VASCO: The Mormugao Municipal Council (MMC) has recently shifted traditional vegetable vendors to the renovated market. However, these vendors are facing a major problem – they simply do not have customers.
The traditional local vendors are selling all types of vegetables, including local beans, lady fingers, etc at the renovated Vasco market but customers are hard to come by. This is because migrant vegetable vendors are selling vegetables by the roadside.
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Even on an occasion such as Nag Panchami, the vendors, mostly women, did not have customers. Activist Xencor Polji who highlighted the plight of the women vendors said, “The Mormugao Municipal Council should take some measure and stop migrant women from sitting by the roadside outside the Vasco fishmarket and selling vegetables. If they are allowed, locals will suffer.”
Xencor Polji also appealed to Vasco-ites to visit the renovated market and patronize the vendors at the renovated market. He said they sell vegetables, local chicken, eggs, oil, etc. He also called on MMC to take a lenient view of the local vendors. However, he strongly recommended that the migrant vendors be removed from the roadside since they cause traffic congestion.
The traditional vendors too have requested the authorities to resolve this issue immediately.
