CMDA Puts Off Plan To Shift Koyambedu Wholesale Market

Officials say since the last 10 days, around 4,000 tests have been done and only two cases were found. As a result, the plan to shift the market was dropped

- C Shiva Kumar

Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority (CMDA) on Wednesday said it had put off its plans to shift the Koyambedu wholesale vegetable market to five different locations as of now, after conducting Covid tests for the shop owners and workers in the Koyambedu market. Since the last 10 days, around 4,000 tests have been done and only two cases were detected, as a result of which, the plan to shift the market to five different locations including Kilambakkam has been put off, official sources said.

When pointing to reports appearing on certain sections of media that there is a proposal to turn the site for Kilambakkam bus terminus into a vegetable market, CMDA member secretary Shunchonngam Jatak Chiru told Express, “There is no such current proposal though it was once considered as a possible site.”