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Street vendors are identified as self-employed workers in informal sector are coming from the marginalized section of the society. The paper tries to highlight the working life of street vendors in Malda Town. The study has been conducted to analyze the socio-economic conditions of street vendors in Malda Town of Malda District in the state of West Bengal. The working life of street vendors is explained in terms of their financial conditions, their working hours, and the issue of valuable services, legal status and contribution to the urban economy. The study is based on primary data collected from field survey. 120 street vendors have been randomly selected from six important business centre like Rathbari More near Netaji market, Post Office More near Chittaranjan market, Malda Rly Station, Malda District Hospital and Medical College, Mukdampur market and Sukanta more for the study. The study shows that vendors have been able to increase their financial empowerment regarding income, expenditure, savings and access of credits from different financial institutions. Although, vending is one of the sensitive jobs, vendors always be active and alert with opened eye, ear and mouth and they have extremely a long working hours. It has been further found that vendors are more united to establish their rights at workplace. Now they are facing a lot of problems of opposition from Public, Municipal authority and policemen, but their service contribution to the people in urban economy cannot be ignored.