As per Supreme Court guidelines, there is provision in the Municipal Corporation Act to issue license to a required number of hawkers in a city. There is also provision to specify different levels of hawking zones in the city and regulate the activity accordingly. Although the amount of such spaces and licenses specified is very less compared to the present number and requirement of vendors in the city. Moreover, AMC has not issued any license since 1960, making almost all the vendors illegal. Therefore the hawkers are subject to forceful removal by AMC from the streets.
It is also interesting to note that many of the upcoming urban plans have least consideration for the street hawkers. Those, which have, talk about inadequate relocation of street vendor in areas of less business potential. Although AMC is making policies for street hawkers but its long way till they are implemented.
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