 bill no lxxxv of 2006 the  hawker,  vendor,  rickshaw  puller  and  roadside mechanic  (freedom  to  earn  livelihood)  bill,  2006 a billto provide for the freedom of earning livelihood to hawkers, vendors, rickshaw pullers and roadside mechanics and for matters connected therewith and incidental theretobe it enacted by parliament in the fifty-seventh year of the republic of india as follows:—1  (1) this act may be called the hawker, vendor, rickshaw puller and roadside mechanic (freedom to earn livelihood) act, 2006short title, extent and commencement5(2) it extends to the whole of india(3) it shall come into force on such date as the central government may, by  notification in the official gazette, appointdefinition2 in this act, unless the context otherwise requires:—(a) "appropriate government" means in the case of a state, the government of the state and in all other cases, the central government;10(b) "hawker" means a person who sells household consumer items such as vegetables, fruits, clothes, food items, dry fruits, etc going from house to house and street to street hawking on cart, cycle carrying basket or by any other mode;(c) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this act; (d) "rickshaw puller" means a person who pulls a cycle rickshaw of any kind to earn his livelihood;5(e) "roadside mechanic" includes any person who repairs cycle, cycle rickshaw, scooter, motor cycle, car and other motorized vehicles, footwears, utensils and other wares by the roadside or under a tree without any permanent structure built at the work place;(f) "vendor" means a person who sells food items, fruits, vegetables and other small household items, from a stall or place in the open10complete freedom to earn livelihood3 notwithstanding anything contained in any other law for the time being in force thehawkers, rickshaw pullers, roadside mechanics, vendors, and persons carrying similar other vocations shall have complete freedom to earn their livelihood without hindrance from any authority whatsoever including those of police and local self government bodies15no authorityto impoundarticles, tools, etc4 notwithstanding anything contained in any other law for the time being in force, noauthority of the local self government such as, "municipality", municipal corporation, municipal council or by whatever name called shall impound the articles, tools, carts, cycle rickshaws, etc belonging to the hawkers, rickshaw pullers, roadside mechanics, vendors as the case may be5 for earning livelihood under the provisions of this act:—20certain conditions to be followed by hawkers etc(a) a hawker shall not hawk any article which is injurious to health and he shallnot obstruct any public place and the flow of traffic;(b) a rickshaw puller and roadside mechanic shall not obstruct the flow of traffic of vehicles or pedestrians as the case may be;(c) a vendor shall not sell anything which is injurious to health256 it shall be the duty of the appropriate government to ensure strict compliance of theprovisions of this act, in a manner as may be prescribedduty of appropriate government to ensure compliance7 the provisions of this act shall have effect notwithstanding anything inconsistenttherewith contained in any other law for the time being in forceover-riding effect of the act power to give direction308 the central government may give directions to any state government for the effectiveimplementation of the provisions of this act in the statepower to remove difficulties9 if any difficulty arises in giving effect to the provisions of this act, the centralgovernment may, by order published in the official gazette, make such provisions, not inconsistent with the provisions of this act, as may appear to be necessary for removing the difficulty35power to make rules10 the central government may, by notification in the official gazette, make rules forcarrying out the purposes of this act statement  of  objects  and  reasonsour country is facing a serious problem of the constantly increasing unemployment as a result of the population explosion number of unemployed persons is rapidly increasing it has become immensely difficult to get government jobs because of the policy of to  reduce staff in various government departments the public sector undertakings are adopting voluntary retirement schemes and are being disinvested for privatisation agriculture, which used to provide maximum employment is also facing economic recession due to unprofitable price structure and fall in the prices of agricultural products the private sector is making more and more use of computers in its work thus, employment is not increasing in proportion to the increasing populationself-employment therefor, seems to be the only solution to tackle unemployment but, it needs money which everybody does not have some citizens try to earn their livelihood by pulling rickshaws or hawking or vending articles or repairing motorized vehicles, bicycles, shoes, etc by the roadside, but most of them are intimidated by the officials of the local police or municipality either they have to bribe the police and or the officer of municipality or their articles and other items are taken away and confiscated thus, they have to live in an atmosphere of fear they can not earn their livelihood fearlessly since, the government is unable to provide employment to these poor people, they should not be deprived of the right to earn their livelihood it is, therefore, felt that these poor people should have full freedom to earn their livelihood and they should not be interfered in any way by police or local authorities in pursuing their professionhence this billjai  parkash  aggarwal memorandum  regarding  delegated  legislationclause 10 of the bill gives power to the central government to make rules for carrying out the purposes of this bill the rules will relate to matters of details only the delegation of legislative power is of normal character———— a billto provide for the freedom of earning livelihood to hawkers, vendors, rickshaw pullers and roadside mechanics and for matters connected therewith and incidental thereto————