In a swift and focussed operation, civic officials cleaned up all the hawker stalls on South Mada Street, from the Chitrakulam – Gandhi statue end to Sangeetha restaurent end on July 22 morning.
Dozens of GCC staff and Urbaser Sumeet workers cleared all the hawker stalls which are mostly not operation in the mornings. But as word went around, hawkers challenged the workers and some women held on to their possessions and screamed no end.
Policemen and women were at hand to ensure there was no law and order problem. They were called in to handle people who refused to let the clean-up carry on.
This is the n-th time that such a cleanup has been executed. The hawkers returns to the spots in 24 hours and are strongly patronised by their local customers.
But there are Mylaporeans who demand that the hawkers be restricted to a space and not have stalls on this busy road.
