Bhubaneswar (SunstarTV Bureau): The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) has started decentralising big markets to reduce crowds and ensure proper adherence to Covid norms as cases continues to rise.
Earlier, it had relocated several markets with the same objective. However, hundreds of vendors would set up shops in the new places violating the norms.
With no significant fall in the daily infections, the BMC has now started decentralising the markets by reducing the number of vendors at any given place. It will instead provide them with spaces elsewhere.
In the south-east zone of the capital, the Unit-1 market (inside space) has been kept out of bounds following complaints of violations. But the vegetable vendors there have been allowed to do their daily business from a place designated by the BMC. “We will decentralise the Unit-IV vegetable market soon. The non-veg market there is closed,” said Anshuman Rath, zonal deputy commissioner.
(Sources: Times of India)
