yet been able to grasp the opportunity for education due to different social circumstances and lack of awareness. Both women and men street vendors are not aware of computers and other business and marketing-related technologies. They possess little information about new trends of marketing and selling and also possess little information about the quality or the uses of the goods they sell. They also do not have sufficient time and money to find out about the technology. In this area, women street vendors are far behind the men. As businesses in the informal sector and especially street vending are becoming competitive day by day, there is need for street vendors to be aware of user-friendly technology and product knowledge. Technocrats, especially women technocrats, should be engaged to train women street vendors in terms of product knowledge and technology in order to sharpen the competitive edge of street vendors, especially women street vendors