APNA BAZAR

Apna Bazar, the synonym for the household consumables needs, is the brand name of the Mumbai Kamgar Madhyawarti Grahak sahakari Sanstha Maryadit, a co-operative organisation started in 1948 by a few people committed to social cause, while responding to a clarion call of the nation for freedom. Amidst the festive mood and the enthusiasm when India's tryst with its destiny was complete, a few people could guess what independent citizens of India were destined to. The national economic policy was yet to take shape. The whole world was facing scarcity of food grains, as a fallout of the Second World War 1942. At this juncture, with a view to safeguarding the interests of working class, people under the leadership of Veteran social leaders like Ashoka Mehta, S.M. Joshi, N.G.Gore, Achyutrao Patwardhan, owing allegiance to socialist ideology, a handful of activists from Naigaum, Dadar, a mill-worker dominated area, in Mumbai, started a fair-price shop on 27th December 1948, under the name of..

Also known as: Apna Bazar Co-op, Apna Bazar G.K.