Detailed components of the CII Plan comprised

Phase 1
  • Identification of locations across India
  • Identification of Implementing Agencies
  • Identification of Surveyors by the Implementing Agencies
  • Development of Survey Questionnaire
  • Sensitisation of the Surveyors regarding the Questionnaire and Survey
  • Baseline Survey by the Surveyors for the profiling of Target Vendors
  • Development of Project Logo
  • Identity Cards of the Vendors
  • Data Consolidation and Report preparation
  • Development of Hygienic cart design
  • Development of cart prototypes
  • Project Launch Ceremony

Phase 2
  • Based on Survey identification of Training Needs for Vendors
  • Development of Training Modules and Manual on Hygienic Practices
  • Identification of Trainers
  • Development and Manufacturing of Hygienically Designed and Constructed Food Vending Carts
  • Training of Trainers and Assessors
  • Training of Vendors by Trained Persons
  • Implementation of hygienic practices by the Vendors
  • Identification of Health Checks and Health Insurance Companies
  • Health Checks and Health Insurance of the Vendors
  • Development of Assessment and Certification Schemes
  • Assessment and Certification of Vendors
  • Monitoring and Surveillance for sustenance
  • Reward and recognition scheme

A food vending cart design incorporating food safety features was also prepared by CII with the help of the students of Indira Gandhi Institute of Technology, Delhi and Mr. Ram Mohan, Consultant, CII and presented to the Ministry of Food Processing Industries.

In the several subsequent meetings held between MoFPI and CII, the plan underwent further refinements and 5 other organisations ( VOICE, AIIHPH, CAG, FRESH and Sulabh International) were inducted to supplement the project implementation of the project which needed huge resources.

On 26 July, 2006 Mr Subodh Kant Sahai, Honb'le Minister of Food Processing Industries, Govt. of India, at the CII Seminar on Packaging, New Delhi declared that Govt. was "Planning to start a campaign across 15 cities to modify the street food business and to motivate vendors to have a hygienic approach to selling their products, where vendors would be provided with cubicles through bank tie-ups under the initiative, to be launched with industry body CII."

This Scheme developed by the Ministry of Food Processing Industries is aimed at laying down standards, quality upgradation and capacity building of street food vendors in 50 cities in the country in the first phase. It is proposed to introduce 1,000 modern food carts in each identified city leading to up-gradation of at least 50,000 food-vending units in the country during the 11th Five Year Plan.

It also envisages capacity building activities which include training the street food vendors to learn and adopt hygienic and safe food handling practices amongst the street food vendors and formation of viable micro finance linkages and regulatory mechanisms in association with local authorities. Bank financing of the carts through micro-finance linkages would also be taken up by the Project Management Agencies. Assessment of the health insurance needs of the street food vendors would also be undertaken by these Project Management Agencies. Standards will be developed for food safety and certification and accreditation mechanism put in place. These Project Management Agencies would be non-government organizations with strong capacities to develop training manuals and also train the vendors and for follow-up action on the process.

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