Lajpat Nagar Central Market

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An old market in Delhi. Lajpat Nagar has a Haldiram's restaurant. It is named in honor of Lala Lajpat Rai.It's stores stock a large ,comprehensive collection of ready -to -wear clothing as well as fabric,laces,buttons and many other stitching supplies.It even features some of New Delhi's ritziest home furnishings stores.A quaint fixture are the Tibetan ladies that sell freshly steamed vegetable dumplings called "momos"----steamed right in front of you in cane basket contraptions. It's well connected with the new fly-overs with other parts of Delhi. Its mostly dominated by Punjabi immigrants from Pakistan after partition. It's considered as one of the best places to get everything under one roof as far as shopping is concerned. Most of the residential areas surrounding it have become commercialised and you will find shops and offices on the ground floor and basements of the houses. Lajpat Nagar 3 on the ring road has some of the swankiest fashion stores and electronic showrooms in South Delhi. It has sadly become over congested and is getting run for the money from the ansal plaza mall,etc. plus new mall projects could spell the end of this market.

Also a lot of demolitions have helped to reduce the congestion in this market. However the survival of this market in its present form are limited as fresh supreme court directives have come in, to remove encroachments etc.