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Prices of ‘puja’ articles, specified arsenic flowers, bananas, banana leaves, and plantain saplings, skyrocketed, arsenic request for these items for celebrating ‘Ayudha puja’ reached its crescendo connected Tuesday.
As ‘Ayudha puja’ is celebrated connected Wednesday aft decorating the workplaces with banana saplings, mango leaves, flowers, garlands etc. buyers thronged the markets selling these ‘puja articles’ and the prices of these articles consequently went up phenomenally. A brace of plantain sapling, which would beryllium usually disposable successful the marketplace for ₹5, was sold astatine ₹30 connected Tuesday and clump of 20 plantain leaves was sold astatine ₹300 successful the Kamaraj Vegetable Market here.
The terms of state banana bunch, which stood astatine ₹600 2 days ago, moved up to ₹1,000 connected Tuesday, and the premium reddish banana bunches were sold astatine ₹1,200. A tiny clump with 10 mango leaves, which would beryllium tied crossed the entrances of houses and the workplaces during auspicious occasions, was sold astatine ₹10.
Prices of flowers, an inseparable constituent of each celebrations, feverishly accrued with jasmine being sold astatine ₹1,100 per kg portion the prices of each different flowers excessively were high. One lotus was sold astatine ₹10. Even though the angiosperm terms was precise precocious successful the morning, the ascending inclination changed a spot successful the evening owed to dense accomplishment and diminishing demand.
Sale of legume crockery (sundal), puffed atom and aval (rice flakes) was besides brisk with the request going up exponentially for ‘ayudha puja’ celebrations.
Even though constabulary unit had been deployed astir the markets and different places selling ‘puja materials’, vehicular question astir these spots was astatine snail’s gait owed to unprecedented unreserved successful the forenoon and aft 5 p.m. and haphazard parking of bikes.
In the celebrated Thovaalai Flower Market adjacent Nagercoil, a large supplier of flowers to assorted markets successful Tamil Nadu and neighbouring Kerala, angiosperm prices person accrued 300%, the traders say.
The ‘pitchipoo’ (wild jasmine), which was sold for ₹500 a kg a fewer days ago, was sold astatine ₹1,500 connected Tuesday and jasmine’s terms roseate from ₹400 to ₹1,200. The terms of sevanthipoo (chrysanthemum, ₹250 per kg), grenthi (marigold) ₹80), vadamalli (bachelors button, ₹60), kozhikondai (cockscomb ₹80), roseate (₹400), arali (oleander, ₹500), marikozhunthu (marjoram, ₹150) and sampangi (tuberose, ₹400).
