: No Income Put Her Daughter’s Education at Stake. Today, Mrs Idli Earns Rs 4500/Day #IndiaNEWS #Delhi Imagine if your business, which you struggled to set up, goes bust for no fault of your own.

No Income Put Her Daughter’s Education at Stake. Today, Mrs Idli Earns Rs 4500/Day #IndiaNEWS #Delhi
Imagine if your business, which you struggled to set up, goes bust for no fault of your own. Geeta Jaiswal (43), experienced just this during the pandemic induced lockdown. Forced to start from scratch, she is now back on her feet, and how.
Having moved to Delhi from Allahabad in 2016 with no support or family backing, she slowly and steadily built her homemade tiffin service business in Shalimar Bagh. This was until the lockdown brought the curtains down on it in March 2020.
As the sole breadwinner of the family, supporting her young daughter and mother-in-law, with no support from her husband, sitting at home and brooding was not an option.

Having run a successful homemade tiffin service pre-lockdown, Geeta decided to stick to what she knew best – food. It was the need to earn a living that led Geeta to establishing Mrs Idli, a food stall in Shalimar Bagh on 28 July 2020.
From having a zero income for almost three months, Geeta’s food stall business now earns her almost Rs 4500 each day.
Who is Geeta Jaiswal?
Meet Mrs Idli.
Geeta can perhaps best be described as that fiery mother, who can move mountains to provide for her family. She came to Allahabad in search of a job. Her husband, who continues to live in Allahabad, had long before washed his hands off his family responsibilities.
“When I came to Delhi for the first time I put up a small food stall in which I would make and sell bread pakodas and litti chokha. While it did not make me too much money, it was a start,??? she says. She decided to continue cooking and kept trying ways in which she could add to her monthly income.
It was at this time that the idea of starting a home-cooked tiffin service struck her. She says, “The area in which I stay had many UPSC (Union Public Service Commission) aspirants staying as well. Since many of them were away from their families, they were always on the lookout for good home cooked nutritious meals. Seeing potential in that I started my tiffin service. ???
Geeta was preparing three meals a day, for almost 65 to 70 students before the pandemic struck. “In March, when the lockdown was implemented, I was jobless almost overnight. All the accommodations around my house started clearing out, and before I realised it, all the aspirants had gone back,??? she says.
From March until July 2020, Geeta went through a lot of financial turmoil.
Idli-sambar to the rescue
A crowd gathered outside the stall.
“I had no choice but to find ways to keep going,??? she says and adds, “If I had the support of my husband I could have, like many others, also sat at home during the crucial lockdown months. ??? Geeta started small and armed with a wooden stool and her food, she set up a shop very close to where she stays.