To the relief of shopkeepers, the Supreme Court on Friday ordered a stay on BMC action against establishments for not putting up Marathi signboards. The stay is valid till December 18 when the next hearing is scheduled. 

As per data from the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation, around 20 per cent of the shops are yet to display signboards in Marathi or Devanagari script. In the past 26 days, civic officials visited over 27,000 shops, which is around 5 per cent of the total number of shops in the city, and served notices to around 5,000 of them.