The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) plans to revamp the city’s most popular shopping destination, Fashion Street in South Bombay, into a well-organised hawkers’ plaza.
With this, the Mumbai’s oldest and low-cost shopping hub on M G Road, Fashion Street, is poised for transformation along the lines of Orchard Road, Singapore’s prominent fashion district.
This place is a hook for youngsters who shop through piles of clothes, shoes and fashion accessories for some of the choicest picks.
The 384 licenced hawkers carrying out businesses on this street will be given uniformly designed stalls, so that ample walking space can be created on the footpath for shoppers.
The civic body also plans to fix signages and fancy streetlights along the stretch. Moreover, the BMC will ensure that all roads and footpaths approaching the streets are beautified and concretised.
“Fashion Street needs improvement to attract overseas tourists and other die-hard shopaholics. The project will take three months to take off,” official added.
The apparel on display will be distinctly classified along gender lines, with a separate section for children and a zone for footwear. It will be help pedestrians and shopkeepers to not jostle for space, as they do now.
The senior civic official added that BMC will permit ramp shows. In an upgrade for the street, small brands can organise fashion shows. The civic body will also train the vendors with the correct etiquette to interface with customers.
In the first stage, the civic body will carry out a survey, followed by a design model and then present the same to higher authorities for final approval.
Stall Owners’ Association have urged to include the other licenced vendors who sell on pavement into this systematic market arrangement.
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