22/07/2015
Krishnarajapuram market has its own history of 150 years. In the olden days the village common land is used for weekly market ‘Santhe’(happening on Tuesday of every week at Krishnarajapuram), which was allowed to function weekly once within the radius of 4-5 kilometers. There were around 4 acres of land for santhe.
The importance of santhe is to support the farmers to market their produce grown in their land at the local level with less transport and other costs involved in marketing, which still exists in some parts of city. The common trading was held weekly one day at different locations on different days, but at present it has become a regular market for hawkers who trade every day on the santhe place. Two major group of hawkers are still hawking in krishanarajapuram from its inception i.e. K.G.F/Bangarapet and Malur hawkers they are involved in trading dry fish, vegetables, pulses and grains etc. In the initial stage only 9 families were hawking in Krishnarajapuram market now it has been increased radically. The Krishnarajapuram panchayat auctions the santhe land to collect the tax from hawkers. The tenderer who takes the tender collects the tax of Rs.2 from each hawker and farmers. The panchayat was providing stone and sheds for the hawkers to protect the goods.
