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BACKGROUND
Gulbai Tekra a slum area located in Ahmedabad, a home to over a 1000 families. Gulbai Tekra is located in between the C.G. road and Gujarat university road. This place is inhabiting Rajasthani marvadis who were earlier in the year 1851-1854 migrated to Ahmedabad in search of homes. There was a rich Parsi woman named Gulabi Bai, owner of the land, she leased the land to the homeless people who migrated from Rajasthan for a monthly rent of two aanas (eight paise). When she got married, she gifted the land to the people living there, so the street got its name as Gulbai Tekra. Tekra means hilly forest, that place used to be a forest at that time and now it is a commercial city. At present, the name Gulbai Tekra has been popularly known by the name Hollywood basti, its name has been replaced as Hollywood basti owing to the fact that the beauty of women living in the basti is similar to that of the Hollywood beauty. There’s also a reason behind the name of Hollywood Basti, a photographer made the women of the basti pose like the Hollywood actress and the photos became famous when he uploaded the photos worldwide and hence the basti got the name as ‘Hollywood of Gujarat’. The mankind living are engaged in making of idols at the time of festivals, it is a place from where most of the supply happens. They make idols like of lord ‘Ganesha’ at the time of Ganesh Chaturthi, idols of ‘Krishna’ at the time of ‘janmashthami’, lord ‘laxmi’ in ‘Diwali’ and so on. The condition of the people is so poor there that they don’t have proper sanitation facilities, poor access to water, education, health care- hospitals, the availability of drinking water is also a gratification. The housing condition is also not very satisfactory, though the houses are made up of bricks but there is no roof slabs the roofs are made up of bamboo and polythene sheets, not every house was plastered. They had shops within their houses.