Stormwater drains to be created; roads to be widened, concretised
The Basic Infrastructure and Amenities Promotion Committee has approved an allocation of Rs.33.63 crore for augmentation and maintenance of the infrastructure, including stormwater drain network, in the Koyambedu market complex.
The Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority will release the money for the project from its funds collected through the Infrastructure and Amenities Charges. The actual work is expected to take a few months to begin.
The Market Management Committee will carry out the work which includes creation of new stormwater drains over 9 km long, widening of roads and concretisation of a 350-metre road connecting gate 7 and 14, which is being used by heavy vehicles to carry perishables to the market complex.
According to officials of CMDA, the SWDs have been severely clogged and are not in use. This has led to unhygienic conditions in the market complex.
The market complex was planned in an area of around 295 acres and the wholesale market for perishables has been developed in an area of around 70 acres in the first phase.
It has around 3,154 shops for vegetables, fruits and flowers. The market has two blocks for vegetable shops and one each for fruit and flower market. The restoration work at the market is expected to increase the number of visitors to the market, said an official of the CMDA.
The market has over one lakh visitors a day.
Keywords: Koyambedu market, CMDA
Vegetable scraps, Garbage that pile up in the market are mostly recylable. Vendors should be given due advice to take back the Vegetable scraps. They will be good manure. The same lorries/van/vehicles can be used to take back the scraps. Shop owners and shop renters should neatly store up the vegetable wastes in gunny bags, without mud and water getting mixed up and become marshy..
Having an inspection on how shopkeepers handle and live there helps. They ( most people in this city ) have the habit of chucking in wastes, papers, plastic, pan etcetra into the holes wherever they see. Often it is the Sewerage and Drainage holes that is being targeted. Hope an awareness is created among all to STOP it.
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