Bombay High Court suggests a mobile vending concept to regulate street vending, ensuring pedestrian safety in Mumbai. The court emphasizes the need to respect constitutional rights, control unauthorized vendors, and maintain a database of street vending licenses for monitoring and control.
A division bench of Justices Gautam S Patel and Kamal R Khata passed an order while hearing a plea by the owners of a shop situated on the ground floor of a housing society building on Hill road.
Hawkers, buses, autos and toto drivers have taken over the main entrance of Howrah Maidan Metro station in Kolkata. The area, which was supposed to be a swanky Metro station, is now cluttered with temporary bus stands and hawkers. The East-West Metro project, including the under-river tunnels, has been completed, but the station entrance remains blocked. The local authorities have promised to address the issue and remove the hawkers before the Metro starts operations.
KUALA LUMPUR: Local authorities nationwide revoked 26,108 business licences from 2022 up to Feb 15 this year, says Housing and Local Government Minister Nga Kor Ming.
A yellow line drawn along S N Banerjee Road has attracted new hawkers to set up shop on stretches that were unoccupied. Pedestrians fear that legitimization of hawking on the vacant spots will add to their woes.
A survey conducted by Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) and Town Vending Committee (TVC) reveals that there are 59,000 vendors in the major hawking hubs of the city. Read more to know the details.
MUMBAI: Plagued by hawkers who return hours after they are evicted, poorly lit roads, randomly parked vehicles that block access to buildings, loud no.
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The installation of barricades along the Atta market in Sector 27 to deter hawkers from encroaching on the road and footpaths and reduce snarls on the choked stretch has borne little fruit. Hawkers have been allotted stalls at the vending zone near Botanical Garden metro station but are yet to leave the market, which is opposite Sector 18. Now, the makeshift vends have spread beyond the barricades to the road, adding to the traffic chaos.