MISCELLANEOUS OCCUPATIONS

HOTEL KEEPING (KHANAVALIS)

There were 25 boarding establishments in the two towns at the time of our survey. Out of the 18 khunavalis in Jalgaon, IS were situated in Ward No. VIII, two in Ward No. V, and one in Ward No. IX. In Amalner. Wards No. 1 and II contained six and one respectively. The total employment in them was 105 persons, out of whom 50 including live women and one child were paid employees and 55 including three women and two children were employers and their family members. Only three shops were surveyed in Jalgaon. and two in Amalner.

Out of the three shops surveyed in Jalgaon, two were vegetarian and one non-vegetarian. All of them were started between 1947 and 1954. Catering was their main occupation which gave them employment throughout the year. Two establishments out of three had borrowed the initial capital required for opening an establishment.

Tools and equipment in them were more or less the same as in tea shops and restaurants. One non-vegetarian shop had equipment worth Rs. 500. All the establishments were situated in rented premises. One paid Rs. 6 per month, others Rs. 25 and Rs. 30 per month as rent. Besides rent, they spent about Rs. 300 per year on electricity, municipal licence fee and advertisement. One spent Rs. 10 per month on water charges; others did not pay either for water or for electricity.

The total employment: in the three shops in Jalgaon was 11, out of whom four were paid employees including a woman. One shop was managed by the owner with the help of his family members. One of the. employees who was a manager was paid Rs. 65 per month. Persons who did other work were paid Rs. 15 per month.

One of the establishments spent Rs. 520 per month on raw materials like ghee, foodgrains, vegetables, edible oil, charcoal and fuel. etc.; the other about Rs. 250 inclusive of the cost of mutton. The third was a very small unit spending about Rs. 35 per month on these items.

Two establishments served vegetarian and one non-vegetarian food to their regular members in Amalner as well as to casual customers. In the vegetarian hotel a regular member was charged Rs. 28 to Rs. 40 per month, and a casual customer annas 12 to a rupee per meal. A regular customer taking one meal was charged Rs. 15 to Rs. 25 per month. A student taking two regular meals a day was given a concession of Rs. 2 per month. A mutton plate was sold at four annas in the non-vegetarian shop. The margin of profit in all the three units was not very high. In the small unit it was much less. Business was slack' in' rainy season.

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