It appears to be a challenging task for the BMC to implement the hawker policy. Even after more than eight years, the BMC is yet to implement the policy. Now, the Hawkers Union threatens to approach the court because the BMC has published a draft list of 32,407 eligible hawkers to vote for their representatives in the town vending committee election.

The Congress party has demanded that the hawker policy should be implemented after the civic election. Dayashankar Singh, president of the Azad Hawkers Union, criticises the list, stating that BMC has distributed loans of Rs 10,000 to more than 1 lakh hawkers but now claims there are only 32,407 eligible ones. “Are only 32 thousand hawkers sufficient for a city which has such a large population? If BMC does not rethink the numbers, we don’t have a choice but approach the court,” Singh said.