Modern Vegetable Market to come up in Chennai

A state-of-the-art vegetable market, equipped with all amenities to preserve the produce under one roof, would come up at a cost of Rs. 85 crore on a 27-acre land situated in between the integrated bus stand, Maatuthavani, and the wholesale flower market here, said Union Minister for Chemicals and Fertilizers M.K. Alagiri on Monday.

To be over by 2012

Mr. Alagiri said in a statement and added that in the first phase Rs. 30 crore would be sanctioned with which all preliminary works would commence soon. By 2012 March, the project would be completed.

The balance of Rs. 55 crores too would be released at appropriate stages.