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Exclusive | Mumbai: Uncertainty looms over hawkers’ representative elections
Updated On: 29 August, 2024 06:48 AM IST | Mumbai | Prajakta Kasale
As BMC holds poll today, SC order directs it to withhold results
Unions say there are more than three lakh hawkers across the city. Representation pic/Nimesh Dave
After eight years of delay, even as the BMC is all set to hold elections to select hawkers’ representatives in the Town Vending Committee (TVC), a cloud of uncertainty is looming over the process. The Supreme Court on Wednesday, in its ruling on a petition filed by Maharashtra Ekta Hawkers Union, directed that the election process shall go on. However, the result of the election shall not be declared without the permission of the court.
Parliament passed the Street Vendors (Protection of Livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending) Act in 2014, following a Supreme Court order, and the TVC plays an important role as it is responsible for the allotment of licences to hawkers, pitches and overall regulation in the city. The TVC structure consists of one central town vending committee and seven zonal committees. Each committee comprises 20 members, with 12 being nominated and eight being representatives of hawkers. These representatives are elected by hawkers via the election process.
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