Cleanliness still a far cry at Vallah veggie market

Tribune News Service

Amritsar, April 19

Unhygienic condition prevails at the wholesale fruit and vegetable market in Vallah. No effort has been made to provide metalled roads here. Refuse can be seen littered everywhere in the market.

Puddles of dirty water with rotten fruit present in them are a breeding-ground for mosquitoes. Traders, their employees, farmers and people visiting the market run the risk of contracting diseases caused by mosquitoes.

Waste, mostly farm produce leftovers, keeps rotting in the market. Their prompt removal is invariably sought, but the authorities concerned seldom spring into action to get these removed.

Arvinder Singh, president, Fruit Merchants’ Welfare Association, said the government must take stock of the prevailing situation at the Vallah market and try to do the needful. Before the Assembly elections, leaders of almost all political parties had announced to lay pucca roads and prove all basic amenities like toilets, potable water and others.

Officials of the local market committee said there was no dearth of funds in raising infrastructure. “No development work can be carried out without the prior approval of the Ministry of Defence as per the Works of Defence Act, 1903, in the Vallah market that falls in the prohibited vicinity of the Army ammunition depot. Once restriction is relaxed then the development would be carried out. They said regular lifting of refuse was carried out. However, on selected days the amount of refuse far exceeded the capacity of garbage pick-up trucks.

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