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There are 2 earnings at home and 20 eaters. Everyone’s survival used to run from this shop, which was burnt.
This pain is of 800 Rajasthanis settled in Surat, Gujarat. His shops were in the Shiv Shakti Textile Market on Ring Road, Surat. On 25 February, there was a huge fire in the market.
A businessman died of suffocation. Crores of crores of rupees (cash) of traders kept in shops, cloth material worth more than Rs 300 crore, transactions and laptop computers kept in the shop were burnt.
The fire was controlled late on February 27 after two days of hard work. By then, the hard work of hundreds of Rajasthanis, the dreams of the better future of children were burnt.
To know the pain of these Rajasthani traders, Bhaskar team reached Surat city from Jaipur.
Read the full report…
Seeing the burning shops standing with years of hard work, the traders could not stop themselves and started crying bitterly in this way.
There were many fire brigade and police vehicles in Shiv Shakti Market (Surat) at 12 noon on 28 February.
The police closed the roads leading to the market and closed the entry of common people and traders. Smoke was rising from the market even after 3 days. Fire brigade employees were working to cool the market.
Many traders were standing nearby. The helpless staring was looking at the burnt market. It was here that Kailash Hakim, president of the Federation of Surat Textile Traders Association, was tied to traders.
15 shops built with 32 years of hard work burnt First of all we met Pukhraj Rajpurohit. Said- son! 32 years ago, Surat came from a small village in Bhinmal in Jalore. It was 17 years old. Empty -handed came to this city.
Worked for many years. Later, by borrowing from here and there, the shop was also found here. This city made me a millionaire and today came on the road in a single night. I do not understand what I will do now?
Telling this, the throat of Pukhraj was filled. The traders standing nearby comforted. Somehow he handled himself and said- Ramadan season is the time. For this reason, the shop was stocked in advance. The fire caused a loss of 6 crores. Our account is also burnt inside.
The traders with whom I borrowed, they have also come into trouble. I will have to sell everything to keep my behavior. Now will the naked take a bath and will squeeze? If there is nothing in the well, what water will I drink? Today my 32 years have been wasted.
Damage in 800 shops Businessman Kamlesh Purohit stood in front of the market. He said- In this market, we are all shops of Rajasthanis. The first fire broke out on 25 February, which was extinguished. When he arrived the next day, it was found out that there was a fire again.
2 shops used to run 20 people Mohanlal Joshi, originally from Udaipur, was standing nearby. Speak- Now whom should we blame for this arson? Administration had given his life to extinguish the fire. The government requests the government to support us.
Businessman blamed builders and municipality Vishnu Aggarwal, a businessman from Renwal, Rajasthan, told- I have been living here for 25 years. Such incidents are happening due to the corruption of builders and Surat Metropolitan Municipality.
Poor traders do not speak anything due to fear. The corporators of this area have not yet come on the spot. Modi ji is a very good leader, but his thinking should also be kept by the leader under BJP.
Owner of 6 shops said- Now you will have to do jobs
Harish Bhai Mali, a businessman from Sirohi, Rajasthan, told- I had 6 shops in the Shiv Shakti market. Everything changed in one day. Till a day before I was Seth myself. Was giving jobs to people. If there is no help soon, then I will have to do some job from tomorrow to run my house and pay people’s debt.
The spreading fire in one shop to another caught the entire market.
Association president said- loss of thousands of crores
Federation of Surat Textile Traders Association President Kailash Hakim said- The shops of business brothers were burning in front of the eyes. They were running here and there but we were unable to do anything. The traders were crying. Seeing them, my eyes were getting moist too. At that time our priority was to save the lives of people. Thousands of crores have been lost due to fire.
However, this is such that the Taseer of this Surat city is like this and we all have blessings of mother Tapi here. Together we will once again stand firmly.
We have also appealed to all the agents and parties of the mandis through the association to get all the payment out of the traders of Shiv Shakti Market out as soon as possible.
We also appeal to the state government and the central government that a special economic package should also be given to the traders ruined in this arson. Insurance claim cases should also be settled immediately.
On the conspiracy about the arson, Kailash Hakim told why someone will burn his house? These are all negative things.
This is how the fire was erupted
- Fire on 25 February: A fire broke out in the shop number 2044 of Shiv Shakti Market at 1.30 pm. On seeing this, the fire reached 15 shops nearby. 20-25 trains of the fire brigade controlled the fire after 5 hours of hard work.
- Death of a businessman: Mahendra Kumar Jain, a businessman from Akoli in Jalore district, died due to lack of ventilation in the basement and suffocating. The market was closed after overcoming the arson and started a cooling process.
- Fire erupted again on 26 February: A fire broke out again in the morning. A fire was reported on the WhatsApp group of Shiv Shakti Market at 8 am. Traders arrived here in a hurry. Everything was burnt when he saw.
- Heavy losses in 700 shops: The Shiv Shakti Market was built in 1996 by two brothers Bhupat Patel and Arun Patel. The 6 -storey building has 137 shops on each floor. There are a total of 822 shops in the market. 700 shops are completely burnt.
Due to the fire, the temperature increased so much that the fire brigade also had to make efforts to control the fire from outside.
Why could not control the fire early? Experts say that if there is a fire in the cloth market, it becomes very difficult to control it. Due to the cloth, the fire spreads rapidly. Especially polyester-scratic cloth. When he catches the fire, it cannot be controlled immediately. There was a huge stock of sarees and dress materials in Shiv Shakti Market Shops. In such a situation, the fire broke out rapidly.
Chief Fire Brigade Officer Basant Parikh told the media- Fire Brigade teams extinguished the fire from outside. The temperature inside was very high. It was not easy to control the fire due to heavy stock of synthetic fabric in shops.
Teams have worked continuously with hydrolics and gas cutters. Each shop had three people, so it took time. The market building has also suffered damage due to frequent fire.
Gujarat Home Minister Harsh Sanghvi also reached the market to take stock of the situation.
The market set or set fire! FSL investigation will be clear Gujarat’s State Fire Director Anil Chavda also reached Shiv Shakti Market on Thursday. He said that he will prepare the report by gathering all kinds of information. The FSL team will investigate the cause of this fire accident. Inspector KD Jadeja of Salabatpura police station also said that the exact reason will be known only after investigation.
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