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Designing new Street Vending Carts to cope with the recent challenges due to COVID-19

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..... Designing new Street Vending Carts to cope with the recent challenges due to COVID-19
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Dated:- 13-3-2021

Ministry of Commerce and Industry, in collaboration with National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, has organised a competition for Covid19 Street Vending Cart Designfor designing a new and cost effective cart models. The NIDs students in Ahmedabad, Andhra Prad .....

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..... esh, Assam, Haryana and Madhya Pradeshtook part in it from 22.12.2020 to 05.02.2021. National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad coordinated with other NIDs and conducted a Design Hackathon for designing new carts to cope with the recent challenges emerging due to COVID-19.After selection, it is also proposed to offer these models in mass scale to street vendors. The Current Status of categories of .....

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..... Challenge conducted by NIDs is given below: Details of events Ahmedabad Andhra Pradesh Assam Haryana Madhya Pradesh No. of Teams/ Students participated & fees(if any) 27 Teams participated 19 Teams (Team of 3 students) 7 Teams (Team of 3 students) 13 teams registered 6 (Top three teams will be selected) Design Shortlisted along with categories details Street Vending Cart for Food B .....

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..... usiness: Winner SVANNA 1st Runner-up ANSHU TOPPO 2nd Runner-up (3 designs) THELA OCKTA DE CART Street Vending Cart for Fruit/ Vegetables (3) Winner: MANDI 1st Runner-up: CHARIOT 2nd Runner-up: APNA CART Street Vending Cart for General Merchandise (1) 1st Runner-up ANYWHERE STORE TEAM MUDU ShruchiJaiswal, 4th year, TAD TushaarSonkar, 4th year, CD JananiSridharan, 4th year, ID .....

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..... TEAM JOGAD GADI BratadeepSahoo, 3rd year, CD TejasPawar, 3rd year, ID Shubham Sawant, 3rd year, ID TEAM TRIZBUZZ Himanshu Sharma, 2nd year, ID IshikaArora, 2nd year, CD AshwinMajli, 2nd year, ID THELA GAADI-A dream cart for the street retail vending entrepreneur KART BUOY-A fast food cart keeping in mind the current pandemic situation EXTRA-Innovative multipurpose food cart design CAR .....

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..... TWALK-A cart with a modern form and an innovating stacking and storage system. To be shortlisted by the Jury panel To be shortlisted by the Jury panel Prize Award Winner INR 40,000/- 1st Runner up INR 25000/- 2nd Runner up INR 15,000 Top 3 teams received INR 21,000 cash prize 15000/- Cash Prize to each of the winning teams. To be declared To be declared The objective of the competit .....

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..... ion 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. The cart should also provide better business prospects in the post COVID-19 world. Design should also consider issues and opportunities for street vendors so that they can sell better with improved efficiency and pride. It should address the needs of all segmen .....

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..... ts of society. As Street vendor uses conventional vending carts but, 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 dustbin, seat etc., provision for shade, lighting, power supply etc. Indian Street Vendors are going through a tough phase due to COVID -19 scenario. .....

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..... Loss ofcustomers and demand, restriction of mobility, hygiene issues, and competitive challenges aredominant in the present time. Post COVID-19 time, there are new emerging scenarios in street vending. There lies an opportunity for street vendors to innovate their businesses and attract customersadapting to these changes.These Street carts could become a turning point for product, storage, mobilit .....

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..... y and branding pointof view.
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