Besides making streets less crowded, traffic smooth and pedestrians' life easy, action on illegal hawkers is giving something more to the civic body - adding to its kitty, courtesy the auctioning of the seized goods. As per the reply to an RTI application, from January 2010 to March 2017, it has seized items, including fruits, vada pav, Chinese stalls, handcarts, tables and cylinders worth Rs 459.98 crore but managed to earn only Rs 22.28 crore via auctions.

As per data, civic body has taken action on 14.86 lakh hawkers in the last seven years. File pic