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With Saraswati Puja and Ayudha Puja being celebrated connected Wednesday (October 1, 2025), markets crossed the metropolis witnessed dense unreserved connected Tuesday (September 30, 2025) arsenic radical turned retired successful ample numbers to bargain vegetables, fruits, and puja essentials.
Shoppers purchased banana stems, puffed rice, coconuts, mango leaves, banana bunches, sugarcane, ash gourd, flowers, and different festival items. From aboriginal morning, the Nethaji Daily Vegetable and Fruit Market, on with Uzhavar Sandhai astatine Sampathand Periyar Nagars, remained packed with buyers, portion impermanent stalls on the roadsides besides did brisk business.
Buyers complained of steep terms hikes, with respective items costing implicit 50% much than usual. Chrysanthemum (Sevvanthi), successful particular, were sold astatine implicit triple the regular rate. Traders attributed the summation to precocious demand, pointing retired that families crossed income groups observe the festival connected a expansive scale. They besides noted that prices would apt highest further connected Wednesday.
Meanwhile, transport hubs, including the cardinal autobus basal and railway station, were filled with passengers travelling for the festival. Tourist spots specified arsenic Kodiveri anicut besides drew larger crowds, boosted by the schoolhouse abrogation that coincides with the festivities.
