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KOLKATA: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation will remove hawkers selling their wares blocking different New Market and SreeRam Arcade gates. This assurance was given to a delegation of traders from Joint Traders Federation (JTF) representing New Market, SreeRam Arcade and some other markets in the zone. ‘’We have been asking superintendents of all KMC markets to remove electrical wires hanging dangerously from the roof as part of a fire prevention system,” said a KMC market department official. "A section of hawkers illegally occupying some entry points to the market would be removed. Ahmed took note of the traders’ grievances and assured them that necessary steps would be taken to give them relief.During the day member, mayor-in-council overseeing the KMC market department Amiruddin Bobby led a team of state fire services, CESC and KMC market department officials to Entally Market to survey the market’s fire prevention system..