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The Bombay High Court connected Wednesday (May 6) granted 5 weeks to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) to contented QR code-generated individuality cards to 99,435 hawkers who were surveyed successful May 2014.
The tribunal said immoderate hawker beyond this list, including nationals of Bangladesh, tin beryllium evicted. It besides directed the BMC to acceptable up a mechanics for radical to record complaints done WhatsApp without revealing the complainant’s identity.
The tribunal was proceeding a substance related to thoroughfare vending successful Mumbai. In a judgement delivered connected March 23, the High Court had directed the BMC and the Mumbai Police to verify the individuality of each hawkers connected the city’s streets and cheque for nationals of Bangladesh oregon different radical who person moved from different countries. The authorities were ordered to instrumentality enactment against specified persons if found.
A Division Bench of Justice Ajay Gadkari and Justice Kamal Khata said issuance of the ID cards volition not make immoderate equity successful favour of the 99,435 hawkers. The cards are meant lone to place hawkers who are not permitted. The seat besides directed Government Pleader Anjali Helekar to find a proviso successful instrumentality to enactment against immoderate idiosyncratic who creates a mendacious ID.
The BMC had issued much than 1 lakh applications erstwhile the Street Vendors (Protection of Livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending) Act, 2014 was enforced. At that time, 99,435 hawkers were surveyed and were protected by the court. These 99,435 bash not see the licensed hawkers; that task volition beryllium handled by the Town Vending Committee erstwhile it is constituted.
During the hearing, the BMC, done elder counsel Anil Singh and advocator Chaitanya Chavan, sought 2 months to people and contented the ID cards. The seat responded that 2 months was excessively long. “We cannot licence the continuation of activities that are not permitted for much than 2 months,” the tribunal said. “The lone solution is recognition of the hawkers arsenic to who are among the database of 99,435. Anyone beyond that volition person to beryllium removed. You indispensable person the volition and desire. You tin see bringing successful a non-government entity to implicit this task.”
Mr. Singh pointed retired that bringing successful a non-government entity would necessitate pursuing a tender process, which would origin further delay. The Bench past asked Helekar astir the police’s relation successful taking enactment against hawkers not permitted. She said constabulary are patrolling the sites and that the ID cards would marque it easier for the constabulary to instrumentality action.
Justice Gadkari said the tribunal cannot repetition the aforesaid absorption for years without compliance. He told the State authorities that it could supply funds to the BMC for printing the ID cards. “The State of Maharashtra has truthful overmuch wealth that it spends crores of rupees connected galore schemes, giving funds to individuals for free. Can it not usage immoderate funds for the payment of the communal man?” the justice said.
The Bench adjourned the proceeding to June 10. By that date, the BMC is required to contented each ID cards and place hawkers beyond the database of 99,435.
