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BMC chief orders footpath clearances under Mumbai’s Pedestrian First drive
Mumbai's municipal commissioner, Ashwini Bhide, has told civic officials to immediately clear unauthorised hawkers, encroachments and other obstructions from footpaths across the city, part of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation's Pedestrian First campaign,…
Mumbai's municipal commissioner, Ashwini Bhide, has told civic officials to immediately clear unauthorised hawkers, encroachments and other obstructions from footpaths across the city, part of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation's Pedestrian First campaign, the Free Press Journal reported. During an on-ground review on Thursday morning in the K West and P South wards, she visited Ram Ganesh Gadkari Road and Swami Vivekanand (SV) Road in Vile Parle West, prioritising the SV Road to Cooper Hospital route because of frequent movement there by patients, ambulances and college students. The campaign's first phase targets 320 kilometres of obstacle-free footpaths across Greater Mumbai, in K West ward, 27 of 355 roads, spanning 37.7 kilometres, have been identified for clearance. Bhide also directed officials to carry out improvement, beautification and safety work, and Joint Commissioner Dr Bhagyashree Kapse and other civic officials attended the inspection.
Indian Opinion Analysis
Prioritising the route to a hospital is a sensible, specific choice that the report documents clearly, and the kilometre and road-count figures give the campaign a concrete scope. What is missing is any account of what happens to the hawkers removed, whether they are relocated, and how the BMC will keep footpaths clear once the initial clearance is done. The campaign's real test is not the first sweep but whether the cleared 37.7 kilometres in K West stay clear when officials next inspect them.
Source: www.freepressjournal.in
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