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With 39 TASMAC shops identified for closure crossed the district, residents successful galore areas, citing inconvenience caused by the outlets, person demanded their closure and staged protests astatine respective places.
On May 12, Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay ordered the closure of 717 TASMAC shops functioning wrong 500 metres of acquisition institutions and places of worship crossed the State. The TASMAC medication successful the territory identified 39 specified shops and has already closed five. However, residents successful galore areas, including Solar, Kadambur, Ammapettai and Anthiyur, person sought closure of shops functioning successful their localities.
Residents of Solar, successful a petition submitted to the territory medication connected Monday (May 18, 2026), said a store was functioning successful the midst of a residential country and adjacent to a hospital, temple, play market, autobus stop, roundabout and on a road. They alleged that customers visiting the store squat and slumber extracurricular houses and bakeries, causing hardship to residents, motorists and women successful particular. Schoolchildren were besides acrophobic to usage the stretch, they claimed. In astir areas, the request for closure of astir 10 shops stems from problems allegedly created by visitors to the outlets, residents said.
