The angadias, who are to the city's diamond industry what dabbawallahs are to the rest of Mumbai, feel their work has received a setback because of the I-T department and NIA's crackdown on a suspicious consignment. But they are determined to ensure their work isn't affected. After all, theirs is a massive operation: sources say there are nearly 45,000 angadias working across Mumbai and Gujarat, and they transport diamonds worth Rs 40,000 crore per annum.
Diamond traders receive imports in Mumbai and despatch rough stones to factories outside Mumbai, mostly in Gujarat, to be polished. The finished diamonds are then brought back to the city. At every stage, the angadia is the trusted Man Friday. He either carries the diamonds in hidden pockets sewn into his shirt or in a bag he will place under his seat on the Gujarat Mail, a train so popular with angadias that it has informally come to be known as the Angadia Express.
Drawn from a close-knit community, the members of these mostly Gujarati family-run firms are known not to open the parcels they carry to check what they contain. But they are relied upon to prepare a transport receipt for the consignment and insure it in keeping with its value before despatching it. And they do not transport jewellery alone but also items like garments and motor spare parts. "Rates start at Rs 11-12 per kg. Diamond traders are charged Rs 300 for a packet whose worth is Rs 1 lakh," said an angadia worker. 'Terror' slur angers closely-knit angadias
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