kolkata restoration of a patch of green in congested central kolkata that turned grey about a decade ago when kmc relocated shops from the college street market to the park will begin after durga puja assuring locals of vacating the park that became a market after 900 stalls were erected in 2003 kmc member mayorincouncil market amiruddin bobby said work was being expedited so that the last lot of 122 shop owners could return to college street market either before puja or shortly after itthe marketcumoffice complex christened barna parichay was originally scheduled to be completed in fourfive years but has been in the making for 16 years now even when the 122 shops return it will do so to only a section of the mammoth building much of is still incomplete and may take years to finish a cloud hangs over the project due to the developers poor financial status as well as the slump in the market that has made it difficult to either sell or rent out the massive space on friday bobby handed over notional keys to the 122 hardware shops that are still operating out of marcus square we expect to complete the construction of the section of the market where these shops will be accommodated within a month the owners should be able to resume business from their new store before puja he saidwith this phase marking the return of all shops barring the flower stalls uncertainty over their fate and years of misery trying to do business from marcus square comes to an end it will be a huge relief to shift back to this market we have barely managed to survive at marcus square as there were hardly any customers said rc jaiswal a hardware shop owner though amiruddin vouched the block a of the market is complete and fully operational many shops are still unoccupied completing the market remains a herculian task as block b is incomplete and block c is a skeletal structure