West Bengal's first fair price vegetable market coming up in Behala

KOLKATA: After fair price ration shops its now going to be a fair price vegetable market all together in Bengal. Thanks to chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s initiative to help the common people, Kolkata is about to get its first fair price vegetable market that is coming up at Behala. Investments to the tune of Rs 30 lakh has been spent on the project already.

This comes after the huge success of her concepts of fair price medicine shops and diagnostic centres, and the temporary fair price stalls for selling potatoes and other vegetables.

The market is being set up by the State’s Agricultural Marketing Department, with the assistance of Kolkata Municipal Corporation. It would be located on a 7-8 cottahs parcel of land on Rajani Mukherjee Road in ward number 118.

The market would stock up vegetables, fish, eggs and meat. The place would house forty one shops. 18 slabs for fish and small vegetable-sellers have also been built.