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...from London to Shanghai, from Amsterdam to Tokyo - the greatest of cities all have their share of street hawkers. Unfortunately, there will always be some destined to street-side hawking & we cannot wish them away.

It's just that they fit in there easily & are never seen as intrusions or as obstacles due to wide pavements, adequate public spaces, etc. whilst we have scarce or no pavements & no open /public spaces - all have been usurped & taken away for cars & other motor vehicles.

The powers that be are now looking for sacrificial lambs to lay the blame upon instead of admitting that they have botched things up in the first place ! And helpless hawkers are an easy prey to them. Some market street sides must be allocated for hawking instead of filling them up to the edge with motor vehicles.

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Hi,

My views,

Yes it should be banned. But the drive should come every individual and a discipline not to encourage buying from the street hawker should be practised.

Imposing a ban on that or charging a fine will only encourage in politicising the issue. There will be hue and cry and media coverage of actually driving the real purpose of ban will supersede by discouraging the livelihood of poor people and all that. The TV9 channels and local channels, local newspapers will create a hype and the initiative taken will be foiled.

As long as there are buyers, selllers/street hawkers will crop at every corner.. Even in the compound wall of the house:-)

The BBMP will not make it effective, because if the hawkers bribe, they contiune to stay. The drive should come every individual and should be a family discipline. As it is said Charity begins at home. So start from the individual.

Any other views welcome

Regards

Nee_voice

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is another man's livelihood.

have some consideration folks. just bcoz  we are not able to systematically manage spaces, why step on somebody else's livelihood?

so what about the boards? boards also say no parking, dont honk, pay taxes, be good to your wife, use condoms, take tablets, go to school, do homework,  etc etc. how many people stick to those?

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IMHO street hawkers are not the prime culprits.  They are the usual excuse trotted out when pavements are not done properly (anyway they will be encroached).

Just call it "al fresco" and conjure up the street cafes of France and Belgium - no real difference.  Both encroach.

Bigger culprits are - construction debris and material, vehicle parking.  I often go early morning to the airport.  There are these two massive trucks unloading motorcycles to a showroom at the corner opposite the old Cauvery theatre on Ramana Maharshi Road.  Just a little ahead you will find taxis and cars parked on the pavement adjacent to a prominent software developer's office. Jayanagar 11th Main - lots of pavement taken by construction debris. 

Start with the bigger fish - nay- sharks.

Srivathsa

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 i feel that street hawking should be banned in residental areas

I feel the residents associations should be involved in making these decisions for their areas along with the BBMP. They could decide to allow hawking over the weekends or between specific times in the evening everyday in designated areas (typically around CA sites). Regardless, any street hawking or flea market needs to be followed up by extra and intensive cleaning efforts by the BBMP. 

In Sanjaynagar for example they have been moved from the street corners where they were causing traffic jams to a vacant site little further away. If they are given a consistent time slot and place, citizens will know which street to avoid driving on at what time and BBMP will know which days they need to put additional manpower and machines to clean.

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