With the BMC finally holding a town vending committee meeting on May 3 to discuss the hawking policy, after cancelling it twice at the last minute, hawker unions are not on the same page as the civic body. While one union will highlight their issues at the Central government level, another union will submit their objections to the BMC. The policy attempts to provide designated spaces to legal hawkers.

The Azad Hawkers Union is planning to meet the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs in Delhi to bring attention to the apathy of the Mumbai civic body and police with regard to issuing vending licences despite an order from the Supreme Court and assurance from the Centre.