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Time of India

Hawker pushback drive to begin anew after Eid

1 2 Kolkata: A Town-Vending Committee meeting held at the Kolkata Municipal Corporation headquarters on Wednesday decided to conduct drives to keep carriageways free in and around New Market after Eid. A fortnight ago, TVC members advocated a continuous drive on Bertram Street, Humayun Place, Lindsay Street, and Hogg Street to clear hawkers from carriageways. Accordingly, cops from New Market and KMC officials conducted a joint drive and drove hawkers away from these areas. The TVC meeting took stock of the growing hawker encroachment menace in the New Market area. The representatives of hawker unions expressed apprehensions that local hawker unions in the New Market zone were clashing with each other to gain control over the carriageways. The scene was particularly bad in Bertram Street, Hogg Street, and Humayun Place, they said. Trouble erupted in the New Market area on Feb 15 as hawkers clashed on Bertram Street over the right to occupy the carriageway. According to a KMC official, a stretch of Bertram Street reserved for parking cars but usurped by hawkers for years was recently cleared by a joint KMC-cop drive. "We must keep up the pressure or else the parking space is likely to be encroached again," said a KMC official. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Viva a melhor experiência de estudo no exterior (Inscreva-se agora) Study Abroad Saiba Mais Undo Speaking about hawker 'invasion' in the New Market area, the general-secretary of Hawker Sangram Committee, Saktiman Ghosh, wondered how the hawkers were allowed to gobble up carriageways. "We used to move court to protect the livelihood of hawkers in the past. Now we are moving court to implement hawking rules that ban hawking on carriageways. I fail to understand why cops can't control the situation in New Market even after a special drive," said Ghosh. Ghosh argued if hawkers are allowed to encroach on the carriageways in the New Market area, hawkers in Gariahat, Hatibagan, Chandni Chowk, and other hawking zones would do the same. MMiC and TVC co-chairman, Debasish Kumar, said, "We can't sit idle. Timely action will be taken" .