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MARGAO
Margao Municipality-owned New Market opened on Wednesday, but only to allow the traders to clean up their shops and establishments and facilitate the civic body to disinfect the market complex.
President of the Margao New Market Traders Association Vinod Shirodkar repeated his plea to allow the traders to open shutters in the new market in the near future. “When standalone shops and business establishments are all open across the commercial capital, the government should take steps to open the markets as well. It’s now over a month since the market has remained shut down. Our goods have been left damaged by rodents and pests and it is in the fitness of things that the government permit the opening of the market immediately’, Shirodkar said.
Pointing out that just a month to go for the onset of monsoons, Shirodkar said goods purchases by the traders have been lying in their shops without any business, adding that they will suffer huge losses in the event the traders are not allowed to sell their items, beginning from next month.
“We are into the busiest time of the year when people visit the market to make provision for the summer. Our business has been badly affected by the covid-19 lockdown for a month now. If the situation continues for some time, the traders will suffer huge losses’, he added.
