the goan I network
MARGAO
Vegetable stalls in the Gandhi Market and the SGPDA Market opened on Monday morning, giving some relief to the citizens in the commercial capital.
The police, however, later made their presence felt at the SGPDA Market and got the vendors to shut down the vegetable and fruit markets.
With the commercial capital observing a complete Janata Curfew on Sunday, leaving the residents as well as the vendors confined to their homes, citizens came out of their houses on Monday morning as the vegetable and fruit vendors opened the stalls in both the Gandhi market and he SGPDA market.
Fruit vendors did brisk business as usual near the Pimpalkatta, while vegetables were available at the adjoining Gandhi Market. Handcarts laden with bananas and other fruits dotted the entire station road in the morning session.
By 9 am, however, the police made their presence felt at the SGPDA market and other places to enforce the curfew and the prohibitory orders issued by the South Goa District Collector, Ajit Roy, on Sunday.
Within minutes, the vegetable and fruit stalls in the SGPDA market were shut down after the police ensured that the Collector’s order was implemented in both letter and spirit.
By the time the market was finally shut down, anxious citizens could lay their hands on the vegetables, not only in the two markets but from vendors on the roadsides.
