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By: Faiza Otho
Cloth Market is one of the ancient markets of Hyderabad which is on the busiest road near City College.
It has been since years when Mohammad Jabbar opened his fancy dress shop in this market. “I have worked in this market since 13 years. Firstly, I rented this shop but later when my business flourished than I owned this shop.” said Jabbar.
Jabbar settled with his family in a house near the market. His family consisted of wife and 5 children for whom he worked day and night.
The road of the market is one of the busiest roads in the city. It is almost blocked by donkey carts and vehicles. The main reasons of road blockage in this area are the choked sewerage system which causes accumulation of dirty water on the road and other is the market stalls which occupied most of the road. People broken the traffic laws and drove their vehicles on the one way route and also the law college is situated at that road which resulted increase in hectic traffic jam during the college off timing. These problems need the attention of concerned authorities.
“People avoid coming in this market because it lacks the basic facilities like improper structure of market and road blockage.” said Jabbar
The shops and stalls run parallel along the market facing each other and a straight path for customers to walk in it.
In front of jabbar’s shop there is a stall of 27 years old young man Tariq who sell different accessories ranging from Rs.20 to Rs.80.
“I have opened my stall two years ago; this market is much cheaper for stall opening than other markets like Resham bazaar or Latifabad market.” Tariq explained.
People from all the different classes of society come to visit cloth market to buy things according to their income and necessity. It is the most popular haunt for bargain hunters. There is always a huge crowd of women busy in shopping. The cut piece shops are famous there. Many of the high quality fabrics which having little defect in it are sold here as cut piece in low prices. Bargaining is the key to getting a good price; insist on some percent discount but if your skills are sharp you could find a 50 percent knock down is within reach.
“I come to visit this market with my daughters to buy cloth because here the good quality cloth is present at much cheaper rates than in resham bazaar.” said Parveen bibi, one of the customers in market.
No matter how ancient market it is, still popular for fabrics among the citizens of Hyderabad.
[The writer is student of (MC-2k12)Mass Comm Department University of Sindh. Faiza wrote this feature in 2014 as part of practical work done under supervision of renowned journalist Sir Sohail Sangi] . Later this was also published in http://www.thesindhtimes.com/blogs/cloth-market-hyderabad/
Cloth Market is one of the ancient markets of Hyderabad which is on the busiest road near City College.
It has been since years when Mohammad Jabbar opened his fancy dress shop in this market. “I have worked in this market since 13 years. Firstly, I rented this shop but later when my business flourished than I owned this shop.” said Jabbar.
Jabbar settled with his family in a house near the market. His family consisted of wife and 5 children for whom he worked day and night.
The road of the market is one of the busiest roads in the city. It is almost blocked by donkey carts and vehicles. The main reasons of road blockage in this area are the choked sewerage system which causes accumulation of dirty water on the road and other is the market stalls which occupied most of the road. People broken the traffic laws and drove their vehicles on the one way route and also the law college is situated at that road which resulted increase in hectic traffic jam during the college off timing. These problems need the attention of concerned authorities.
“People avoid coming in this market because it lacks the basic facilities like improper structure of market and road blockage.” said Jabbar
The shops and stalls run parallel along the market facing each other and a straight path for customers to walk in it.
In front of jabbar’s shop there is a stall of 27 years old young man Tariq who sell different accessories ranging from Rs.20 to Rs.80.
“I have opened my stall two years ago; this market is much cheaper for stall opening than other markets like Resham bazaar or Latifabad market.” Tariq explained.
People from all the different classes of society come to visit cloth market to buy things according to their income and necessity. It is the most popular haunt for bargain hunters. There is always a huge crowd of women busy in shopping. The cut piece shops are famous there. Many of the high quality fabrics which having little defect in it are sold here as cut piece in low prices. Bargaining is the key to getting a good price; insist on some percent discount but if your skills are sharp you could find a 50 percent knock down is within reach.
“I come to visit this market with my daughters to buy cloth because here the good quality cloth is present at much cheaper rates than in resham bazaar.” said Parveen bibi, one of the customers in market.
No matter how ancient market it is, still popular for fabrics among the citizens of Hyderabad.
[The writer is student of (MC-2k12)Mass Comm Department University of Sindh. Faiza wrote this feature in 2014 as part of practical work done under supervision of renowned journalist Sir Sohail Sangi] . Later this was also published in http://www.thesindhtimes.com/blogs/cloth-market-hyderabad/
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