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With the shop gone, I had started a business of supplying stocks to traders at Bagri Market. Only officials of KMC’s building and conservancy department have been allowed to enter to oversee the work on removing the rubble. KOLKATA: Displaced Bagri Market traders have found refuge at the next-door Amartolla Lane market, but most of them are hoping it remains just a temporary shelter and not, in any way, an ominous indication of an uncertain future.Amartolla Lane market (popularly known as Lal Kothi) had suffered a fire accident on February 27 last year, eerily similar to the one at Bagri Market. “I had a cosmetics shop at the building on the first floor and the fire damaged everything. Once the rubble is removed, demolition workers can pull down the unstable portions and allow KMC officials to run X- ray tests on the building to assess its stability..