India, Feb. 10 -- Following the Bombay high court hearing on February 7, the BMC is currently reviewing its hawker policy to include 77,000 hawkers, up from the previously eligible 32,415. In addition, the civic body plans to reassess 222 roads that were designated as hawking zones in 2017 by the Supreme Court, as they now interfere with ongoing infrastructure projects like the metro rail and road works.

The BMC also intends to deploy its own enforcement teams to remove hawkers within a 150-meter radius of all railway stations. "We will propose through our legal counsel to deploy station-wise staff from the license and encroachment removal department," said a senior civic official from the BMC's licence department. "That's one solution t...