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Vendors treat spot as ancestral property
Usually, people will offer gifts like money, gold, diamonds, lands, houses and vehicles but the moori (puffed rice) mixture vendors on the Rama Krishna Beach offer the place where they sell it to their sons and sons-in-law as a gift. The place where the vendors engaged in selling moori mixture has become an ancestral property here on the beach area.
Visakhapatnam: Usually, people will offer gifts like money, gold, diamonds, lands, houses and vehicles but the moori (puffed rice) mixture vendors on the Rama Krishna Beach offer the place where they sell it to their sons and sons-in-law as a gift. The place where the vendors engaged in selling moori mixture has become an ancestral property here on the beach area.
Highlights:
- The vendors on RK beach offer the place where they sell it to their sons and sons-in-law as a gift
- Nearly 600 vendors engaged in selling eatables over six-km long beach right from Coastal Battery to Tenneti Park
Moori mixture, one of the mouth-watering street foods, particularly at the beaches in Visakhapatnam. For the last several decades some fishermen engaged in the business and started selling some other eatables like corncobs, ice cream and chat. However, the vendors never change/shift their place from where they are selling the eatables.
Over six-km long beach right from Coastal Battery to Tenneti Park, there are over 600 vendors engaged in selling eatables. There are 75 moori mixture vendors on the sands and the footpaths and majority of them were fishermen. There is no correct information of present vendors that how long they are selling the mixture from the place, but the place has become ancestral property of vendors.
“My grandfather and my father sold the moori mixture from this place and my father gave the place to me. The entire community and other vendors are well-known and aware about boundaries of places and no one dares to shift or change. We are leading the families with this business only. I will hand over this place to my children,” says Suri Apparao, a vendor opposite Kalimatha temple at the RK beach.
Surprisingly, if the person does not have sons, the vendor will give the place as dowry to his sons-in-law. There are about 22 vendors engaged in the business after taking the place from their in-laws. However, there are allegations against vendors that they never allow new person to sell eatables on beaches. When some persons, who tried to sell food items on the Beach Road, some vendors forcibly vacated them from the beach area.
One of the executive members of RK Beach Vendors Association R Simhachalam ruled out the allegations and said they will not allow any new vendor close to their counters. “We are engaged in this business for the past several decades and families are depend on this income only. It is true that the place where we have engaged will never give it to others,” Simhachalam said.
Though the police received some complaints against claiming of place, they pacified the groups without registering any cases.
By VKL Gayatri
