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Written by Atikh RashidAdvertisingFive years after they were forced to vacate the Ganesh Peth market building by the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC ), fishmongers in the city’s largest fish market continue to sell their wares on a patch of land next to an open and smelly nullah in Ganesh Peth. Shailesh Pradhan, a buyer who visited the market on Friday, said he had come there after a long time and was shocked at the poor condition of the once popular fish market. “When I was a child, I used to buy fish with my father from the Ganesh Peth market. We were told that the revamp of the market will only take one-and-a-half years,” said Nagesh Pardeshi, a fish trader. Today, when I visited the market after several years, I wasn’t sure if I should buy fish from here,” said Pradhan..