Women vendors ask Coimbatore Corporation to assign spot in new wholesale fish market in Ukkadam
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Women vendors ask Coimbatore Corporation to assign spot in new wholesale fish market in Ukkadam

The Hindu  

About 25 women fish vendors in the retail fish market have asked the Coimbatore Corporation for shops to be allocated at the new wholesale market being built in Pullukadu in Ukkadam. According to members of the Coimbatore Circle Fishermen Cooperative Society, women vendors were charged ₹1.5 lakh for access to the new market by traders who have rented space in the existing Lorrypettai market. R. Geetha, a seller said, “Around 50 vendors were selling fish sourced from the tanks in Coimbatore for 40 years and 32 of them earlier sought to operate in the new market. Now, 25 vendors earn ₹300-₹400 a day.” Society president M. Balamurugan alleged, “The traders demand ₹1.5 lakh for each woman vendor to allow them into the market.

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The Hindu  

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