| MARKETS AND COMMERCIAL COMPLEXES: | ||
| There is one vegetable market and a fish market in the this town. The fish market has been leased out where the vegetable market has not been leased out and the charges are collected through the trust. | ||
| There is daily shandy in the Town, which belongs to Alanduraiappar Devasthanam. A tax of 15% from the income should be paid to the Municipality. This tax has not been paid from 1986-87.Kittappa commercial complex comprises of 11 shops , Co-optex mart in ground floor and central telephone exchange in first floor it is owned and maintained by the Municipality. | ||
| In the town “Thula festival” or “Kuda Mulukku festival” is one of the important festival being celebrated during December every year on the banks of river Cauvery that attracts people within and out side the town. This festival is conducted for 9 days in the month (Ippasi month) that starts from Mayuranathar temple | ||
| During the festival Municipality engage the service of temporary sanitary workers to carryout essential services to public. The road side shops are given for rent during this festival and Municipality earned a revenue of Rs.5,11,000 in the year 2004-05. | ||
| There is one fish market and one vegetable market in the town. Municipality has given these market on lease Mayiladuthurai Municipality towns a commercial complex that earns an annual income of about Rs.3 lakhs. | ||
The commercial activity in Mayiladuthurai town is well established. There are weekly markets, Daily markets and an Uzhavar Sandhai functioning at present. Along the major roads are the commercial areas that involve both whole sale and retail trading. Apart from these, there are vegetable and flower markets from where goods are exported to other cities. The town is famous for special variety of Mangos called “Pathiri” taken from surrounding villages are transported to other places from the town. The study reveals that milk production around the town are one of the activity to be considered for economic development of the town.
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