A Study on the Impact of Pandemic on Street Food Vendors in Bangalore City

Abstract

This paper focuses on the impact of pandemic on street food vendors in Bangalore city, in order to understand the challenges faced by the street food vendors during the lock down, and to evaluate the progress of partial opening and post lock down period. The street vendors is a common sight across the country, these includes many but our study is limited to the tiffin centres, fruits and vegetables sellers, the famous chat shop across the road and the numerous juice/chai/coffee points. Spotted selling on the street corners, footpaths and local markets situated in East Bangalore region. In the Pandemic scenario when the whole world has to stay at home, these vendors on road are among the groups that are worst affected, the livelihood of the majority is critically hit; the impact of COVID-19 has been very harsh on street food vendors. Thus, our study concentrates in understanding the background of street vendors how they manage their livelihood during the lock down period by sustaining with this critical situation and what’s the response from customers post lock down.