The Hindu 05.01.2011
Corporation to provide cold storage facility at new flower market
| Work is expected to be completed before Deepavali |
MODERN FACILITY:Rural Industries Minister Pongalur N. Palanisamy (right) and Mayor R. Venkatachalam at the inauguration of the flower market in Coimbatore on Tuesday.
COIMBATORE: The Coimbatore Corporation will soon provide a cold storage facility at the new flower market, which State Minister for Rural Industries Pongalur N. Palanisamy inaugurated on Tuesday.
The estimated cost of the project is Rs. 15 lakh and the work is expected to be completed before Deepavali this year, according to sources in the civic body.
The current status of the project is that the civic body has prepared the estimate and is ready to float the tender. The storage facility is expected to come up on a 24 sq.m. room which will have freezer boxes for flower merchants to hire.
The new market the Minister inaugurated has 27 retail shops, 18 wholesale shops and an auction hall on 40 cent. The rest of the 77.5-cent plot has been used for parking. The Corporation has spent Rs. 98.37 lakh to construct the new market.
Of the amount spent, it has managed to let on lease 18 shops, the auction hall and parking space along with toilet for around Rs. 30 lakh.
The sources say as the remaining 27 shops attracted only one tender each, the civic body as per norms will issue fresh tenders.
