Overview
- Commissioner Ashwini Bhide personally inspected footpaths across five South Mumbai wards and verified hawker licences to press for stricter on‑ground compliance.
- Bhide ordered a strict audit of licensed vending spaces and directed the Licensing Department to act against vendors operating beyond their allotted areas.
- G/South ward teams removed 14 unauthorised extensions, 77 hawker obstructions and nine food trucks from Worli‑Prabhadevi as part of targeted enforcement.
- The BMC says phase one targets 200 footpaths with work underway on 81, about 68 km cleared so far and 443 enforcement actions recorded.
- Officials were also told to improve footpath design, protect or remove unsafe trees scientifically, install CCTV and 'No Littering' signage at problem waste points to keep clearances durable.