Koyambedu To Host Special Market For Ayudha Pooja
To help visitors locate the special market, signboards will be installed at various points, and announcements will be made through loudspeakers.
Chennai:The Koyambedu Wholesale Market Management Committee will organise a special market for the sale of Ayudha Pooja essentials from Oct. 14 to 23.
The market will be set up across 1.5 acres of the parking area at the foodgrains market complex, where vendors will sell festival items such as puffed rice, beaten rice, banana saplings, festoons and pumpkins.
To help visitors locate the special market, signboards will be installed at various points, and announcements will be made through loudspeakers. The market management committee will provide basic amenities, including drinking water and toilets. Officials will also be deployed on a rotational basis to monitor arrangements and regulate vehicle movement to prevent traffic congestion, the committee said.
A consultative meeting was held on Monday under the leadership of S.P. Karthika, Chief Executive Officer of the Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority (CMDA), in the presence of traders’ representatives and officials from the market management committee, police, Fire and Rescue Services, Greater Chennai Corporation and Chennai Metro Rail Limited.