 It was impossible for people to walk on the roads, forget about footpaths.The advocate general informed the high court that the state government had drawn out a plan regarding the hawkers.The highlights of the plan were earmarking of hawker free zone, creating some hawking zones, setting time limits for hawking, banning erection of permanent structures, keeping two-thirds of pavement free of hawkers, replacing polythene sheets with colourful umbrellas, removing of hawkers from of crossings, and issuing licences to existing hawkers only.