FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 2024
Team Herald
PERNEM: For the last 30 years, the Pernem market has no place of its own and locals meet by the roadside every Thursday by the roadside to sell their wares.
Although, the Pernem Municipal Council earns around Rs 17 lakh from the weekly market annually, sellers have expressed disappointment over the municipality not spending anything to build the market complex.
The first phase of PMC’s administrative building is underway and every Thursday the work has to be kept shut thanks to the weekly market. Around Rs 8 crore is being spent on the building.
The traffic police slap fines if someone stops on the road for too long but no action has been taken against the vendors who congest the street and hamper the traffic on Thursday.
Former panchayat minister Rajendra Arlekar had taken the initiative to hold the market on one side of the road but no permanent solution has been found yet.
The locals are demanding that the local MLA build the well-equipped market complex soon so the problem will be solved once and for all.
