Hyderabad, Feb. 5 -- Traders in Hyderabad's Old City are demanding the traffic and local law & order police to decide and designate public parking places for visitors to the markets in the Hijri calendar months of Shabaan and Ramzan.

Hectic business activity is noticed in the markets in the older parts of the city in the two months. To avoid the Ramzan shopping rush and spend more time praying, several families shop before the advent of the holy month for the Muslim community.

With barely 25 days left for the Ramzan to begin, Hyderabad traders witness shoppers dropping to purchase merchandise for the month. Every year, there is a lot of criticism from several quarters regarding inadequate parking space for shoppers in the markets of Old...