H.S.C and S.S.C Composition A VILLAGE MARKET

A VILLAGE MARKET

A village market is a place where daily necessary things are bought and sold. It is known as hat. It is a useful buying and selling centre for the villagers.It usually sits by the side of a river, a canal, a bus stand or under a banyan tree.

There are two kinds of village market- the daily market and the weekly market. Daily market is called bazaar. It sits every morning. The weekly market is called hat. It sits once or twice in a week. It sits in the afternoon and breaks up by the evening. People from distant places come to the market to sell or to buy goods.

A village market has three parts- open space temporary sheds and permanent sheds. In the open space the sellers sit in rows. Here milk, fruit, betels, vegetables, fish etc are sold. Grocers, cloth dealers tailors, potters have permanent shops. There are fish corner, vegetables corner and rice corner. The sellers in each corner sit in lines. Most of the shops are temporary. Only the stationary shops are permanent. The fish market is the most noisy place. There is also a particular place where cows and goats are sold. Now –a- days tea stalls are seen in the village market. People from distant places come to a village market. They carry their goods in their heads. At present rickshaws and vans also carry goods. Many boats are seen on the banks of the river beside a village market. The businessmen is known as ‘Beparis’ buy goods like jute, vegetables, rice, pulse and carry them to the famous business centres.A village market is part and parcel  of village life. It serves as the recreational  centre also. Village life will come to a stand still without a village market.