The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) wants to come good on its promise of no hawkers around railway stations and crowded places in the city. And to that end, Municipal Commissioner Ajoy Mehta has appointed a 2011 batch IAS officer, Nidhi Choudhari, as the deputy municipal commissioner (DMC) for removal of encroachment, a task that was earlier assigned to non-IAS officers.

Going against usual practice, BMC has made an IAS officer in-charge of removal of encroachment department. Representational pic