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Arrangements are being made astatine the recently designated vending portion connected Old Madurai Road successful Tiruchi, wherever vendors operating successful the Teppakulam country person been shifted. They are expected to resume trading soon.
Following an bid from the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court, the areas surrounding the Rockfort Teppakulam person been declared no-vending zones, wherever thoroughfare vending and commercialized activities are prohibited. The determination aims to heighten pedestrian question and alleviate postulation congestion successful the area.
On November 13, the roadside vendors astir Teppakulam were shifted to 21,860 sq. ft. of Corporation-owned onshore adjacent Holy Cross College connected Old Madurai Road. About 155 vendors person since occupied the site, each allotted a 6 ft. x 8 ft. abstraction to proceed their business. The monthly rent for the allotted abstraction is yet to beryllium finalised by the Corporation.
The civic assemblage has made basal arrangements astatine the caller location, including levelling the ground, installing thoroughfare lights, and ensuring h2o proviso to guarantee that each registered vendors tin resume concern operations without disruption. Vendors, meanwhile, person begun installing metallic frames to acceptable up tent-like structures to support their goods from the elements. Each structure is expected to outgo astir ₹6,000.
However, the traders said they person been facing difficulties successful completing the installation work, which has delayed the commencement of business.
“It has been 10 days since the vendors were relocated, yet they person not been capable to statesman business. The Corporation should person made indispensable arrangements anterior to shifting them. The enactment volition instrumentality much than a week to implicit and this is affecting the livelihood of the vendors,” said A. Ansardeen, a subordinate of the Town Vending Committee.
He said councillor C. Aravindan had assured them that abstracted toilets for men and women would beryllium built astatine the tract and the faulty storm-water drain successful the country would beryllium repaired utilizing funds allotted to him.
