My Neighborhood Watch #31 - Reporting Events Around us

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It's in the vicinity of Behala main market including an AC mall. The majority of shops are selling Garments, Cosmetics, bedding, watches, electronics house hold consumer durables, confectionery and bakery, sweet Shop, saree and blouse, Jwellery and artificial ornaments, tailor & outfits and others. One can spend half a day very cosily. This place is called Tram Depo Market. This is the oldest and largest market of South 24 parganas in West Bengal on Diamond Harbour Road. This market observes weekly off on Thursday. I visited the place yesterday.

So the place become Haven for hawkers on every Thursday. Most of the people sales used and old stock clothing and garments. Price is very cheap and negotiable. Mainly buyers are resellers as well as consumers. Hawkers also buy used clothes from us at a through way price.

The sales start at 12 noon for five to six hours. Hawkers and buyers both come from the nearby districts.

In India the grey market trade contribute 7% of GDP. According to a survey there are 11.9 million hawkers in India. Women constitute majority of them. Average turnover of Indian street vendors is 80 crores per day.

A major source of material of them is Burrabazar wholesale market. They also buy from Howrah Mangla Haat and Harisha Haat. For wholesale used material Liberty Market on CR Avenue is famous.

During pandemic these people suffered highest. There is scheme to rehabilitate them which is just INR 10000 as loan to be returned.

There's always some traffic congestion due to road blocked and altercation with traffic police takes place. They also polluted with leftover plastic and other packages.

Apart from them there are parmanent hawkers who encroached footpath for pedestrians. They don't pay any taxes but occupied tax payers pavement. They constitute most militant movements to establish their encroachment of the pavement as legal.