Every month, the corporation spends over Rs 42 lakh to pay the labourers it assigns to evict illegal hawkers from the streets, across 24 wards. These labourers confiscate the goods on sale, fine the hawkers, and return to report to the BMC.

Now you see it, now you don’t: MiD DAY had reported in July how the ‘no-hawking zone’ sign at Hill Road in Bandra is taken down by hawkers at around 4 pm every day and replaced in the night. File Pic