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Kolkata: Mayor Firhad Hakim said on Monday that the thirty new stalls to be handed over to the hawkers in Gariahat are ready. "There were some objections regarding the size of the stalls, following which we have made some alterations. Now the stalls are uniform and the hawkers can come and take their stalls whenever they wish," Hakim told reporters after holding a meeting with the hawkers whose stalls were damaged in a massive fire at Gariahat on January 20. Some of the hawkers selling garments claimed that the size of the stalls will not enable them to properly display the garments. Hakim has instructed the Central Store to make one lakh stalls which will be given to hawkers doing their business in other parts of the city..