Mid-Day Impact | Mumbai: Church cuts Bandra fair rents by 30 per cent

Updated On: 14 August, 2024 06:45 AM IST | Mumbai | Prajakta Kasale

While church slashes Mount Mary stall rents following this paper’s front-page report, stall owners are still not a happy lot

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The church allows around 150 stalls to sell candles, flowers, food, toys and artificial jewellery every year during the weeklong fair. File pic

The controversy surrounding the rent for operating stalls outside Mount Mary church during the Bandra fair refuses to die down. Though the church has offered to lower the rent by 20 to 33 per cent, long-time stallholders are still holding out. The latter didn’t allow the forms necessary for running stalls to be distributed for the third consecutive day. They demanded that the old system for allocation of stalls and rent be followed.

Stall owners protesting against the proposed rent hike and tendering system at the Basilica of Our Lady of the Mount on August 11