Mumbai 'Dabbadwallas' Urge State Govt. To Permit Local Train Travel For Them

Mumbai's famous dabbawallas have urged the Maharashtra government to allow them to travel in local trains, reports PTI. "Dabbawalas are also part of essential services are they deliver food to Mumbaikars. And since most officers are now functioning with reduced capacity, people have been asking us to deliver their meals," Subhash Talekar, president of Mumbai Dabbawala Association said. Talekar said that there has never been a six-month interruption in tiffin services for over 130 years and added that a proposal to assuring a financial assistance of Rs 5,000 per dabbawala has been discussed by the state cabinet but is yet to be approved.