Kathmandu street vendors lament lack of options two years since ban

City is cleaner and better, but its benefits are not reaching the economically disadvantaged residents relying on street vending for livelihood, they say.

Every day, fifty-seven-year old Menuka Basnet sets up her pushcart on the streets and back alleys of Old Baneshwar to sell grilled corn. She is a widow, mother to three children, and the sole earner in her family. She says she earns about Rs300-400 a day, which is hardly enough, but she has been doing this for over a decade now, as she sees no other way to make a living.