This is the market that was at Muchkhowa in city some five years back. It was shifted to this new site in 2012 in order to ease traffic congestion at Muchkhowa. The administration did cite the interests of people also as one of the reasons behind the shifting of the market at that time. Do the wholesale traders have the facilities they need for smooth conduct of their business at the new site? Even after five years of their shifting to the new site, the market has no permanent sheds of its own. The traders have to do business under tents in all weathers. They have to bear the brunt of scorching heat as well as that of monsoon rains. The market looks like a collection of makeshift camps. Listen to Dhruba Pathak, the general secretary of the Vegetable and Fruit Wholesale Market Association, in his talks with this reporter. Pathak said: “Each of the traders doing business here has to pay Rs 1,000 per month as rent. As many as 310 traders are doing business here. However, there is no facility for drinking water at the market. We continue to raise our demands before the government. However, our demands fall on deaf ears of powers that be at Dispur. We want identity cards for each and every trader from the government that should also provide us all facilities.”