Street Businesses

Selling khasta Kachaudi: A street business

Selling khasta Kachaudi: A street business

He once owned a house and had his small flour mill. He lost his money in “house-societies” just like more settled and effluent businessmen do in the share market. Arvind Kumar Jain says that he never dreamt that he would be selling khasta kachaudi from place to place in his ripe age. He has seen around 67 summers but still has to roam around on this bi-cycle to Pragati Maidan, Samta Sthal, and Rajghat etc. Lack of money limits his prospects to open a small shop in the Seelampur area of Delhi where he lives. At the same time,...

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Entrepreneur Ravindra Kumar–money from milk

Entrepreneur Ravindra Kumar–money from milk

Ravindra Kumar sits on a simple bench besides his open stall on which variety of milk products are placed…customers throng this make-shift shop during evening and enjoy the taste of cold beverages, full of health and nutritions. Mango shake, banana shake, milk badam, rabri, lassi–you name and he has it. He starts he operation of his business at 5 in the evening and closes it at 11. By the time he gets up, he ends up with a turn-over of 12,000-15000 INR per day. The average price of product is 20 INR with an exception of milk badam, which...

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Entrepreneur Abdul Rehman–A Balloon Seller

Entrepreneur Abdul Rehman–A Balloon Seller

Have you seen children running behind a balloon-seller in the streets? If you have a family, are you being repeatedly pestered by demands to buy balloons by your own children? Then, you are right there. Balloons are one of those items that have wide range of varieties and offer business opportunities from very micro-level to a full-scale business.

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Vegetable Vendor–Sabjiwala/Sabjiwali

Vegetable Vendor–Sabjiwala/Sabjiwali

Vegetables are one of the most needed and consumed items. Every household uses vegetables on daily basis though some buy them for 2-3 days given that they have the luxury of a refrigerator. But there are millions of people who don’t own a fridge but still buy vegetables. Vegetables are picked from farmers by aggregators or commission agents. These commission agents sell these vegetables on daily basis in marketplaces to vegetable vendors. So, the business-line of vegetables comprises many nodes. Recently, in bigger cities, due to difficulty in getting fresh vegetables, road congestion, office life-style, and shortage of time...

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Roadside Tea vendor: chaiwala/chaiwali

Roadside Tea vendor: chaiwala/chaiwali

Tea vending is one of the most popular street businesses in India. You go to any place in India, be it cities, metros, towns, or even countryside, you will come to notice some people preparing tea (chai). Construction sites, corporate offices, busy marketplaces, countryside roads, highways, colleges canteens, hospitals and what not–these tea vendors pervade the whole land of India. Sugar, brown sugar (un- or partially refined sugar), tea leaves, cardamom, ginger, milk, water are elements that are used to prepare this cuppa. If you have traveled in trains or in buses, you will notice railways stations, bus-stands abuzz...

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Entrepreneur Dhanki: Idol Maker–Moortikaar

Entrepreneur Dhanki: Idol Maker–Moortikaar

Idol making has been a traditional occupation in India and elsewhere also. Molding, casting, dies and what not—all the mechanical processes that you learn in production technology, are practiced by these idol makers.

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