Iconic food street at V V Puram suffers business blues amid roadwork

Businesses at VV Puram’s famous food street, called ‘thindi beedi’, are grappling with significant losses due to delays in the BBMP’s road construction.

Heaps of debris and concrete blocks are strewn along the sides of the iconic 200-metre-long, five-metre-wide street, as roadworks, initially scheduled to commence in December 2022, were pushed back due to the assembly elections in May.

While the ‘thindi beedi’ continues to lure visitors, shop owners say things are not the same. They lament that the roadworks have not been executed as planned. The BBMP has just widened the road, but irregular water supply and rising dust levels are affecting their operations.