After years of street-side chaos and neglect, Nagpur is finally getting its first fully functional, hygienic fish market — at Bhandewadi, under the Pradhan Mantri Matsya Sampada Yojana (PMMSY).
The Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) has never operated an active fish market, despite spending ₹3 crore in 2014 on a state-of-the-art facility at Mangalwari. Equipped with cold storage, auction halls, and 108 stalls, that market was rejected by vendors over high deposits, cramped stalls, and poor footfall. It has sat idle for over a decade and is now undergoing ₹65 lakh worth of repairs — but without any visible vendor interest.
Today, fish trade still thrives in congested hotspots like Mayo Hospital, Dharampeth, Budhwar Bazaar, and Mankapur Square — with no hygiene, cold storage, or proper drainage.
Bhandewadi aims to change that. Rising on reclaimed land from the city’s dumping ground, the new market will offer modern stalls, cold storage, clean water, drainage, sanitation, auction space, and administrative offices. It will specifically cater to East and South Nagpur vendors, who have long operated in makeshift, unhygienic spaces.
Unlike the Mangalwari debacle, this project is backed by strict project management, professional planning, and milestone-based execution.
If delivered as planned, Bhandewadi will erase a decade of missteps and give Nagpur its first clean, organised fish market — turning a symbol of waste into a model of smart urban infrastructure
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