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Kolkata will soon get little Thai flavor in everyday life. It will get a new kind of veggies market, a brand new floating market. It is said that it would be the first such market in the country and the third in Asia. In India, floating market is not a usual trend in plane cities. This started off as a plan to rehabilitate shop owners ended up as a gift for Kolkata in the shape of the first market inside a water body? Well, this is quite amazing.
India’s first floating market is set to open for public in January 2018. Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will inaugurate the Market. Patuli area was transformed into the floating market by the Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA) in collaboration with the municipal corporation.
A huge amount of Rs. 10 crore has been spent to develop the water body. "Urban Development and Municipal Affairs Minister" Firhad Hakim visited Bangkok to attend a seminar and loved the concept about floating market. It will house over 200 shops. The market is 500 meters long and 60 meters wide, and will have no entry fee.
An entire lake has been transformed into a floating market about 24,000 sq. m in area. Each boat would have two shops each. They would be stationary beside the ramps. The market timings are yet to be decided by KMDA, but tentatively been fixed at 5 am to1 pm and 3 pm to 8 pm. The market will be divide into four sections—fish, meat, grocery and vegetable. "These water bodies work as natural drainage systems. In monsoon, rain water used to accumulate here. Now we have revamped the drainage system. We will install aerator machines in the water body to remove the organic waste. We will also cultivate a type of fish in the water body which will consume the inorganic and bio-degradable waste. In addition, our workers will be there to remove plastic bags and other types of waste”, stated the councilor.
