With a view to facilitating the trading of forest produce, fruits, vegetables and food grains in one sprawling premises, a process took off of making an ideal fruits, vegetables and food grain mandi.
New massive mandi would come up in a Kopaguda village on 25 acers of land and the cost of this new mandi is estimated to be `22 crore, Said mandi secretary Rajesh Verma.
Verma further elaborated that the construction of the proposed new Mandi would be completed in total of three phases.
Since the new proposed mandi site situated so close to the Railway station, transporting the fruits, vegetables and food grains to the neighbouring states would be much easier and will help promote the trade between the states also, said Verma.
Adarsh mandi is now started taking shape as almost ten km from the city, village Kopaguda is seen bustling with the activities since on allotted mandi site construction of the boundary wall is also started with worth `42 lakhs informed joint director of mandi board K R Banjare. He also said that now in first phase of construction, the process of leveling would be started in some places on the new mandi site. Banjare said that with the augmentation of the trade with the help of scheme of the government not only traders and the farmers but Mandi employee will also benefited with all sorts of facilities.
As of now Mandi takes place in only 5 acres of land seems too cramped to be discharged all mandi functions smoothly, Banjare said.