The Australian Prime Minister visited Mumbai during his four-day visit to India. He was presented a ‘tiffin-box’ (popularly known as ‘dabba’ in Mumbai) at India-Australia CEO Forum. Mumbai’s traditional dabbawallas is a team of 5000 people who transport homemade food every day between the house of customers and their offices. For more than 120 years, Mumbai's legendary dabbawalas have been delivering delicious meals in lunchboxes to the working class of the city from every nook and corner of the city to the customers.
Anthony is seen in a video posted on Twitter by Union Commerce Minister
Piyush Goyal, who was also at the same event, unwrapping a tiffin box that the dabbawalas gave to him.
The team of dabbawallas is considered ‘iconic’ because of the coding system created by the founder of the group, which is still prominent in the 21st century. Initially, it was only simple color coding, but since Mumbai is a large metropolis with three local rail routes, the coding has also advanced to include alphanumeric characters. The Dabbawallas of Mumbai are being used as a case study by management students at many schools and universities around the world.
The video's caption read: "Jab Dabbawalas met Masterchefs.". On Twitter, Albanese also posted a photo from his encounter with dabbawalas.
Earlier in the day, Prime Minister
Narendra Modi and Anthony Albanese spent 30 minutes watching the fourth Test match between India and Australia at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad.
In fact, the captains of both the respective teams received their test caps from Modi and Albanese.
While being present at the country's capital of entertainment, the Australian prime minister also discussed films. He tweeted, “And here in Mumbai, the capital of Indian cinema, we’re seeing more Aussies in Bollywood productions. Both on and off-screen. And we want to see more Bollywood productions in Australia.”