C Shivakumar
Chennai
The workers as well as traders in Koyambedu market could
soon relish quality food with Market Management Committee planning to open a
canteen in the Asia’s largest perishable goods market.
A Market Management Committee official told Express that
plans are on convert the canteen to Amma Unavagam and talks are on with Chennai
Corporation in this regard.
MMC officials feel this could put an end to mobile
eateries thriving inside the market. “Once the canteen, which would be set up
abutting ‘A’ road of the market, comes up all the illegal eateries inside the
market would be closed,” he said.
The officials feel since the workers can’t afford to pay
a major chunk of their daily wage for food as such plans are on to have Amma canteen.
Meanwhile, Koyambedu market is set to be walled in the
next months and plans are also on to have a toll booth, said a CMDA official.
The work order worth Rs 1.25 crore has already been given
to wall the market besides plans are also on to refurbish the gates, he said.
The compound was built 20 years ago and with illegal
elements and cows finding their way into the market, the wall is a necessity
now, say traders.
Meanwhile, the market is also going to be under
surveillance in the next two months as CCTV cameras woud be installed in seven
places of the market. Interestingly, this comes in the wake of Tamilnadu Urban
Infrastructure Financial Services Limited proposing to set up CCTV cameras
around 30 locations in the market. “After taking the the expertise of police,
the seven locations were identified,” the MMC official says.
Meanwhile, the 69.07-crore foodgrains market on the 14.41-acre
land next to the existing wholesale vegetable market is all set to open in the
next six months. “We are expecting it to be completed either in May or June,” a
senior CMDA official said. He said that more than 60 per cent of work is
completed.
The food grains which will have 500 shops with provisions
of godowns equipped with fire fighting system.
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