Chennai rain withhold vendors business

 Chennai heavy and not resting rain everyone in the cities.  Those who  own places cannot  sell  those who  want to  buy  has nothing  to  spend on. 

“This stock is new but everyone complains it expensive” Sagetha ma said.  She own a local shop  in Karipathur whre she vendors in vegetable.  She explained thatall vegetable has inclined with more than 30% ,  tomatoes which were Rs,30.00  a kg are now sold at  Rs, 100:00. 

It a big challenge for her as well, the customers has to compromise she cannot afford to  lower her price to  because the wholesale price has  gone to  high in an  eye blink. 

Chennai city  is still  flooded,  to  an extend that  vendors with  no  shopping  area have no space to  sell  their items.  In facts, it is not only the space is occupied  which is problem but even customers are locked up in their houses.  The movement of people has become extremely less which has affected the demand of side road vendors. 

“No one will go in the rain to look for a side road fruit” Mr. Sukhumi   who drove a rickshaw from Navollur to neighbour place said he did not have stock for three weeks now.  He added that even if he has there is no way he could sell his items because of the unpredictable rain and the water around the roads.

“We find it hard to survive, our families depend on this business” Mr Sukhumi   said disillusioned.  He further stated that it hard to also make money for a new stock when one has been in a loss for such a period of time. 

To answers whether he had raised the issues with local  authorities/institution helping floods victims he said ,  so  far his  family  like few other had receive food but  it is no  enough for a  man livings. 

 For three weeks in a raw, the rain continues pouring robbing some off their markets while providing others with the best weather of Chennai city.