While some of them are making articles like kandils, flower pots, lamps among others inside their tents, some others are selling those on the footpaths. The prices of their articles are between Rs 250 to Rs 650.
After Uri attack, there has been campaigns on social media platform to avoid buying Chinese made products as the country supported Pakistan on issue of terrorism. Three tribal families from Andhra Pradesh have come all the way to Kharghar to spread message to avoid Chinese products to decorate homes during Diwali.
They insisted that residents should use country made products to teach a lesson to the dragon country. Tribal families are not putting put pressure to buy their products but they indeed insist to buy only country made. "We have brought products made by tribals in Andhra Pradesh. If residents do not like, they do not need to buy. But, they should buy only products made in India not in China and this is the way we can teach a lesson to China for supporting Pakistan," said Madakam Mada. One of the tribal seller from East Godavari district in Andhra Pradesh. Though these families are not very much tech savvy, they got to know from their neighborhood boycotting Chinese products and they decided to join in the campaign.
Normally, ahead of Diwali, every household plans to go to the finest shops in the market to get their decorative articles for this Diwali. But, this year, they can also find some unique items made of bamboo, cane and papers on the roads of Kharghar, which are probably not available anywhere in the city.
Tribal families from Andhra Pradesh have travelled almost 1,100 kilometers to make these articles available for the residents of Navi Mumbai ahead of the festival. They are staying in some temporary tents along the roads for the past few days.
While some of them are making articles like kandils, flower pots, lamps among others inside their tents, some others are selling those on the footpaths. The prices of their articles are between Rs 250 to Rs 650.
Satish M, another seller says, "All these products are made by tribals in their native place for the past several years. We used sell those in the local markets and the nearby towns in Andhra Pradesh. But, this year, we decided to promote our products in other states and encourage people to buy products made in this country only," adding that they are getting good response.
Satish says, "People are appreciating our effort and quality products available at low price. Such decorative items are not available at any shop in the city. We hope more people would come and purchase our items in the next few days. We will also think of moving to the other parts of the state."
Arpika Banerjee, one of the resident of Nerul says that this is the best example of Make in India campaign and we should promote such effort as part of patriotism.
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