Sangeeta Singh

Biography

Sangeeta Singh

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sangeetaleo@hotmail.com
Date of birth-18-02-1973
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Sangeeta Singh advocates the cause of Street Vendors and along with the rights of Women and Children. She heads the Street Food Program of National Association of Street Vendors of India (NASVI). She consolidated the Street Food Festival initiated by NASVI and curates it yearly as a mega event .with her effort street food program has become signature event of the national capital.Her vision to mainstream street food vendors and create an ecosystem which works for them has started bearing fruits . Advocacy being her strength she was actively involved in the campaign for law for street vendors and is facilitating its implementation wherever needed. she heads many forums and platforms of unorganized workers ,women and children. .She played key role in mainstreaming street food vendors into ministry of tourism and other departments. Protecting livelihood of street food vendors ,preserving food culture and promoting gastronomy tourism by engaging street food vendors is her mission. National Street food festival ,an advocacy event curated by her is being implemented by other government agencies in different part of the country besides by Housing and Urban Development department ,Govt. Of India.
She was semifinalist in Masterpreneur of the year- a program of CNBC Aawaz 2014.She is developing a social enterprise of street food vendors. She was given “Bihar samman”award by Nitish kumar,Chief Minister of Bihar for her work on livelihood of street food vendors .She was awarded safe and nutritious food ambassador award by food safety and standard authority of India in 2017.She was invited as key speaker to UNWTO program held in Bangkok to highlight the importance of street food vendors in gastronomy tourism .She has been panelist and speaker at many national and international platforms like New York University ,WSFC