PESHAWAR, May 5: Vegetable traders, farmers and Nazims of Chamkani Union Council have welcomed the MMA government's decision to stop the shifting of Subzi Mandi from Inqilab Road and dissolution of a market committee.

During a protest meeting held at the residence of Sartaj Khan, a councillor of the local union council, leaders of farmers and vegetable traders criticized old committee of the Subzi Mandi for taking what they alleged huge amounts of money from vegetable traders with promises to allot them shops in the market.

But, they alleged, the committee leaders, after taking Rs10 million from the traders, did not provide them with allotment letters and instead planned to shift the Subzi Mandi from the government property on the Inqilab Road to a private land owned by a few influential people.

They demanded that the government initiate an enquiry into tax collection by the old management of Subzi Mandi from vegetable traders as they had shown less amount in tax collection accounts.