Will the long pending dream of having a full-fledged market come true is the question Quepemkars have on their mind for past many years.
For the past 10 years the file of this project is held up in red tapism. In fact Goa State Infrastructure Development Corporation (GSIDC) was supposed to construct this multi-facility market project. Local MLA Babu Kavalekar had initiated this project but suddenly GSIDC has refused to take up the project and rejected the QMC file to construct market complex. Urban Development Minister Francisco D’Souza has promised local body to construct the complex.
Since then the file is pending before the Directorate of Municipal Administration (DMA). When Herald asked the QMC Chairperson Rahul Pereira to put light on the market project he said the planning of the project was not done properly hence it has not got the financial nod from the government.
The previous council had sent single phase market complex proposal which was not feasible. There are many occupants in the present market building who need to be rehabilitated. Pereira told Herald that the present council has sent a fresh proposal of first phase in which the fish market will be constructed and all the other shop owners who are occupants of shops will be temporally shifted to phase one and then the old building will be demolished to construct second phase complex.
Pereira is optimistic about the project which he hopes will start soon.
From the past eight years since the fish market was demolished, fish, vegetable and fruit vendors are sitting in the open to sell their product they are eagerly waiting for the market project.
