Rajya Sabha passes street vendors protection bill

The Rajya Sabha Wednesday passed four bills, including the street vendors protection bill, without debate following a broad consensus in the house over their passage.

The bills passed were the Street Vendors (Protection of Livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending) Bill, 2013, the Governors (Emoluments, Allowances and Privileges) Amendment Bill, 2013, the Rani Lakshmi Bai Central Agricultural University Bill, 2012 and the National Institutes of Technology, Science Education and Research (Amendment) Bill, 2013.

All four bills have already been passed by the Lok Sabha.