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The play textile marketplace present wore a festive look connected Tuesday (October 14, 2025) arsenic thousands of shoppers, traders, and retailers crowded the country to marque purchases up of Deepavali.
More than 3,000 impermanent textile shops were located astatine Ashokapuram, Eswaran Kovil Street, Thiruvenkatasamy Street, N.M.S. Compound, and the E.K.M. Abdul Gani Textile Market adjacent Panneerselvam Park. These play outlets, which are unfastened from Monday nighttime till Tuesday evening, complement the regular textile shops that relation passim the week.
Traders from crossed the State and neighbouring States get to bargain goods successful bulk for their customers. The marketplace offers an extended scope of fabric fabrics, saris, dhotis, towels, churidars, bedspreads and ready-made garments, sourced from Erode, Tiruppur, Surat, Pune, Mumbai, and Ahmedabad. Affordable pricing and wide assortment pull a dependable watercourse of customers done the day.
With festival buying gaining pace, some wholesale and retail income person been witnessing a crisp summation from Monday (October 13, 2025) evening. Streets astir Panneerselvam Park and Gandhiji Road are choked with vehicles arsenic traders and shoppers jostled for space. Police are deployed to modulate postulation successful the congested stretches.
Shopkeepers expressed restitution implicit the turnout, saying concern had picked up considerably with the festival conscionable days away. As Deepavali falls connected Monday, October 20, traders person decided to unfastened the play marketplace connected Saturday, October 18.
Meanwhile, traders person urged authorities to wide unauthorised roadside textile stalls operating betwixt Panneerselvam Park and Manikoondu, claiming they were affecting morganatic business.
