Yesterday , Bombay Municipal Corporation workers pulled
down a thatched roof over the cart of a roadside hawker Ramji , selling tea / biscuits
/ vada-pav , on a footpath outside my
house
Background :
> Footpath
is for pedestrians to walk on ; not for Ramji to sell tea !
> Ramji did
not have a " Hawking License "
> As of
today , some 30,000 + hawkers are " licensed " to hawk
> Under
pressure from High Courts , BMC is in the process of taking a
"
Census " of all hawkers in Mumbai , in order to legalize another
90,000 hawkers , to be accommodated in specified hawking
zones
> It is my
belief that Mumbai has over 300,000 hawkers now and that
this figure
is growing by 10,000 every year
> Citizens of most residential localities do not
want " Hawking Zones "
in their
localities !
> But almost
all citizens continue to patronize nearby hawkers , whether
licensed or
not and whether in prescribed " Hawking Zones " or not !
> Hawkers need
to ply their trade where people live - and therefore need
to live
where people live - not 20 Km away !
> Illegal /
Un-licensed hawkers are the main source of " Hafta " for the
local
policemen
> So that
demolished shed , will come up once again tomorrow morning !
> Most
hawkers in any given locality are under the " protection " of local
Corporators ,
who give " advance notice " of impending demolition !
> If India as a whole , needs to create 12
million jobs every year , then
most likely
, Mumbai , with its population of 16 million people , needs to
create at least 300,000 jobs per year !
> But "
Manufacturing Establishments " are leaving Mumbai , since it has
become a
" High Wage Island " , rendering products manufactured here
un-competitive . Hence no blue collar jobs in Mumbai anymore !
> As far as
" Service Sector " is concerned , it is fast giving up its "
Across
the Counter
" service nature and morphing into internet / mobile app
based "
New E-Com Economy " , needing few new hires !
> Apparently
, the only " Economic Sector " that is creating new jobs and is
" Self
Renewing " is that of the " Self Employed " hawkers in Mumbai !
I suppose it
is the same story , in all metros
It is also
the economic sector which needs no more than a few thousands
of Rupees to
create one job , as against a requirement of Rs 5 lakhs in
MSME sector
and Rs 5 Crores in large organized sector
!
> And ,
retired hawkers do not ask for any pension , despite having one
rank , for
their entire working lives !
I foresee a not too distant day , when all footpaths
everywhere , are taken over by the hawkers ( where these are not already taken
over , that is ! )
For providing livelihood to a section of society ( viz:
hawkers ) , another section of the society ( viz: pedestrians ) will need to
put up with some
inconvenience !
Unless some people ( who have jobs / incomes ) want their
convenience to
take precedence over the livelihood of Ramji and don't
care that his 2 children starve to death !
In any case , in India , every single day , some 4,383
children ( under age of 5 ) die of starvation .
Another 2 , won't change the " Statistics " much !
But , if the already employed have a better solution , let
them propose it !
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hemen parekh
10 July 2015
hcp@RecruitGuru.com
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