The Ch­agua­nas Bor­ough Cor­po­ra­tion (CBC) has un­der­tak­en an am­bi­tious pro­gramme that would ben­e­fit over 100 en­tre­pre­neurs.

In an ex­clu­sive with Guardian Me­dia, May­or Van­dana Mo­hit said she plans to re-pur­pose un­der­utilised fa­cil­i­ties con­trolled by the CBC to en­sure burgess­es reek the max­i­mum ben­e­fits.

Mo­hit said the coun­cil of the CBC has de­cid­ed to con­vert the carpark at the un­der­utilised Cunu­pia Mar­ket at King Sul­tan Av­enue in­to a mo­bile food court.

Mo­hit said over 100 spaces at the fa­cil­i­ty would be pre­pared so ven­dors can have an ac­tive food court on evenings from 5 pm dai­ly.

She said the area is lo­cat­ed next to the po­lice sta­tion and has a high flow of traf­fic along the South­ern Main Road that con­nects Ch­agua­nas and sev­er­al com­mu­ni­ties straight to Curepe.

Mo­hit said ven­dors would be al­lowed to set up shop and of­fer the pub­lic a wide range of fast foods.

Mo­hit said the idea stemmed from her walk­a­bouts on the cam­paign trail last year when she was ap­proached by a large num­ber of sin­gle moth­ers and un­em­ployed women who were seek­ing jobs.

Mo­hit said while the bor­ough was strapped for cash and was in no po­si­tion to hire any­one that did not stop her from find­ing al­ter­nate so­lu­tions.

Mo­hit said she looked at ways of open­ing up en­tre­pre­neur­ship av­enues for the burgess­es and the goal was to en­sure that per­sons get off the ground and earn a sus­tain­able in­come with the fu­ture prospect of em­ploy­ing oth­ers.

The may­or urged in­ter­est­ed per­sons to get their food badges and reg­is­ter for spots at the Ch­agua­nas Bor­ough Cor­po­ra­tion.

She ex­pects to open this fa­cil­i­ty be­fore the end of the first quar­ter.