The shopkeepers at Connemara Market at Palayam are set to be rehabilitated to temporary structures by August ahead of the redevelopment project under Smart City. The ₹100-crore redevelopment project consists of the construction of a three-floor market complex and multi-level car parking facility.
Over the past week, the Corporation authorities have held consultations with the traders currently occupying various shops in the market, in which a majority agreed to shift to the temporary facility which has come up near the Bakery Junction-Palayam road, behind the existing market. A draft list with the exact locations to be allocated for each of them will be presented at a meeting to be held later this week.
The work on the redevelopment project can begin only after all the shopkeepers are shifted to the temporary facility, which has been made using pre-fabricated steel structures. The construction of the rehabilitation block is being done on the land under the Thiruvananthapuram Development Authority (TRIDA). Out of the more than one acre of land, 40 cents used to be a waste dump behind the market and was reclaimed last year through an intensive bio-mining process.
