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Due to mediocre maintenance, the caller food marketplace gathering constructed astatine a outgo of ₹93 lakh adjacent the caller autobus basal is successful a dilapidated condition. It remains wholly unused since its completion.
Fish from assorted parts of Ramanathapuram district, including Keelakarai, Erwadi, Rameswaram, Mandapam, Pamban, Valinokkam, Munthal, and Thondi, are being brought to the Ramanathapuram food marketplace for sale. Currently, the food markets run successful the Salaitheru and Bharathi Nagar areas of Ramanathapuram.
As the Salaitheru food market—a privately owned spot with precocious costs—is located adjacent a rootlike market, it attracts a ample crowd, severely affecting postulation owed to customers parking their cars outside.
To debar this, a caller food marketplace was constructed by the Municipality adjacent the New Bus Stand successful 2022 astatine a outgo of ₹93.39 lakh.
It was built successful a modern style, featuring 54 shops, parking space, drinking h2o facilities, and a acold retention country to sphere the fish.
However, owed to the deficiency of practice from the food vendors, it was closed a fewer months aft being inaugurated and has not been operational till now, said public.
Additionally, owed to the continuous deficiency of maintenance, weeds and shrubs person grown each implicit the building. With the doors lying open, it has go a dumping spot for garbage and a spot for drinking intoxicant astatine night, lamented residents.
P. Selvaraj of CPI (M), said, the vendors owed to mediocre income of fishes decided to instrumentality to their aged marketplace places. “Due to the beingness of residential buildings, matrimony halls, temples, among others, it is not a suitable spot for food market,” helium added.
But, if everyone decides to displacement their shops from the erstwhile locations, nationalist would automatically statesman visiting the market, helium noted.
Officials said, pursuing talks with the vendors, the marketplace would soon beryllium opened for nationalist use.
