mumbai the bmc plans to rope in technology to avoid the misuse of its hawking certificates it will employ an androidbased software to store all hawkers details to enable civic officials to match their records and ground reality in real time the civic body will soon float tenders to select a company to develop the software as well as one to weed out repeat applications the bmc received nearly 99000 applications for hawking certificates and officials said it will be difficult for them to identify repeat applications while they decided to scan and store the details of every application on computers they hope the new software will locate repeat applications and issue an alert we plan to prevent the misuse of hawking certificates using technology said b g pawar deputy municipal commissioner encroachment the bmc is concerned that people may try to misuse hawking certificates issued to them by giving the certificates to others to do business on their behalf moreover it fears some hawkers may try to exceed the time limit at places where the civic authority has decided to allow multiple hawkers at the same spot in different timeslots we will store hawker details in our system and link it using the software our officials can go anywhere and using the software check if the person hawking is the same to whom the certificate has been allotted or if the person is violating any rules we will take action against offenders and cancel certificates of repeat offenders said pawar an official said only a person who is the sole breadwinner in the family and does not have any other business establishment can apply for a hawking certificate the civic bodys hawking zone plan marks out 3727 streets across the city the western suburbs will have the most slots with 1646 streets chosen as hawker zones there will be 1339 such streets in the island city and 742 in the eastern suburbs it has marked out patches for hawkers on the selected streets and plans to accommodate around 90000 hawkers on the marked patches