Hawkers In Mumbai

Unauthorized hawkers have virtually taken over every street in the city leaving no place for pedestrians, the Bombay High Court has observed, asking why ordinary citizens should not get the treatment that only "VVIPs" seem to get.

The Bombay High Court on Monday asked the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) to ensure that the footpaths in the city are "actually walkable" for pedestrians and directed it to remove encroachments by unlicensed hawkers.

The GRP in Mumbai has invoked the stringent MCOCA against a millionaire hawker accused of extortion, his wife and six other associates, and attached many of his properties, a police official said on Sunday.

A 27-year-old hawker from Bandra in Mumbai was arrested on Saturday for allegedly making video calls and sending obscene messages to a journalist, the Malabar Hill police said.

Singapore-based Chan Hon Meng, better known as Hawker Chan, will bring his signature dish to Indian cities of Delhi, Hyderabad and Mumbai, at a major food carnival 'Zomaland' by Zomato.

The feud between the Raj Thackeray-led Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) and Mumbai Congress unit chief Sanjay Nirupam over the hawkers issue today took a violent turn after MNS workers allegedly vandalised the MRCC office in Mumbai.

Workers of the Congress party and the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) clashed at Dadar today morning over the issue of hawkers' eviction, police said. The clash broke out after the MNS workers disrupted the Feriwala Samman Morcha (Hawkers' Felicitation March) organised by the city unit of the Congress in support of the hawkers, police said

Thirty-six activists of the Raj Thackeray led Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) were today arrested by police for allegedly beating up and driving away hawkers from near the railway stations in Mumbai and Thane.

In a bid to prevent incidents like the Elphinstone station stampede that claimed 23 lives, the railway administration has undertaken a drive to evict illegal hawkers from the entry and exit points of the station as well as from the foot overbridges to ease commuter movement.

In an incident that has gone viral on the social media, BJP legislator Ameet Satam is seen physically assaulting local hawkers and verbally abusing police officials present there.

The issue of eviction of hawkers in Mumbai has brought the in-fighting in the city unit of Congress to the fore with AICC General Secretary Gurudas Kamat admonishing Mumbai Congress chief Sanjay Nirupam publicly.

Residents of Pali Hill, one of Mumbai's most affluent neighbourhoods, held a silent protest on Sunday, against a proposal by the municipal body to allow hawkers to set up shop on footpaths in the area. The protests join the chorus against the Mumbai Development Plan 2034, which is drawing flak on a number of fronts.

Beggars and hawkers in Mumbai's local trains have shelled out Rs 70 lakh in the form of fines in 2014. The Railway Police claims it has collected fines of up to Rs 1.89 crore in 2014, of which Rs 70 lakh came from beggars and hawkers.

Over the last week, an otherwise routine central Mumbai suburb has taken to assuming a hushed, haunted character. At Indira Nagar, Station Road, Kanjurmarg (East), things start to hush up with the onset of twilight. The number of pedestrians thins down. There are no cries from playing children. Residents do not hang around in groups by the street c...

Paying heed to the call by the civic body, more than 10,000 hawkers have so far applied for getting registered. The Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC) had, last month, invited application from the hawkers for registration under the hawkers' policy.The civic corporation will soon begin the scrutiny of the documents. "We have not yet started the proce...

Unauthorized hawkers have virtually taken over every street in the city leaving no place for pedestrians, the Bombay High Court has observed, asking why ordinary citizens should not get the treatment that only "VVIPs" seem to get.

The Bombay High Court on Monday asked the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) to ensure that the footpaths in the city are "actually walkable" for pedestrians and directed it to remove encroachments by unlicensed hawkers.

The GRP in Mumbai has invoked the stringent MCOCA against a millionaire hawker accused of extortion, his wife and six other associates, and attached many of his properties, a police official said on Sunday.

A 27-year-old hawker from Bandra in Mumbai was arrested on Saturday for allegedly making video calls and sending obscene messages to a journalist, the Malabar Hill police said.

Singapore-based Chan Hon Meng, better known as Hawker Chan, will bring his signature dish to Indian cities of Delhi, Hyderabad and Mumbai, at a major food carnival 'Zomaland' by Zomato.

The feud between the Raj Thackeray-led Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) and Mumbai Congress unit chief Sanjay Nirupam over the hawkers issue today took a violent turn after MNS workers allegedly vandalised the MRCC office in Mumbai.

Workers of the Congress party and the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) clashed at Dadar today morning over the issue of hawkers' eviction, police said. The clash broke out after the MNS workers disrupted the Feriwala Samman Morcha (Hawkers' Felicitation March) organised by the city unit of the Congress in support of the hawkers, police said

Thirty-six activists of the Raj Thackeray led Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) were today arrested by police for allegedly beating up and driving away hawkers from near the railway stations in Mumbai and Thane.

In a bid to prevent incidents like the Elphinstone station stampede that claimed 23 lives, the railway administration has undertaken a drive to evict illegal hawkers from the entry and exit points of the station as well as from the foot overbridges to ease commuter movement.

In an incident that has gone viral on the social media, BJP legislator Ameet Satam is seen physically assaulting local hawkers and verbally abusing police officials present there.

The issue of eviction of hawkers in Mumbai has brought the in-fighting in the city unit of Congress to the fore with AICC General Secretary Gurudas Kamat admonishing Mumbai Congress chief Sanjay Nirupam publicly.

Residents of Pali Hill, one of Mumbai's most affluent neighbourhoods, held a silent protest on Sunday, against a proposal by the municipal body to allow hawkers to set up shop on footpaths in the area. The protests join the chorus against the Mumbai Development Plan 2034, which is drawing flak on a number of fronts.

Beggars and hawkers in Mumbai's local trains have shelled out Rs 70 lakh in the form of fines in 2014. The Railway Police claims it has collected fines of up to Rs 1.89 crore in 2014, of which Rs 70 lakh came from beggars and hawkers.

Over the last week, an otherwise routine central Mumbai suburb has taken to assuming a hushed, haunted character. At Indira Nagar, Station Road, Kanjurmarg (East), things start to hush up with the onset of twilight. The number of pedestrians thins down. There are no cries from playing children. Residents do not hang around in groups by the street c...

Paying heed to the call by the civic body, more than 10,000 hawkers have so far applied for getting registered. The Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC) had, last month, invited application from the hawkers for registration under the hawkers' policy.The civic corporation will soon begin the scrutiny of the documents. "We have not yet started the proce...