Hyderabad: The slushy and grubby Monda Market at Hissamgunj, was given a sprucing up for Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao’s visit on Saturday. Mr Rao plans to modernise the market with basic facilities for the vendors, without damaging the existing the heritage structure.
Dilapidated buildings are to be replaced with shopping complexes. While walking through the market’s lanes, Mr Rao stopped to inquire about vegetable and meat prices. As part of security measures, all weights and knives were asked to be kept away.
Vendor Mohammed Issak said, “Monda Market has been serving as a retail market for 130 years. The market needs to be restored, especially the meat section. The surrounding are shabby, there are neither public toilets nor drinking water facility.”
Mr Rao directed the GHMC to take up construction of toilets, and provide water facility immediately. He asked the officials to ensure upkeep of the Monda Market which needs regular cleansing and fogging operations to get rid of mosquitoes.
The Chief Minister said he would return to inspect modernisation works.
