Deepavali shopping frenzy chokes main commercial streets in Tiruchi

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A presumption    of the NSB Road which is bursting astatine  its seams with endless watercourse  of shoppers connected  Sunday.

A presumption of the NSB Road which is bursting astatine its seams with endless watercourse of shoppers connected Sunday. | Photo Credit: R. VENGADESH

The tremendous surge successful thoroughfare vendors and hawkers mounting up shops up of Deepavali has aggravated the chaos successful commercialized streets successful Tiruchi.

With Deepavali conscionable a week away, determination has been a unreserved of retail traders successful the metropolis from antithetic parts of the state specified arsenic Kolkata, Pune, Bengaluru, Mysuru, Mumbai, and Surat, carrying piles of readymade garments and apparel with them. These traders person acceptable up impermanent shops connected NSB Road, Big Bazaar Street, Nandhi Kovil Street, Singarathope, and Super Bazaar.

While a conception of them operates encroaching the nationalist space, galore bash concern successful beforehand of the established shops by paying rent to them for the space. To currency successful connected the demand, immoderate traders connected Big Bazaar Street and others person vacated the abstraction successful beforehand of their outlets and fixed it connected rent to the seasonal traders.

The cognition of roadside vendors and hawkers connected the roads has worsened the congestion successful the choked streets. These traders run successful the mediate of the road. The occupation is acute connected NSB Road, the nerve-centre of retail commercialized successful Tiruchi. A fig of sellers dealing with fruits, flowers, rootlike and snacks bash concern successful the mediate of NSB Road.

“The NSB Road has already go constrictive with the mounting up of roadside shops connected some sides. The roadworthy is choked. We bash not person abstraction to determination freely. The postulation police, who are expected to guarantee escaped travel of traffic, hardly instrumentality enactment against those disturbing the escaped travel of traffic,” says K. Muthukrishnan of Lalgudi, who was successful Tiruchi connected Saturday for Deepavali buying on with his household members.

Another shopper said that much policemen should beryllium posted connected the commercialized streets. Tough enactment should beryllium taken against the traders, who run connected the mediate of the roads, helium demanded.

Published - October 12, 2025 08:49 p.m. IST

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