Thakkar Bappa Colony
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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.
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[edit] History
Originally This place was mostly a residential area of Marathi speaking people. There were few people of Regar community who migrated from Rajasthan and other parts of India around 1950. Their main occupation was shoes manufacturing at home. In the late seventies of 20th century some families of Jeenagar community also migrated here from Rajasthan 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 and India.
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 own Shoe 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.
[edit] Geography
It is located in Chembur, India
[edit] Demographics
The Marathi speaking people have slowly moved to other parts of Mumbai after selling their residential areas to Marwari speaking people and today there are around 90% of people who's mother tongue is Rajasthani. People work more than 12 to 14 hours a day for manufacturing shoes. They live in the same place where they produce shoes.
[edit] Railway station
The nearest railway station is Chembur, Kurla or Tilak Nagar.
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| Next station south: Tilak Nagar |
Mumbai suburban railway : Harbour Railway (Harbour Line) | Next station north: Govandi |
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| Stop No: 13 | KM from starting: 18 | Platforms: 2 | ||
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