Unlicensed fish vendors of Bellasis Bridge market in Mumbai Central have approached Minister of Port Development and Fisheries Nitesh Rane asking to be rehabilitated along with the licence-holders, while the century-old bridge gets reconstructed. According to the BMC records only seven of the 36 sellers have licences.  The minister has asked the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation to consider the demand on humanitarian grounds.

In the course of the reconstruction of the century-old Bellasis Bridge by the Western Railway, the widening of the bridge is taking over the space of the 50-year-old fish market on the western side. Under Clause 7.9 of the Development Control and Promotion Regulation (DPCR-2034), shopkeepers and tenants operating on land required by the railway or government are expected to be rehabilitated suitably before making way for public and semi-public projects.