Footpath are made for Hawker's

Footpath are made for pedestrians so they can avoid walking on road. The area of mumbai face the major problem of hawkers. The hawker question is central to the debates over public space in Mumbai. Since the late 1990s, elite NGOs and residents’ associations have been actively promoting, with some success, the idea that hawkers are to be blamed for many of the city’s problems. To them, hawkers are “a symbol of a metropolitan space gone out of control”. Hawkers use streets and footpaths, block traffic, depress real estate values and are, more generally, eyesores that prevent Mumbai from being a “world-class” city.

Many society as well as surrounding areas have raised their voice against these encroachments. The recently submitted a complaint about the encroachment to the BMC . Because of which we can see BMC is also struggling to remove those illegal hawkers from the roads and footpaths. But, because of interfere of political parties, hawkers are taking to much advantage. Political parties in the city have jumped for their support so that they can get elected by number of votes with the help of them.
By looking to this condition my opinion is that footpath are just build for hawkers to sale there product not for the man to walk.