KOLKATA: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC)wants to enforce “No mask, no business” rule in all major hawking zones due to a surge in Covid cases in different parts of the city.
After holding an urgent meeting with cops and the civic officials, the chairman of the KMC Board of Administrators (BoA), Firhad Hakim, on Tuesday said that cops have been asked to keep tabs on major hawking zones and that if any hawker is found without a mask, he will be barred from selling wares to people.
“We want all hawkers to wear masks if they want to sell their wares. We have already taken up the matter with Kolkata Police and asked them to help the civic body enforce Covid protocols,” Hakim said. The hawkers of New Market, Gariahat and Hatibagan are the prime targets of a joint vigil by KMC and Kolkata Police, sources said.
The civic brass has warned the vegetable and fish vendors at the KMC’s major markets against non-compliance with wearing masks.
