Shaikh Jamaluddin | NT
PANAJI
After the construction of the first phase of the city municipal market, and accommodating the vegetable vendors and fruit vendors in the complex and creating space for loading and unloading vegetables and grocery items some kind of discipline was witnessed there.
But the work on fish market, which was to be taken up in the second phase of the market complex, has failed to take off.
Presently, one can see filth and dirt spread everywhere in the fish market. At many places, there are ‘trenches’, and gutters are overflowing. The market is only cleaned in the evening.
Some fish vendors try to maintain cleanliness, and clean their places before they leave the market in the evening. The gutters here are either left open or improperly covered.
Shopkeepers in the vicinity feel that the municipality should clean the market from time to time so that the visitors are not inconvenienced.
While chairman of market committee Uday Madkaikar said that as the level of gutters in the market is uneven, waste water gets accumulated but “we always clean the market with water once fish is exhausted.”
Presently, the municipality is planning to repair and rebuilt the gutters, and in this regard, we held a discussion, he said adding it is in the pipeline.
“Once the tender is floated, the new gutters will be ready before the monsoon,” he said adding this is due to the wholesale fish sellers who throw the waste and fish sludge anywhere after conducting the business.