A section of traders at Palayam market agree to shift to Kalluthankadavu
Traders at the Palayam vegetable market in Kozhikode have agreed to relocate to a new complex at Kalluthankadavu, provided specific facility concerns are addressed. The move is part of a larger effort by the Kozhikode Corporation to modernize market infrastructure.
Why it matters
This relocation highlights the challenges of urban infrastructure development and the necessity of stakeholder consensus in public-private partnership projects.
A section of traders at the Palayam vegetable and fruit market have agreed to shift to the new market complex at Kalluthankadavu (New Palayam Market), provided the necessary facilities are arranged there.
The traders conveyed their willingness at a meeting convened by Kozhikode Mayor O. Sadasivan on Saturday. Only a small number of wholsesale merchants attended the meeting, while the others abstained.
The traders who attended the meeting, however, raised concerns over the location of some of the shops allotted to them. They said some of the rooms earmarked for merchants were on the upper floors and demanded that they be shifted to the ground floor. They said locating the shops upstairs would affect their business as well as the movement of goods vehicles.
The present-day Palayam market in Kozhikode. | Photo Credit: K. RAGESH
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