10. Conclusion

10.Conclusion

 The research findings resonates our hypothesis by a good margin about the problem faced by the users of the market area.  The research also made us aware about some surprising findings like the ease with which majority of the users find to enter the market area and the ease with which they find an auto for the commute again indicating that the major daily users were local bunch.  Majority of the users were used to the claustrum and the congestion due to overcrowdedness as it would have been quite common in any other market in any other state of India barring some exceptions of northeast and some other sparsely populated states.  The market area was established way back during the development of

Bhubaneswar and thus at present it has so become so complex and integrated with the system that it won't be feasible to redesign it in near future.  The aspect of future expansion and the need to accommodate the growing population of a smart city wasn’t considered while designing the market area and thus the problem arose.  The tremendous lack of space even for general pedestrians calls for the vertical development of the market area so as to shift some shops higher up to reduce ground coverage or encroachment.  The reaction of BDA on the early encroachment, in which they tried to integrate the hawkers into the market area rather than eradicating them, has resulted into this highly crowded situation which in turn affects the traffic and the main road.

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