The Mumbai Dabbawallahs

Mumbai a city known for its Nightlife, its charm, the beauty of the City, the Local Trains, Street food, Bollywood Life, and many more. It has the highest numbers of Tycoons and Fat-Cat living in it which they run their business and make a profit every single hour. People come from all over Maharashtra to survive living here and have their two-time food.

A true Mumbaikar can go anywhere and settle, but he still will be missing Mumbai there too. Because the City has given him so much the city’s nightlife, here it gives you a delightful feeling. Sitting on the side of Marine drive and experiencing the beauty of Mumbai is the best feeling ever to remember.

The Mumbai Dabbawallahs carry the image of Mumbai and also represents bombays Lifeline, which is incomplete without them.They provide food to several people in the city.

Here the Mumbai Dabbawallah play a prime role in providing the food daily to the employees of the company, where thousands of workers work. The current technology cannot match the spirit of the 126 years old Mumbai lunch delivery service.

If you come to Mumbai and see a man wearing a white cap and carrying lunchboxes the first thing that will appear in your mind would be what is he going to do with all these?

Will he be delivering these to anyone?

These all questions will appear in your mind which is obvious, a person who is new to Mumbai will get these questions in his mind.

All your questions are answered here.
These are the people who work in a large organization where lunch and is supplied every day to the public of Mumbai. This organization was started 126 years back. Mahadeo Havaji Bachche in Dharamshala, Himachal Pradesh, in 1890 stared this organization but later than came to Bombay and started a food supply chain here.

The Dabbawallah in Mumbai earns Rs 20,000 per month where every dabbawallah is an equal stakeholder of the dabbawallah trust.
They are also in numbers so one Dabba is being circulated among 6 people from station to station and then gets delivered to the customer. This is the rule for the organization they are working in.

They work here as they are not much literate, mostly varkari community people work here in Maharashtra. You would ask how do they work so punctually without making any mistake, or being late. Although the average literacy rate is 8th grade they have managed to work here neatly by following all the dressing sense. We should also apply this in our daily life. To your surprise, their management skills and management case studies are also being discussed in universities like Harvard and Stanford. They should be appreciated for these.

With the technology being improving steadily, they have also led here by introducing their app, you can order from their website, even through SMS.

3,000,00 dabbas are delivered every day in just 6 hours. Most importantly they also have got the six sigmas docile. They have only got 20 seconds to load and unload the dabbas from the local train which they do very easily. The work they are doing is astonishing.

The dabbawallahs in Mumbai are doing a great job.

If you get a chance to see these people working someday, just appreciate their efforts.