Curtains are down for the British era Netaji wholesale market on Lang Bazaar Road as traders mobilise funds to build common wholesale market near the rehabilitation camp for Sri Lankan Tamils on the outskirts of the town on Chennai - Bengaluru Highway.
Accompanied by Mayor Sujatha Anandakumar, DMK MP for Katpadi constituency, D.M. Kathir Anand, laid the foundation stone for the ₹200 crore market complex work near the camp at Melmanavur village on Sunday.
“Relocation of the wholesale market from the town to its outskirts will ease traffic movement in the congested town. Retail shops will continue to function in a portion of the old market,” said R.B. Gnanavel, president, Vellore Vanigar Sangam Federation.
