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Alleging irregularities successful the allotment of shops astatine caller marketplace analyzable successful Valliyoor and accrued basal price, traders of aged marketplace submitted a petition astatine the play grievance redress gathering chaired by Tirunelveli District Collector R. Sukumar present connected Monday.
In the petition, the traders said 133 traders from antithetic parts of Radhapuram taluk had been operating shops astatine the aged marketplace complex. In 2022, the regular market, which belonged to Valliyoor Town Panchayat, and was managed by a contractor, was taken backmost by the municipality civic body, and it was rebuilt.
The traders said that they had been provided impermanent abstraction during the operation period, but the determination was isolated and negatively affected their regular business. However, aft the completion of the caller marketplace complex’s operation successful December 2024, the Demand Draft (DD) was issued to 133 traders from the aged marketplace for store allotment.
Subramanian, 1 of the traders, said: “However, aft a fewer months, we were asked to instrumentality the DD and a caller tender was floated past November.” During the tender process, of the 222 shops successful the caller market, 104 shops were taken by bidders portion 5% of the shops were reserved for persons with disabilities, leaving lone 107 shops for 133 traders from the aged marketplace complex.
Traders alleged that governmental enactment members and officials had utilized their influence, starring to irregularities successful store allotment. The basal terms for shops was primitively fixed astatine ₹4,500, but was aboriginal accrued to ₹7,300 for traders who person shops connected priority, they said.
Through the petition, traders placed respective demands earlier the District Collector, including fixing a azygous enactment basal terms for each 133 shops, collecting rent connected a monthly ground alternatively of annually and ensuring allotment of 133 shops to traders of the aged market.
The traders urged the Collector to instrumentality enactment noting that astir of them had been moving shops astatine the marketplace for implicit 40 years and their livelihood depended connected it.
