Vendors and right to the streets

Pragya is a Senior Resident Fellow working in the area of Legal Design and Regulation at Vidhi. Prior to joining Vidhi, she has worked as a Legal Assistant at the Law and Legislative Department of the Government of Chhattisgarh where her main work pertained to regulatory compliance and drafting of State rules and statutes. She also worked on policy research, inter-departmental disputes and government contracts. Pragya has also worked as an editor at The Feminist Times, as a law coach at Lex Templum and as an intern at India Institute, a think tank based in Delhi. She graduated from Hidayatullah Law University, Raipur in 2018 with a B.A., LL.B. (Hons.) and finished her LL.M. in Constitutional Law from National Law University Odisha in 2020. Her areas of interest are sex-offender registry and its civil regulations, privacy law, therapeutic jurisprudence, post-colonial intersectional feminist studies and trade law. She is an avid reader and has keen interest in dystopian and fantasy literature.

Lakshita is a Senior Resident Fellow in the Legal Design and Regulation team at Vidhi, New Delhi. Prior to joining Vidhi, Lakshita graduated with a B.A. LLB Hons. from Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law, Patiala in 2020 and thereafter completed the Master of Laws (LLM) course from the University of Cambridge in 2021. At Vidhi, she has been providing research and drafting assistance to Government Departments and Ministries for legislative and policy reform. Her research interests lie in working at the interface of administrative and constitutional law with a human rights perspective with the objective of ensuring access to justice for all.