Deccan Herald

Mangalore, Jul 28: From a few days now, Udupi residents are talking about the problems pertaining to the market, which has not yet been solved.

To make things easier for the buyers and the sellers, a market building was built and Sunday shandy were started in Adi Udupi. In spite of this, the Wednesday shandy or the ‘budavara santhe’ what has been going on in Adi Udupi is still functional and is the cause of problem for most.

Though the problems attached to this Adi Udupi Budavara Santhe is not new, during rainy season, the entire region ceases to be a market and sounds and smells more like a dump yard where the buyers and sellers do their brisk trade inevitably. Though there is a market building, these vendors do not use it.

 But vendors allege that no attempts have been made to convince the vendors to use the market as according to the rule proper facilities should be provided so that a vendor sells and the buyer buys the commodities without any problem.

But scenes in Adi Udupi is quite different. The market building is built in four sections. There is an empty space between two sections where the buyers are supposed to stand and buy the vegetables.
This empty space does not have a ceiling and with this the entire idea of the market building has been dumped by the customers as they feel it is only vendor friendly set up.

With the customers not coming to the market the vendors too have opted to sit in the APMC premises every season.
These vendors believe that their business will drop if they keep changing their area. With this logic neither are the vendors ready to leave this place nor have they been asked to do so.

On one side there is a vendor friendly market and on the other hand there is APMC administrative board who are happy with the stand of the vendors as all they need is that by hook or by crook the market has to function.

There is not even a single person who is working towards putting this market to its original use. Ultimately this shandy still awaits buyers and sellers.