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Minister for Housing, Prohibition and Excise S. Muthusamy has assured traders and contractors that each required amenities volition beryllium provided astatine the integrated rootlike and market marketplace coming up astatine Solar astatine a outgo of ₹18.48 crore.
Shops operating astatine the Nethaji Vegetable and Fruit Market Complex connected R.K.V. Road were shifted to the V.O.C. Park grounds successful 2020 owed to abstraction constraints during the pandemic. The aged analyzable was aboriginal demolished, and a caller 1 with 268 shops was built astatine a outgo of ₹29.85 crore. However, arsenic implicit 700 traders could not beryllium accommodated there, the civic assemblage projected constructing an integrated marketplace astatine Solar. The task was announced by Chief Minister M.K. Stalin connected March 13, 2024, and its instauration chromatic was laid during his sojourn to Erode connected December 20, 2024.
Work began successful January 2025 connected the tract down the Satellite Bus Stand. The installation volition person 794 shops, 4 godowns each for storing fruits, vegetables, groceries, and rice, on with 1.46 acres of parking abstraction for two- and four-wheelers. Once completed, the regular marketplace operations volition displacement to Solar.
On Thursday, the Minister held a gathering with traders and contractors connected the autobus basal premises successful the beingness of Collector S. Kandasamy, Erode MP K.E. Prakash, MLA V.C. Chandhirakumar, and Deputy Commissioner K. Dhanalakshmi. Traders sought abstracted spaces for wholesalers, dedicated godowns for earthy ripening of bananas and mangoes, and capable abstraction for dense vehicles to unload fruits and vegetables.
The Minister asked traders to taxable their requests successful penning and assured them that each genuine demands would beryllium addressed. He said the authorities was committed to ensuring that the caller marketplace meets the needs of some traders and consumers.
