Traders’ associations oppose public sale bid for stalls at Baliyatra

By Express News Service

CUTTACK: Resentment is brewing among the many distributors wishing to arrange stalls at Baliyatra right here, one of many greatest commerce truthful of the State scheduled to be held from November 8 to 14, because the administration began the method for allocation of plots by way of public sale from Saturday. 

Different enterprise organisations resembling All Odisha Tent and Supplier Owners’ Association, Cuttack Cloth and Light Suppliers Association, Doli Mahasangha, Baliyatra Byabasai Sangha, Meena Bazar Mahasangha have united beneath the banner of Baliyatra Byabasai Milita Manch and are opposing the transfer of allocating plots by way of public sale. 

The Manch which has submitted a petition to Cuttack Collector has additionally despatched copies of the petition to Prime Minister, Chief Minister, 5T Secretary, native Puja committees and Cuttack Mahanagar Shanti Committee demanding abolition of the public sale course of and adopting of conventional course of for plot allocation to distributors. 

In the petition, the Manch has acknowledged that Baliyatra, the competition central to the town’s tradition and custom, is being noticed for over 1,000 years in Cuttack, for which the State authorities has accorded state-level competition standing to it.However, the transfer of the administration for allocating plots by way of public sale has tarnished the custom of the Baliyatra competition, the petition added. 

The Manch has alleged that auctioning of plots wouldn’t solely usher in felony actions but additionally deprive the small distributors, people who’ve been relying upon their hereditary career like artisans of Shila-Chaki, Chhanchuni, Kula-Bainsia and so forth from collaborating within the commerce truthful. 

Generally, individuals go to Baliyatra to buy commodities at low worth. “However, allotment of plots through auction will facilitate mafia, big and affluent traders in availing plots and selling their product at high price while the small and individual traders will not able to participate in the annual trade fair which will be held after a gap of two years,” stated Manoranjan Sahoo, convener of the Manch which has threatened to boycott Baliyatra.

CUTTACK: Resentment is brewing among the many distributors wishing to arrange stalls at Baliyatra right here, one of many greatest commerce truthful of the State scheduled to be held from November 8 to 14, because the administration began the method for allocation of plots by way of public sale from Saturday. 

Different enterprise organisations resembling All Odisha Tent and Supplier Owners’ Association, Cuttack Cloth and Light Suppliers Association, Doli Mahasangha, Baliyatra Byabasai Sangha, Meena Bazar Mahasangha have united beneath the banner of Baliyatra Byabasai Milita Manch and are opposing the transfer of allocating plots by way of public sale. 

The Manch which has submitted a petition to Cuttack Collector has additionally despatched copies of the petition to Prime Minister, Chief Minister, 5T Secretary, native Puja committees and Cuttack Mahanagar Shanti Committee demanding abolition of the public sale course of and adopting of conventional course of for plot allocation to distributors. 

In the petition, the Manch has acknowledged that Baliyatra, the competition central to the town’s tradition and custom, is being noticed for over 1,000 years in Cuttack, for which the State authorities has accorded state-level competition standing to it.However, the transfer of the administration for allocating plots by way of public sale has tarnished the custom of the Baliyatra competition, the petition added. 

The Manch has alleged that auctioning of plots wouldn’t solely usher in felony actions but additionally deprive the small distributors, people who’ve been relying upon their hereditary career like artisans of Shila-Chaki, Chhanchuni, Kula-Bainsia and so forth from collaborating within the commerce truthful. 

Generally, individuals go to Baliyatra to buy commodities at low worth. “However, allotment of plots through auction will facilitate mafia, big and affluent traders in availing plots and selling their product at high price while the small and individual traders will not able to participate in the annual trade fair which will be held after a gap of two years,” stated Manoranjan Sahoo, convener of the Manch which has threatened to boycott Baliyatra.