”I don't extend my hand to anyone, instead I sell lemon tea to support my household”

असार २२, २०८२

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”I don't extend my hand to anyone, instead I sell lemon tea to support my household”

I can't live without a job. It is the inner soul that keeps encouraging that something should be done. If you have the willpower again, you will have the courage to work anyway. That's why he didn't want to rest even in his old age.

After waking up early every day and finishing dancing, I prepare goods for lemon tea (lemon tea) business . It takes about an hour to prepare all the sarjam .

I am now 67 years old. My house is in Lamkichuha Municipality-4 Ballia of Kailali. I have been living in Gulria since four years after leaving home with the aim of earning two money. I have rented a room near Gulria Municipality-7 Banglamukhi Temple. 

Since I grew up in a normal family, I have understood all the problems since childhood. Because the financial situation was not good, I rushed to India to earn until I was old enough to raise my child. I worked hard in different places of India. As the age went down, the hair also started to decline . I chose a new business after the time to work was reduced. I started selling lemon tea in Lucknow, India.

After a few days, I hesitated while walking around the shop with a thermos in my hand. It gradually got easier. After staying in Lucknow and doing this for 5 years, I returned home . Then I came to Rajapur in Bardia to do this work. 

I went to the Rajapur market and traded lemon tea for a year. After doing business, I came to Gularia via Madhuvan . For the past four years, I have been going to Gularia continuously and selling lemon tea. It has been 10 years since I started selling lemon tea from shop to shop.

Every shopkeeper in Gulria Bazaar knows me . As soon as they see me because they want to eat, they ask me to come here with lemon tea. The thermos lasts about 3 hours of heat . Twice a day, you have to run the room to heat lemon tea. In the morning I go out with a thermos in one hand and a small bucket with a glass and 'lemon tea' spice in one hand. If it sells out quickly, I will go back to the room early in the afternoon and cook and eat myself . If it sells out late, it's time to eat late .

I have 3 sons and 2 daughters . Daughters are married and are in their own homes. Sons are also married and all are separate, it is okay for them to raise their own children. I also do business here to support my family . There is an old lady at home, I go home once a month . I stay for two or three days and return to do business. 

Every day I walk about 4 km from shop to shop in Gulria Bazar . There is good business in the winter season. There is not much business in the current summer season . A cup of 'lemon tea' is sold for 10 rupees. Hardly cuts 70/75 cups . There is a daily business of 700. In which glass, 'lemon tea' spices (black salt, jawano, sukmel, black pepper, sugar and lemon) spend 300 per day . About 400 children daily. From which I pay monthly rent of 2500 . For a single stomach, about 8,000 is spent monthly on pulses, rice, vegetables, spices, salt, oil gas, rags-clothes, soap-soap etc . I had to save the rest and send it home for household expenses. 

Your farm is nothing. You have to pay the household expenses from what you earn. My income and expenses are equal. Although there is a three-room house to live in, it is not possible to live comfortably. As long as there is a fistful of breath, I hesitate not to spread my hand in front of anyone and I am doing the business of 'lemon tea'.

presentation: Ram Prasad Chauhan

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