Khairpur – Follow up and gathering required information

Updates of 21st of August 2010

Based on our working a day earlier, we went to Shahi Bazar near Clock Tower, the main market of Sukkur (some 40 – 50 km from Khairpur). We roam around and visit several whole salers and retailers to inquire about the quality, prices and availability of following items:

1. Wheat flour
2. Pulses (Mutter)
3. Pulses (Channa)
4. Tea
5. Sugar
6. Salt
7. Red Chilli Powder
8. Ghee
9. Matches
10. Rice
11. Hard Plastic Jerry Cans
12. Hard Plastic Lota
13. Steel Cooking Pots
14. Steel Serving Dish (Thaal)
15. Tawwa
16. Steel Cooking Spoon
17. Steel Glass
18. Washing Soap
19. Bath Soap
20. Mosquito Coils
21. Female Sanitary Pads
22. Diapers/Pampers
23. Water Purifying Tablets
24. Baby/Rational Powder
25. Dettol

Once we collected all necessary information, we left to book a room in a near by rest house or hotel. We searched almost every street of Sukkur but all of the rest houses and hotels were booked completely and we wasted almost 3 to 4 hours from 5:00 pm to 9:00 pm, fuel and energy searching for a suitable room. Later we came to know that several tv channel network crews, international and local NGOs have booked rooms in and around Sukkur and which is why we were facing such a situation. Thanks to SRSO that they helped us getting a room, though a very expensive one which shook our personal budgetary allocations, but at that time we can’t resist ourselves from having one.

When we checked in our room, we planned to work on the preparation of packages but we were too tired by now and it was almost 10:00 pm and we hadn’t had a dinner yet, so we decided to do that tomorrow and finally called it a day.