Roadside shopkeepers on Coimbatore’s Nanjappa Road move out

Coimbatore Corporation has earmarked space for them in Tatabad.

Shopkeepers moving out their wares from the makeshift premises on Nanjappa Road in the city on Friday.

Around 120 roadside shopkeepers on the eastern end of Nanjappa Road began moving out their wares to Tatabad on Friday. The Coimbatore Corporation had asked them to vacate the area to facilitate widening of the road, where the southern end of the Gandhipuram flyover touches the ground.

The Corporation had served them notices more than six months ago when the flyover construction was in progress.

The traders had sought alternative place to carry on their business. The Corporation did suggest a few places but the traders rejected those fearing poor business. Now the Corporation has earmarked a stretch of pavement near the Tangedco office near Power House where each shopkeeper would get a space measuring 20 sq.ft.

They would move out in a couple of days and thereafter the road widening work would begin, the Corporation sources added.