Dinesh Kamath's news item 'Modern fish markets to come up in Panvel' that was published in Newsband

Modern fish markets to come up in Panvel

By Dinesh Kamath

PANVEL: Panvel residents will get two fish markets with modern facilities. The standing committee of Panvel Municipal Council (PMC) has approved the plan for construction of these two fish markets in the city. Two agencies have been chosen to do the construction works.

There already exists one fish market at Uran Naka. The new market will come in the place of the old one. The area chosen for this market is 1800 sq m. Half this space will be used to construct 154 shops, each admeasuring 16 sq feet. All the measures will be taken to see to it that the waste water of the market is drained out. The other half of the space will be reserved for parking purpose.

The second market will come up at Lokhand Pada. This place will have 104 shops, parking lots, free water and toilet facilities. Even the market at Uran Naka will have all these facilities.

S N Naik & Brothers and Manoj Enterprises are the two agencies chosen for developing the markets.

The residents of Panvel are feeling relieved that two hygienic fish markets are to come up in the city. The existing fish markets were found to be horrible. These fish markets were unhygienic, without parking facilities and without modern methods of storing fishes which would affect the quality of fishes sold here.

As far as the new markets are concerned, the PMC will come up with a technologically advanced cold storage that will keep the fishes fresh and not let them decay.

PMC will not have to dish out money from their coffers to construct these two fish markets since Central Fisheries Development Board has volunteered to bear the full cost for building the two fish markets. Around Rs 4 crores will be spent to build these markets.