 Today there are about 100,000 people from these three communities who have settled in Thakkar Bappa Colony and the area surrounding to it.Their daily work consists of manufacturing shoes and distributing the same to other parts of Mumbai and India.Initially shoes were sold to wholesale markets in parts of Mumbai but in the last 20 years many of them have opened their own shoe wholesale shops and today Thakkar Bappa Colony boasts of more than a hundred shops where you could buy handmade shoes of hundreds of different varieties and range.even they have started exporting in many countries.