First Experience of Jodhpur

I was excited about my trip to Rajasthan, and there were so many reasons behind it. The first reason was that I needed a  break from my routine College life, I was excited as the train was going through Gujarat (my home state), I was excited for the new experiences, new things/places as for the first time I was going to Rajasthan. I never had any experience of picnic in my past school life, traveling in a group is not my cup of tea, as an Introvert I love to travel alone and therefore traveling in a large group is terrible for me but still as it was a very small group and I knew all of them very closely so it was not an issue for me, still I packed all necessary things like headphone, books, personal diary, mobile, and laptop to minimize unnecessary interactions.

So the journey didn't start on the expected way, we reached at the station just 2-3 minutes before the train departs. So after 17 hours of long journey, we reached 'Blue City' Jodhpur. As we came outside the station, many auto drivers run towards us for a ride but first, we wanted to click some pictures at the station so after clicking pictures we took an auto to reach the place we are expecting to stay. The ride was adventurous as we five people with heavy luggage seated in one auto. The auto driver was asking for an address so we gave him address but due to some misunderstanding we went on the wrong route but somehow we managed to reach our place.

After all formalities, we took some rest and then in the afternoon we planned to visit mines of Jodhpur, so Then we went to mines, we just looked at it from the highway, we didn't enter. So the basic information we got is that there are so many communities working as a mines laborer, the living conditions of this people is very bad, the impact of this mines on the health of the workers should be the primary concern of the Administration of this area as mining taking place in large numbers. Most of the times, the workers in mines are Adivasi and Dalits and our countries biggest misery is that the issues of Dalits and Adivasi never accepted as an issue, only the issues of dominant castes get attention and therefore the mine's workers are from many generations being discriminated. To break this vicious circle there is a need for effective administrative intervention.

After that, we planned to visit Umaid Bhawan Palace which is one of the world's largest private residences, The palace has 347 rooms and is the principal residence of the former Jodhpur royal family. A part of the palace is a museum. One of my friends wanted to visit Jodhpur high court as he was interested to do an ontological inquiry of the statue of Manu, but somehow it was not possible as we had limited time. So after visiting Umaid Bhawan Palace, we came to a famous Daal-Baati Restaurant, it was established in 1985, Daal-Baati was good.

So, Jodhpur is a Beautiful city and has so many tourist places, along with so many tasty Traditional dishes but another aspect which many people have missed to even notice is that in Jodhpur there are nearly 33,000 mines. The labors are coming from different places and face different types of discrimination based on caste, class, gender, ethnicity, region, and language. The working condition of the laborer is very bad, there is no safety for them in mines, their health is at risk there is no health facility, many of them are patients of Silicosis and Asbestosis. The life expectancy of the worker is very low, their children don't get any opportunity of education and they start working in the mines in very early ages. so when you search on the internet about Jodhpur you will definitely get a recommendation for many famous tourist places to visit, but there is another side of the city which is kept hidden and no one is talking about it.