Overview
- The A Ward team cleared footpaths and carriageways at Colaba Causeway in a coordinated operation led by senior BMC officials.
- The corporation says hawkers had choked road space and created safety risks for pedestrians and motorists on routes used by BEST buses.
- Wednesday’s sweep was the second such action in four months after a July removal of about 60 vendors, and officials say more drives will follow.
- Enforcement is constrained by court processes, with 83 hawkers licensed to operate and roughly 253 petitioners in the Supreme Court not being targeted.
- The push follows local pressure from former corporator Makarand Narwekar, while separate demolitions of more than 100 homes on collector land in Malwani drew criticism from MLA Aslam Shaikh.