The Hindu 08.12.2010
“New building for the old vegetable market”
Staff Reporter
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350 shops, yard for loading, unloading to come up |
— PHOTO: G. KARTHIKEYAN
Over to a new location:The rain-hit Gandhi wholesale vegetable market in
Dindigul to get a new building.
DINDIGUL: Gandhi wholesale vegetable market near Rock Fort, the
oldest market in the town, would soon function in a new building as the
municipality has plans to construct a new market at an estimated cost of
Rs.4.5 crore. Sufficient open area to load and unload vegetables would
also be provided, said R. Natarajan, Chairman, Dindigul Municipality.
He said here on Tuesday that 350 shops would be set up and a separate
yard for loading and unloading would also be established. Sufficient
space would be provided for movement of trucks.
An open site, which was used as lorry parking bay on Dindigul-Palani
Highway near Sakthi Talkies would be utilised for construction of new
complex, he added.
The existing market area near the Rock Fort would be transformed into a playground and a children’s park.
A cement podium, where Gandhi addressed the gathering in the town before Independence, would be retained, Mr. Natarajan said.
The municipality would also shift the lorry shed to the existing
garbage dumping yard near Muruga Bhavanam on Dindigul-Palani Highway.
Another site on Batlagundu-Dindigul bypass had been identified for
dumping municipal wastes.
To a question on renovation of roads, the chairman said relaying of TNEB Colony Road would commence tomorrow.
Relaying of Race Course Road, popularly known as Ring Road, had
commenced on Saturday. Since the rain had stopped, the municipality
would expedite laying of interior roads.
With the completion of underground drainage project, residents, with
no drinking water and drainage connection so far, may apply for new
connections to the municipality within five days. The underground
drainage and drinking water connection would be given immediately.
They may contact the chairman or the municipal commissioner for
further details. This facility is available only to the areas where the
underground drainage work was over.
Hitting hard on CPI(M), who frequently staged protests against the
delay in renovation of roads, the chairman asked the Dindigul MLA, K.
Balabarathi, not to politicise the work delay, caused due to natural
calamities for petty political gains.