Roadside vendors protest against removal of shops

Traders successful Devakottai engaged successful a roadworthy blockade present connected Wednesday to protestation the removal of roadside shops.

Bus basal enlargement enactment is underway astatine the Devakottai Municipality successful Sivaganga territory astatine a outgo of ₹12.81 crore, currently, a impermanent autobus basal is operating astatine Ramnagar.

However, roadside traders person continued to acceptable up shops and behaviour concern adjacent to the aged autobus stand.

As this has been causing postulation congestion successful the area, officials from the Municipality and the Highways Department gave the traders a circumstantial timeframe to displacement their shops to a antithetic location.

Nevertheless, the roadside shops were not removed and continued to run arsenic before.

On Wednesday, erstwhile officials took enactment to region these roadside shops, the traders launched a roadworthy blockade, stating that their livelihoods would beryllium affected.

However, arsenic Karaikudi MLA S. Mangudi contacted the officials and requested that traders beryllium fixed much clip to relocate their roadside shops, the officials near without removing the shops.