Tamil Nadu - Tiruchi   

Gandhi Market turns a grazing field for cattle

S. Ganesan

TIRUCHI: The Gandhi Market, the teeming marketplace in the City, is turning into a grazing field for stray cattle of late.

Scores of stray cattle could be seen rummaging through the mounds of garbage dumped around the market place at any given point of time. Traders complain that the bovines have become a menace as they hinder traffic movement around the market, especially on the busy Thanjavur Road.

Unwary visitors to the market also face the risk of inviting the wrath of the cattle if they bump into any of these animals.Traders say that the cattle are reared by influential private individuals and are deliberately allowed to graze around the market to feed on the tonnes and tonnes of vegetable refuse generated everyday.

Consequently, road users already harried over the chaotic traffic on the Thanjavur Road, a major traffic bottleneck in the city, are forced to manoeuvre around the animals.

Special drives

Special drives to impound the stray cattle in the city were taken up only in fits and starts. Traders of the market have also expressed unhappiness over the poor sanitation around the market, especially with regard to the clearance of garbage. The task of clearing the garbage from the market and its surroundings has been privatised by the Corporation _ a move that has not gone down well with the traders.

Forum complains

Office-bearers of the traders associations say that though the garbage was being cleared from the market complex, it is being dumped around the market before being removed by the Corporation vehicles. Often mounds of garbage were allowed to accumulate before being cleared, it was alleged.

"The situation is very bad in front of gate numbers 3, 5 and six in the market. It is not only an eyesore to visitors but also a health hazard," says an office-bearer of the market traders association.

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