Street vendors hailing from urban and semi urban peripheral are increasingly subjected to various new dimensions of challenges, business constraints and ever changing needs in shifting market paradigm. Being major urban livelihood source for especially for poor and vulnerable sections of society, it is growing at faster pace in tandem with growth trajectory of urban nodes. The growing organized retail industries and some physical infrastructural development projects have posed a certain degree of threats to them in form of cut throat competition, glut of low cost substitutes and pressures on efficiency up-gradation. Here the main research objective is to find out the problems of street vendors during Covid 19 and needs for street vendors operating in Erode. In addition, there is no proper attention, which is given to street vending by policy makers, decision makers and planners. At present, there is an even strong negative measure and views prevailing against street vending both by the local government and by the formal business operators, street vendors are continuously increased in Erode district. Nowadays street vendors are facing many problems in the course of running their activities. Therefore, the focus of this study is to assess the problems of street vendors during Covid 19 in Erode District.

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Keywords: Street Vendors, Business Constraints, Livelihood, Street Vending, Market Paradigm.