mumbai with the shiv sena miffed over the bmc circular to stop distribution of food trucks municipal commissioner iqbal chahal has called a meeting next week to discuss and formulate a comprehensive policy for not just their distribution but also eligibility location and the cost involved last week in a setback to a chunk of shiv sena corporators the bmc had stayed distribution of food trucks as freebies by corporators ahead of next years bmc elections the bmcs planning department recently issued a circular directing all wards to not distribute any food trucks bought from the bmc funds citing lack of a comprehensive policy for them in the city the bmc chief has called for a meeting on october 20 of officials from all the concerned departments to discuss the food truck policy the previously made draft policy prepared by the health department will also be discussed said a senior civic officialthe circular stated the food trucks are part of a new citywide policy this policy deals with the health department removal of encroachment department roads department traffic police and mumbai police so it is needed to make a comprehensive policy by taking inputs from all these departments this will help in making this policy if a meeting is held at the level of the municipal commissioner along with these departments after taking views of all these departments a draft policy will be placed before the civic group leaders and general body the planning departments circular stated all ward officers are hereby requested that till a detailed food truck policy is approved and rolled out no decision should be taken about the distribution of food trucks at the ward levelit stated sena corporator yashwant jadhav has already bought 30 food trucks for rs 5 crore for his constituency in byculla jadhav has said food trucks were distributed since 2019 and termed the circular as bad in law and arbitrary in the past two years food trucks were distributed as per policy the circular is violating the rights of corporators they should have allowed distribution of the already ordered food trucks and implemented the circular from next year the bjp has demanded till a policy is rolled out the trucks already distributed should be taken back by the bmc since they are now being run illegally there is a lot of ambiguity on whether the policy is for food trucks or vegetable vans we also dont know what the eligibility criteria is to get these trucks the policy must answer all the questions thirty trucks are already distributed in byculla by shiv sena the bmc should take them back till a policy is approved bjp corporator vinod mishra said