ME NEWS BUREAU: Kolkata is good to go to get its first skimming market along the lines of those found in Bangkok, in the coming year. The Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA) in a joint effort with the city enterprise has changed a water body in Patuli zone into a stand-out such market that will house more than 200 shops. Around Rs 10 crore has been spent to build up the water body, said councilor of Ward 110 of KMC, Arup Chakraborty.
'The Floating Market of Patuli', which is 500 mts in length and 60 mts wide, will be tossed open to the general population in January one year from now. It will be introduced by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, and will have no passage charge.
"Our Urban Development and Municipal Affairs Minister Firhad Hakim as of late went to Bangkok to go to a course. There he saw skimming markets and chose to repeat such a market in Kolkata. In India, there is no gliding market. The one you see at Kashmir's Dal Lake is a sloppy market where singular venders connect with clients in houseboats. This will be the nation's first gliding market and the third in Asia. The pastor was searching for a place to set this up. When I came to think about his arrangement, I moved toward him and revealed to him that there are water bodies in my ward which could be utilized to set up this market. He had sent KMDA officers to check the attainability parts of the water body. Subsequent to getting a positive report, the KMDA alongside the KMC stepped up with regards to set up the market," Chakraborty said "The market will be isolated into four groups — vegetables, staple, fish and meat. There will walkways on the water body, which will be utilized by individuals to achieve these groups and there will be pontoons on each side of these walkways which will offer products. These water crafts will be the skimming shops in the market," the councilor said.
He included that businesspeople who were ousted from the Eastern Metropolitan Bypass region because of street broadening will be restored in the gliding market. "The Eastern Metropolitan Bypass was moved toward a six-path street as of late. Subsequently, a few businesspeople from one side of the street were expelled. These retailers will be restored in this coasting market," he said.
The councilor guaranteed that the skimming business sector won't represent any danger to the earth, because of activities taken by KMC to defend the water body.
"These water bodies fill in as characteristic waste frameworks. In storm, rain water used to collect here. Presently we have redone the seepage framework. We will introduce aerator machines in the water body to evacuate the natural waste. We will likewise develop a kind of fish in the water body which will devour the inorganic and bio-degradable waste. Moreover, our laborers will be there to evacuate plastic sacks and different kinds of waste," the councilor expounded.
