With the high court directive limiting the number of the stalls during the Bandra fair to 165, the civic body is planning which stalls should be allowed to conduct business.
It will hold auctions for these 165 stalls on Wednesday and whoever bids the highest gets the stall. The Bandra
fair begins on September 12.
Two delegations of candle makers, who regularly put up stalls at the fair, led by Bharatiya Janata Party corporator Ashish Shelar and Congress corporators Asif Zakaria and Rehbar Khan met Additional Municipal Commissioner Manisha Mhaiskar asking her to give more than 50 per cent stalls to those selling religious items such as candles, rosary beads and flowers.
“Two kinds of stalls are generally put up. Those selling religious things and others which have games or sell food items. We will decide how to go about the auction process,” said Mhaiskar.
Bandra residents had dragged the municipal corporation to court on August 17 over the hawker menace during the eight-day Bandra fair at Mount Mary church.
The petition filed by 250 residents sought that the corporation should act against illegal hawkers, who encroach upon the entire area around Mount Mary church during the fair.
Mhaiskar will discuss the issue with the Municipal Commissioner Swadheen Kshatriya on Tuesday.