Goemkarponn desk
PONDA: After clearing footpath vendors at the roadside at Ponda Market in April this year, finally, PMC took the initiative to provide parking spaces for bikes and four-wheelers at the roadside at Ponda Market.
It was a long pending demand of vendors and customers visiting the market for shopping.
Today workers were engaged in painting parking areas for four-wheelers at the roadside of Ponda Market.
Pondaitees Welcomed the parking facility.
Even Market shed vendors earlier had gheraoed PMC officials to clear footpath vendors who were eating their business. The roads in front of the market complex and vegetable market were seen clean, and the space at the roadside is available for parking with customers seen today parking their vehicles. The action came after several years.
It’s now the past several decades, the Ponda Market vendors are opposed to footpath vending or the encroachment on the footpath.
According to Vendors in market shed, around 300 vendors operate inside Ponda Market shed but in the past as sopo contractor or the Officials were allowing to operate vendors on footpath their business was eaten by them as instead of going into market shed the customers were directly shopping at footpath vendors causing losses to vendors operating inside market shed.
Secondly, due to encroachment on the footpath, the customers struggled to find parking space, thus turning their back to vendors inside the market shed.
The Ponda locals too expressed happiness over PMC clearing footpath vendors, and that space is now available for parking at Ponda Market after many years.
