Holi in Indore 2022: Indore (Naiduniya Representative). Two years after the Corona epidemic, the color of Holi festival seems to be returning. Preparations are on to take out colorful gar again in the city. After the outbreak of the disease subsides, people are ready to celebrate Holi. Meanwhile, the people doing the business of paint and gulal are in strange trouble. The wholesale market is grappling with shortage of goods this year. There is a big wholesale market of colors and pichkaris in Indore. Every time for two years, just before Holi, the market used to slow down due to increasing cases of corona. According to traders, neither the enthusiasm of Holi was shown in 2020 and 2021, nor business was done properly.
Outside kheerchi vendors who used to take goods from Indore every year, they were also seen making distance in two years. This year also till the beginning of February, people were apprehensive whether Holi would be celebrated or not. There was also a fear of the Corona wave. Therefore, neither the market showed interest in advance booking, nor did the inquiries increase in advance. In the past, after the announcement of celebrating Holi by the Chief Minister, removal of night curfew and announcement of Gair, suddenly the market was filled with enthusiasm.
Price hiked by 50 percent According to Lakhan Balchandani, a wholesale dealer of paint-pichkari in Indore, the pitchers here come from Delhi, Mumbai and Gujarat. The dye factories are local, but herbal gulal and aromatic color have also come from Hathras, Delhi and Chhattisgarh. Now that the demand has come out, the manufacturers have increased the prices. It is the toy manufacturers that produce the pitchforks. They made less goods out of fear of Corona, so the prices of the pitchers were increased by 50 percent earlier.
Now the prices in Delhi-Mumbai are being told up to double. The factories of Gujarat are not giving the goods. Due to the inflation of petroleum, the reason for the cost of plastic is also being told. There is no dearth of water colours, so there is not much difference in their prices but there is a dearth of herbal and aromatic gulal. Gulal of Rs 48 per kg is being sold in bulk at Rs 65 and Rs 76 per kg this year for Rs 95 per kg. Pitchers are available in the wholesale market ranging from Rs.4 to Rs.450.
Posted By: Prashant Pandey