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DNCC's wholesale market to be modeled on Beijing wholesale raw market

Mayor Md. Atiqul Islam said this. He said, DNCC's market will be created with the concept from Beijing's wholesale market. We are discussing with the market authorities here, they will share the design with us. DNCC's wholesale market will follow Beijing's model.

The DNCC mayor said this after visiting Sinfarti Market, a large raw market in Beijing, the capital of China, at noon local time on Monday. 80% of Beijing residents' food is supplied from this wholesale market.

Atiqul Islam said that many traders in Beijing used to shop on the sidewalk. From there, following the example set by Sinferti Market in Beijing, it will be possible to have a wholesale market in DNCC just like Beijing.

Stating that there will be two wholesale markets in Dhaka, the mayor said that there will be two wholesale markets in Dhaka as per Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's instructions. One will be in Dhaka North, the other in Dhaka South. After the wholesale market, no goods truck can enter Dhaka. If this can be done, the traffic (traffic jam) of Dhaka city will be reduced a lot.

DNCC Mayor said that everyone's cooperation is needed to beautify Dhaka city, our caravan market will be moved to the DNCC market in Gabtali and another part will be done in Jatrabari. Before that we need to change our mindset. We have made the master plan of where the vegetable market, meat market, fish market will be after taking the gabatli through discussion with those who are in the caravan market. According to the master plan, the market will be removed from Caravan Bazaar in stages. There will be challenges, but everyone's cooperation is needed to make the city beautiful.