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Vendors to move out of Central Market soon

MANGALORE: Wholesale and retail vendors of fruits and vegetable at the Central Market and surrounding buildings here have sought three months' time to move out of the area.

Hameed Kandak, general secretary of the Central Market Merchants' Association, told presspersons here on Wednesday that the association had agreed to district administration's proposal to shift the traders out of the area to decongest the city.

The traders were unwilling to occupy shops at the Agricultural Produce Marketing Committee (APMC) yard in Baikampady as it is away from the city. However, they are ready to relocate to a nearby area. The association was on the look out for an alternative site measuring 5 to 10 acres for constructing a market complex there. It had inspected some sites near the bridge across Netravati river on the Mangalore-Ullal Road, near the Fisheries College, and at Adyar-Kannur.

Mr. Kandak said the work on the new market complex would be funded by donors.

Deputy Commissioner V. Ponnuraj had promised that the market complex would be declared “market yard” under the APMC Act to ensure that the trade was regulated. He had also assured the traders of Government help for land-levelling, obtaining power supply, etc., Mr. Kandak said.

Meanwhile, the association has circulated a note among traders asking them to ensure that all vehicles loaded with goods reached the market between 9 p.m. and 7 a.m. and left the area immediately after unloading.

It has asked the traders to ensure that all vehicles transporting vegetables and fruits to Kerala, Bhatkal, Kundapur, Udupi, Bantwal, Puttur and Madikeri to leave the market before 9 a.m.

The traders have been asked not to occupy footpaths and roads.

All perishables should be dumped in the bins placed outside the market. All goods dumped in front of the entry points of the market building should be shifted to shops before 8 a.m. every day, the note said.

A committee had been constituted to ensure that traders follow these stipulations, Mr. Kandak said.

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