🚧 e-Vyapari is a proposal under active field development — nothing described here is a live government system yet.
eV e-Vyapari Suggest an Improvement
🍅 Fruits & Vegetables🫖 Tea & Snacks👕 Clothing👞 Footwear🧵 Tailoring & Repair🍛 Ready-to-eat Food📍 GPS Vending Spot🤝 Vendor-to-Vendor Sourcing🎁 Surplus Donation📢 Local Alerts📝 Grievance Tracking🚨 One-tap Emergency Help
e-Vyapari · A Digital Helper, Not a Replacement

One app for street vendors to find their spot, their supplies,
their support — and be heard.

e-Vyapari is a proposed mobile platform that helps street vendors manage their whole working life — a recognised selling spot, nearby supplies, government schemes, surplus donation, timely alerts, a way to raise a grievance, and one-tap emergency help — built in Gujarati, Hindi, and English for people picking up a smartphone for the very first time.

📍 Pilot City: Vadodara, Gujarat 🌐 3 Languages + Voice Guidance 🆓 Free for Every Vendor
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Roadside maize vendor in India Fruit seller in Charminar, Hyderabad Indian tea vendor waiting for customers
Why This Exists

Street vendors keep our cities running. They deserve a helper that keeps up with them.

Millions of vendors across India sell affordable fruit, food, clothing, and services from carts and stalls. Even where laws and loan schemes already exist to protect and support them, day-to-day problems remain: scattered information, unclear selling spots, surprise disruptions, wasted unsold stock, and no easy way to raise a fair complaint. e-Vyapari is a proposal — built by Janseva Manav Kalyan Foundation — to bring all of this together into one simple, voice-guided app that sits alongside local authorities, never in place of them.

01

Scattered Information

Scheme details, notices, and rules are spread across offices and word of mouth, hard for a working vendor to track.

02

Location Uncertainty

A vendor's income depends on a predictable spot — losing it without warning can cost a whole day's earnings.

03

Wasted Surplus Stock

Unsold food and goods are often thrown away at day's end instead of reaching someone who needs them.

04

No Advance Warning

Road closures, events, and civic works often surprise vendors, sometimes leading to avoidable fines.

05

Hard-to-Raise Complaints

An unfair fine or harassment has no easy, trackable way to be formally reported and followed up.

06

Limited Tech Comfort

Many vendors are new to smartphones — apps built for confident, English-typing users leave them out.

These are patterns seen in field visits and public research — not assumptions about every vendor. Structured field research in Vadodara is the first step, to confirm which problems matter most before any feature is built at scale.
Who It's Built For

Real working lives shaped this design

e-Vyapari is designed around vendors first — and around the local authority, charity, and lending partners who work alongside them.

Woman street vendor in India
Fruit & Vegetable Cart

Ramilaben, 42

Sole earner for two school-going kids. Comfortable with WhatsApp voice notes, not with typed English forms.

"I don't want to lose my spot, and I don't want my leftover vegetables to just rot every evening."
Indian mobile street vendor
Mobile Snack Cart

Suresh Bhai, 29

Moves between three or four spots weekly depending on foot traffic. Reads with difficulty; uses his phone mainly for calls and payments.

"Twice I set up near a ground and had to move because of some event I didn't know about — I lost the whole evening."
Indian street vendor at a stall
Tailoring & Alteration Stall

Farida Bibi, 51

Same fixed spot for five-plus years. Relies on her son for anything beyond a phone call.

"I've sat at this spot for years — I just want someone to recognise that, and tell me simply if I qualify for any help."
Inside the App

Seven sections, one vendor journey

After a simple, consent-based sign-up and identity check, every vendor lands on a home screen built around seven everyday needs.

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Home & Nearby Vendors

Find and connect with nearby vendors for small daily supplies — packaging, water, produce — sorted by distance and category.

B2B sourcing, not a public shop
🏛️

Government Schemes

A single, plain-language window into micro-credit and welfare schemes vendors may qualify for, with official links and a visible "last checked" date.

Links out — never processes applications
🎁

Donate Food or Stock

List surplus food or goods; verified charities nearby are alerted instantly and can accept, decline, or arrange pickup.

Safety-checked before listing
📢

Alerts

Clearly labelled Official Alerts about road closures or events, kept separate from general platform Advisories — never used to justify enforcement.

Never an unlabelled instruction
📝

Grievance

A structured, trackable way to raise an unfair fine, harassment, or bribe-demand complaint — routed to the right department, with a reference number.

e-Vyapari never decides the outcome
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Emergency Call

One giant, high-contrast button for India's 112 emergency number and other verified local helplines — no searching, no typing.

Works with zero data entry
🗂️

History

A combined, vendor-owned record of applications, approvals, grievances, and donations — exportable to support a scheme or bank conversation.

Belongs to the vendor
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GPS Vending Location

Apply for a recognised selling spot using phone GPS and a photo — reviewed transparently, with a personal reference number (VUIN) on approval.

Never replaces an official certificate
Everyday Life, Everyday Work

The people e-Vyapari is designed for

Street vendor in Hyderabad, India Street vendor selling fruits in a market Cotton candy street vendor in Chennai Tender coconut vendor in India Vegetable vendor in the streets of Hyderabad Tea stall vendor in Uttarakhand, India Roadside maize vendor in India Fruit seller in Charminar, Hyderabad
How It Works

From first tap to a recognised spot

Choose Your Language & Log In

Pick Gujarati, Hindi, or English. Log in with just a mobile number and a one-time code — no password to remember.

Give Consent & Verify Identity

A plain-language explanation comes first. Identity checking only happens through an officially approved, consent-based method — never without it.

Set Up Your Business Profile

Pick your category with large picture icons — fruits & vegetables, tea & snacks, clothing, repair, and more. Minimal typing throughout.

Apply for a Vending Spot

Tap "Use My Current Location," upload a photo, and submit — sent straight to the local authority's review queue with full transparency.

Track, Get Approved, Receive Your VUIN

Watch status move from Submitted to Under Review to Decision. On approval, receive a personal reference number that works alongside — never replaces — an official certificate.

Use the App, Every Day

Source supplies, check schemes, donate surplus, stay alert, raise a grievance, or reach emergency help — all from one home screen.

What This Project Hopes to Achieve

Real, measurable benefit — not just downloads

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Less uncertainty over a selling spot

GPS and photo evidence replace informal, undocumented arrangements with a traceable process.

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Fewer surprise disruptions

Advance, clearly-labelled alerts about roadworks or events reduce avoidable fines and lost income.

✓
Less wasted food and stock

Surplus is matched to verified charities instead of being thrown away at day's end.

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Easier access to government schemes

Curated, regularly checked scheme information linked straight to official application portals.

✓
Time and money saved on small sourcing

Nearby vendor-to-vendor discovery cuts down time spent hunting for everyday supplies.

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A trackable way to raise a fair complaint

Grievances get a reference number and a visible status — received, under review, resolved.

✓
Fast, reliable emergency access

One tap reaches India's 112 number and other verified helplines — no searching required.

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A personal, portable track record

A combined history of approvals, complaints, and donations a vendor can show a bank or an official.

Vadodara Pilot — Nine Stages

Field-tested before it's scaled up

The first and most important goal is simply to test whether the e-Vyapari idea works — through field research and a small, careful pilot — before any thought of expanding further.

1. Field Research

Understand the local vending landscape and existing processes.

2. Vendor Interviews

Talk to vendors across categories and comfort levels with technology.

3. Prototype Testing

Test a clickable prototype for ease of use, in Gujarati first.

4. Small Working Version

Build registration, profile, location application, schemes, and emergency access.

5. Authority Workflow Pilot

Pilot the location-application process with a defined group of vendors.

6. Charity Donation Pilot

Onboard a few verified charities and test one or two donation categories.

7. Impact Measurement

Compare figures from the start and end of the pilot.

8. Funding Model Testing

Test willingness of institutional partners to fund or partner.

9. Scale-Up Decision

Decide, based on evidence, whether and how to grow beyond the pilot.

Every feature that touches an official approval, a certificate, or a scheme payout stays switched off until the concerned local authority and vending committee formally sign off on it in writing. e-Vyapari is designed to work alongside these bodies — never in place of them.