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More than 3 months aft its inauguration, the recently constructed rootlike marketplace analyzable successful Woraiyur remains unused, with vendors continuing to run from makeshift stalls on surrounding roads, causing postulation congestion and inconvenience to motorists.
The marketplace complex, located adjacent CSI Mission Hospital successful Woraiyur, was inaugurated successful February. However, traders person not yet been shifted to the caller installation and proceed to behaviour concern connected Panchavarnaswami Temple Street and adjacent roads, wherever they had been temporarily accommodated during the operation period.
Residents and commuters person expressed interest implicit the continued roadside vending, which has resulted successful predominant postulation snarls and haphazard parking of two-wheelers successful the area, particularly connected weekends.
Constructed astatine a outgo of ₹4.40 crore, the rootlike and nutrient marketplace was funded done ₹1.40 crore sanctioned nether the Capital Grant Fund 2025–26 and ₹3 crore from the Tiruchi Corporation General Fund 2025–26. The analyzable houses 76 stalls for rootlike and effect vendors and 9 stalls for nutrient vendors, with each store measuring 120 sq. ft.
Corporation officials said a tender would soon beryllium floated to lease retired the marketplace to a contractor for 3 years. The lease had been fixed astatine ₹45.50 lakh, with a information deposit of ₹10 lakh.
Meanwhile, CPI councillor K. Sureshkumar has urged the Corporation to intimately show rent collection. He pointed retired that nether the erstwhile arrangement, contractors allegedly collected rent higher than the Corporation-prescribed regular rent of ₹100 from vendors.
“The civic assemblage should guarantee strict enforcement of rent regulations and forestall immoderate excess collection. Similar oversight is needed during temple festivals successful the locality erstwhile impermanent shops are acceptable up, to guarantee that vendors are not overcharged,” helium said.
