The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is finalising steps to form a Town Vending Committee, which will henceforth be the single point authority on granting licenses to vendors and hawkers across the city. Letters have already gone out to the city traffic police department, local residents associations and hawkers associations to nominate members for the committee. The BMC hopes to get cracking with the committee in place, by the end of the year.

Hill Road in Bandra has illegal vendors openly hawking their wares within a few metres of city top cop Satyapal Singh’s bungalow. File Photo