New Delhi, July 28 - Now street vendors will have a permanent space to sell their wares, Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit said here Tuesday.

'We have plans for providing the street vendors of the city with permanent platforms, proper roofs and water connections,' Dikshit said while addressing hundreds of street vendors who had come from all over the country to attend the National conference on Integrating Vendors in Urban India.

'One of the major problems faced by vendors today is of space. So it will take us some time to provide the entire population of street vendors with platforms but we are aiming to start with targeting a few of them first,' she added.

According to the National Association of Street Vendors in India (NASVI), an NGO working with the street vendors, India has about 10 million street vendors - of whom almost 300,000 live and work in the national capital.

On complaints that the vendors were unable to sell their products because of the massive construction work, including the Delhi Metro work, Dikshit said: 'The Delhi government will not let anybody lose their daily bread.