Coimbatore Corporation writes to CMAon auctioning shops near T.K. Market
The Hindu
They were built to accommodate traders evicted from Then Vadal Street
Unable to find a way to auction the shops it had built in a yard west of T.K. Market, the Coimbatore Corporation has written to the Commissioner of Municipal Administration (CMA) for a solution.
Sources said the Corporation was forced to write to the CMA as two groups of traders were making claim to the 80-plus shops the civic body had built at the yard. One group of traders wanted preferential treatment in allotment of the shops and the other was for open auction.
The issue started sometime in June 2020 after the Corporation, during the COVID-19 lockdown, demolished 88 makeshift shops on Then Vadal Street, east of the T.K. Market. This was after a court order directing the civic body to remove the shops to free the street of encroachments.