After the vendor’s eviction from the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Fish Market (near Crawford Market) in south Mumbai and Meenatai Thackeray Fish Market in Dadar, they have been given an alternative location in Airoli. However, these vendors have refused to go there. In light of the same, the vendors will be staging a protest on Wednesday, August 25 the Mumbai Municipal Corporation headquarters to demand rehabilitation of fish markets in Mumbai.
Akhil Maharashtra Machchimar Kriti Samiti is leading the agitation and many fishermen’s association and vendors from Mumbai, Palghar and Raigad will be participating in it.
Whilst the fish market building at Crawford Market will be reconstructed because it is dangerous, the fish market at Dadar too was removed. Wholesalers and suppliers from both markets were sent to Airoli. The women fish retailers in Dadar market, however, were given a place in the Marol market.
Vendors in both these markets are opposed to alternative spaces. The wholesalers in the Crawford market, are not ready to go to Airoli and are selling in Mumbai. They are also attempting to sell their produce in the Karnak port area but were taken into custody by the police, claim reports. The women vendors in Dadar are sitting on the street to sell their produce.
There is no arrangement at Airoli in terms of market, state accounts. Businesses are also worried that the maths of the market which has been in Mumbai for so many years, will go awry.
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