Vegetable vendors surrounded the Collectorate, alleging that there is a conspiracy to destroy the business of the poor.

Raigarh, November 25 (HS). A vegetable market is organized every Sunday in Itwari Bazaar of Raigarh city. In this market, the administration has prepared a proposal to develop a park in the form of Oxygen Zone. On this proposal of the administration, the vegetable vendors There is a lot of anger among the people and they surrounded the Collectorate on Monday and submitted a memorandum opposing the proposal.

For the last 80 years, a market of vegetables and other items is held on Sundays in about 5 acres of ground in the middle of the city. Vegetable vendors not only from Raigarh but also from Sakti, Bilaspur come to sell their goods in this market. Only on Sundays, this market is organized. A market is organized in the grounds and remains empty for the rest of the day. In view of this, the district administration has prepared a proposal to develop this place as a park in the form of Oxygen Zone. Construction of the park will eliminate the space for the vegetable market. This is the reason why the vegetable vendors Here They are protesting against the construction of the park. Vegetable vendors gathered in Itwari market today and reached the Collectorate in a rally. They have expressed their protest by submitting a memorandum to the SDM addressed to the Collector. Vegetable vendors say that the administration is conspiring to remove them. Kar wants to end the existence of Itwari market. Instead of taking action on the heavy pollution caused by industries, poor vegetable vendors are being removed in the name of oxygen.

Here, on behalf of the district administration, the SDM says that the vegetable vendors have submitted a memorandum against the park. Since the market is set up by the Municipal Corporation, higher officials and the Municipal Corporation Commissioner will be informed.