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Sunday, June 8, 2008
Small enterprises in Delhi - Furniture shops around Connaught Place
There are some furniture shop areas in Delhi. One of the on the street close to the middle of the Delhi, so called Connaught Place, or "CP" in short.
One can find new shops and good bars in CP but, also find small enterprises for furniture etc.
This street view on the right picture made me realized that furniture being sold on the nice shops are made by those people behind the main streets.
In addition, I could understand why quality could not meet my needs in many of cases at relatively cheap shops. The facility is not clean at all, delivery people are using very old bicycle carts to bring your furniture from shop to your house, which often add scratches and cracks on, even new furniture. So, you don't need buy antique.....
This is a sort of opportunity in Delhi and in India to improve quality of furniture and stop
importing those made in Malaysia and China to offer more jobs and decent payment to Indian citizens, particularly low-income segments. It is well-know that more than 90% of Indian labor force is in the informal sector where they don't have health insurance, labor protection and pension benefit. Apart from the labor market reform, increasing productivity and quality of their products will help their economic aspects at least.
I have to mention however, there are many high quality furniture shops and companies as well but you see the limited job opporunities for the poor and the prices are as expensive as in developed countries..... I wanted to reform furniture industry before coming here.....
One can find new shops and good bars in CP but, also find small enterprises for furniture etc.
This street view on the right picture made me realized that furniture being sold on the nice shops are made by those people behind the main streets.
In addition, I could understand why quality could not meet my needs in many of cases at relatively cheap shops. The facility is not clean at all, delivery people are using very old bicycle carts to bring your furniture from shop to your house, which often add scratches and cracks on, even new furniture. So, you don't need buy antique.....
This is a sort of opportunity in Delhi and in India to improve quality of furniture and stop
importing those made in Malaysia and China to offer more jobs and decent payment to Indian citizens, particularly low-income segments. It is well-know that more than 90% of Indian labor force is in the informal sector where they don't have health insurance, labor protection and pension benefit. Apart from the labor market reform, increasing productivity and quality of their products will help their economic aspects at least.I have to mention however, there are many high quality furniture shops and companies as well but you see the limited job opporunities for the poor and the prices are as expensive as in developed countries..... I wanted to reform furniture industry before coming here.....
