Mumbai Dabbawala

    A dabbawala (literally, one who carries a box), also spelled as dabbawalla or dabbawallah is a person in the Indian city of Mumbai who is employed in a unique service industry whose primary business is collecting the freshly cooked food in lunch boxes from the residences of the office workers (mostly in the suburbs), delivering it to their respective workplaces and returning back the empty boxes by using various modes of transport. (wiki)
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    1. Debasis ~~ (53 months ago | reply)

      excellent photo....dabbawala...6 sigma organization !!!!

    2. A y A n (53 months ago | reply)

      thanks friends

    3. challiyan (48 months ago | reply)

      Can you release the licence of this picture under CC for using it in Wikipedia?

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    5. JWTIntelligence (29 months ago | reply)

      Great work!

      Just wanted to let you know we used this image on our blog, JWTIntelligence.com, and in our annual Things to Watch presentation.

      You can check out the blog post here: 02a6614.netsolhost.com/jwtiblog/?p=736

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