NE NEWS SERVICE
NEW DELHI, MAR 13
The commerce and industry ministry on Saturday said it has held a competition for designing new and cost-effective modern street vending carts to cope with the recent challenges emerging due to COVID-19.
As street vendors use conventional vending carts in the post-COVID-19 era, the requirements from a cart have evolved in terms of packaging of goods, display, billing, hygiene, foldability, compactness, mobility, accessories like a dustbin, provision for shade, lighting, power supply, it said.
The National Institute of Design (NID) students in Ahmedabad, Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Haryana, and Madhya Pradesh took part in the competition.
“The objective of the competition was to design a new and cost-effective solution for a modern vending cart to cope with the recent challenges emerging due to COVID-19,” it said.