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Abstract
Street Vendors play a significant role in fulfilling the demands of urban dwellers in Madurai – the second largest city of Tamil Nadu. This paper attempts to gain an insight into the businesses of street vendors as well as their impacts on our society. A large number of people are directly and indirectly engaged in this profession and are contributing to the economy to some extent. Because of the street vendors, some unfavorable effects are also visible, such as, lack of formalization and weak management system, which create problems in urban areas by producing street garbage and gathering crowd on the footpath. By the implementation of proper public management system, street vendors would become a role model for urban dwellers of Madurai city.