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BANKING TRADE AND COMMERCE
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HAWKERS
Hawkers: Hawkers are the counterparts of pedlars who
carry on their business in the urban area. Hawking is prevalent in almost all the municipal and tahsil towns in the district
though in varying degrees. The hawkers move from place to place hawking their merchandise. They carry their goods either on their persons or on handcarts. Many of them use bicycles as well.
Hawkers sell a variety of goods, such as, vegetables and fruits, sprouted grains, toys, sweets, confectionery, cutlery, oil, ghee, kerosene, coconuts bread and biscuits, eggs, ice-creams,sharabats, earthenware, stationery, cloth, and ready-made clothes.
Hawkers generally buy their goods from wholesalers and retailers in towns. Akola, Karanja, Washim, Telhara, Akot, Balapur, Malegaon, Patur and Mangrulpir municipalities in the district have introduced the system of licensing of hawkers.
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