A MMA member said, “When we approach the chairperson regarding the flooding in the market, the chief assures us to study the problem and solve it before monsoon. However, when the monsoon is about to begin, there is a change in guard in the municipal council. Then, if we meet the Chief Officer, the official claims to be overburdened with additional charges. No official is ready to take the responsibility to look into the Mapusa market flooding. Vendors are forced to sit in waterlogged areas in the market while people are forced to walk through the stinking water overflowing from the clogged drains”.