1 wp1560-97 dmt IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION WRIT PETITION NO. 1560 OF 1997 Mira Bhayandar Phal-Bhajji Vikreta Sangh. ... Petitioner. V/s. Chief Officer, Mira Bhayandar Council & Ors. ... Respondents. Smt. Neeta Karnik for petitioner. Mr. R.S. Apte, Sr. Adv., for respondent no. 1. Mr. V.S. Gokhale, AGP for respondent nos. 3 & 4. CORAM : P.B.MAJMUDAR & A.A.SAYED, JJ. DATE : 16th MARCH, 2011 P.C. This petition is filed by the Mira Bhayandar Phal Bhaaji Vikreja Sangh. The petition is directed against the Mira Bhayandar Municipal Council and others. The grievance of the petitioner in the petition is that the activities of collecting market fees is given to private contractors by public auction which policy is challenged in this petition. The petition is filed as far back as in 1997 and subsequently the area in question is converted into Mira Bhayandar Municipal Corporation. 2. The learned counsel for the petitioner submits that a National Policy on Urban Street Vendors has been framed and that the grievance of the petitioner 2 wp1560-97 regarding collection of fees from hawkers, etc., is to be regularised by the same. She further submits that the Government of Maharashtra on 02.03.2009 has appointed a state level Advisory Committee to advice the State Government regarding measures to be adopted for implemention of the National Policy on Street Vendors in the Urban Areas of the State. 3. Since this petition is filed against the Municipal Council which is not in existence, the prayer made in the petition has now become infructuous. In so far as the Mira Bhayandar Municipal Corporation is concerned, the said Corporation will have to formulate a policy regarding hawkers. If that is to be done, it may be done by the Municipal Corporation as per the rules and regulations framed by the State of Maharashtra, Urban Development Department, Hawkers Profession (Regulation) Model Bye-Laws, 2009 dated 02.03.2009. The Corporation may expedite the matter of fixing the fees for hawkers straightaway as the Municipal Council is not now in existence and the area is converted into Corporation. 4. Subject to what is stated above, the petition is dismissed. Rule stands discharged. (A.A.SAYED, J.) (P.B.MAJMUDAR, J.)