Sadar Bazaar, Delhi

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Sadar Bazaar (Delhi)
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Sadar Bazaar (Delhi)
Location in Delhi, India
Coordinates: 28°39′32″N77°13′00″E / 28.658813°N 77.216742°E / 28.658813; 77.216742
CountryFlag of India.svg  India
State Delhi
District Central Delhi
Languages
 • Official Hindi, English
Time zone UTC+5:30 (IST)
PIN
110006
Lok Sabha constituency Chandni Chowk
Vidhan Sabha constituency Sadar Bazar
Civic agency MCD

Sadar Bazaar is a wholesale market in Old Delhi, Delhi, India. [1]

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Like other major markets of Old Delhi, this market is very crowded and buzzes with activity. Although it is primarily a wholesale market, it also caters to occasional retail buyers. Owing to the sheer volumes that are traded here every day, a visit to the market can be termed sensory overload. In addition to being a market for traders, Sadar Bazaar is a assembly constituency. Sadar Bazar is the largest wholesale market in Asia & India.[ citation needed ] Business worth of ₹300crore is done on daily basis in the market.[ citation needed ]

History

Paharganj, also referred as Shahganj or King's ganj or market place during Mughal era, [2] gets its present name 'Paharganj', literally meaning Hilly neighbourhood, owing to its proximity to the Raisina Hill, where the Rashtrapati Bhavan stand today. Till, 1857, neighbourhoods like Paharganj, Kishenganj, and Pahari Dhiraj, were separate pockets which in the following years grew and merged, for example Pahari Dhiraj merged into Sadar Bazaar. [3]

Location and transportation

Sadar Bazaar is located on the western side of Khari Baoli street. It is connected to the rest of the city via buses (closest station is Kashmere Gate ISBT), auto-rickshaws and trains (closest metro station is Tis Hazari Metro Station). [4]

The area also has a railway station named Delhi Sadar Bazar (Code: DSB). It is 1 km (0.62 mi) from New Delhi railway station and trains take about 9 to 15 minutes to reach there. All the trains that stop here are either EMUs, MEMUs or passenger trains consisting of General class seating arrangements. As of 2015, the rail ticket fare for this leg is ₹ 5. [5]

Commodities

Sadar Bazaar consists of numerous smaller markets, including Pratap market, Swadeshi market and Teliwara or Timber market. [4] The market, as a whole, not only deals in household goods, but also in various other items such as toys, imitation jewellery and stationery. It has become a den of counterfeit products of many multi-national companies, FMCG products and especially cosmetic goods of deceptively similar character. [6] It was thus listed as a "notorious market" by the USTR in 2015 for selling counterfeit consumer goods and cosmetics. [7]

Traders and shoppers have access to authentic Indian food, including delicacies deep-fried in ghee (clarified butter) and mithai (traditional sweets) of various kinds. The lanes are plenty and narrow, lined with shops selling imported goods, clothing, shoes and leather items, electronic and consumer goods, and more. [4] The market, even more so than the rest of the city, is very congested.

Concerns

Considered by some to be the biggest wholesale market in Asia, accounts from local traders indicate that Sadar Bazaar suffers from over-congestion of stalls, power cuts, lack of sanitation facilities, improper maintenance of roads and frequent traffic jams. [8]

Despite being chaotic, Sadar Bazaar remains a tourist attraction. [9] [10]

Swadeshi Market

Swadeshi Market in Sadar Bazaar is famous for artificial jewellery, toys, gifts item, and household plastics. Inside Sadar Bazaar, every lane is having its local association and having shops of different goods.

Administration and politics

Federation of Sadar Bazar Traders Association (Regd.) is the parental organisation of all the major trade associations of Sadar Bazaar. [11]

Sadar Bazaar is part of the Sadar-Paharganj constituency, one of the twelve administrative zones of Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD). [12] As of 2015, this constituency is represented by Som Dutt of the Aam Aadmi Party. [13] Prior to Dutt, this Vidhan Sabha constituency was represented by Rajesh Jain of the Indian National Congress (INC). [14] Previously a parliamentary constituency, it is now[ when? ] a part of Chandni Chowk parliamentary constituency represented by Harsh Vardhan of the BJP.[ citation needed ]

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  7. ↑ "2015 Out of Cycle Review of Notorious Markets" (PDF). Office of the United States Trade Representative. December 2015. Archived (PDF) from the original on 17 October 2020. Retrieved 10 January 2021.
  8. ↑ Gulati, Sumegha (24 November 2011). "Asia's biggest wholesale market may also be its most neglected: Traders". The Indian Express Archive. Retrieved 3 May 2015.
  9. ↑ Dutt, Nabanita (1 November 2010). To North India with Love: A Travel Guide for the Connoisseur. ThingsAsian Press. p. 17. ISBN   978-1-934159-07-1.
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