- Thakkar Bappa Colony
Thakkar Bappa Colony is a residential and commercial area of suburb
Chembur ,Mumbai . It is most famous for it's shoes market which are produced by people who live and work here.History
Originally This place was mostly a residential area of
Marathi speaking people. There were few people ofRegar community who migrated fromRajasthan and other parts of India around 1950. Their main occupation was shoes manufacturing at home. In the late seventies of 20th century some families ofJeenagar community also migrated here fromRajasthan and Punjab. Their sole occupation was also manufacturing of shoes.Today there are about 100 thousand people who belong to these two communities who have settled in Thakkar Bappa Colony and area surrounding to it. Their daily work consists of manufacturing shoes and distributing the same to other parts of
Mumbai andIndia .Earlier People were selling their shoes to a bigger wholesale market in some parts of
Mumbai but since last 20 years few of them have opened their ownShoe Shops and today Thakkar Bappa Colony boasts of more than a hundred such shops where you could buy handmade shoes of hundreds of different varieties and range.Geography
It is located in
Chembur ,India Demographics
The
Marathi speaking people have slowly moved to other parts of Mumbai after selling their residential areas toMarwari speaking people and today there are around 90% of people who's mother tongue isRajasthani . People work more than 12 to 14 hours a day for manufacturing shoes. They live in the same place where they produce shoes.Railway station
The nearest railway station is
Chembur ,Kurla or Tilak Nagar.External links
* [http://anushaktinagar.googlepages.com/busandtraintimings CST/Panvel Train timetable]
Trivia
ee also
*
Anushakti Nagar
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