Andheri to get maximum hawking spots

As per the list prepared by the Removal of Encroachment department of Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), several areas in Andheri are set to get hawking spots.

According to officials from the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), K East ward (Andheri and Vile Parle) will get the maximum number of hawking pitches. "The K East ward will get around 8,529 pitches followed by F South with 5,588 pitches," said a BMC official. He added that P North will get around 4,824 pitches.

Around 89,000 hawkers out of the city's 99,435 hawkers who were surveyed in 2014 by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) will get designated hawking spots in the city in the next couple of months.

The civic body has already put up around 24,000 pitches for objections and suggestions from citizens while another list of around 65,000 hawking pitches is also ready. These hawking pitches are spread across all wards in the city.

In its crackdown on illegal hawkers over the past two months, the BMC evicted over 22,000 hawkers from across railway stations, foot-overbridges and skywalks following the fatal stampede at Elphinstone Road station.