Discussion on Pomegranate Trade Losses

These pomegranates came from Kandahar,

from Kandahar.

You can see, they have ended up like this.

What has happened to them?

These are pomegranates, as you can see.

They are blemished, all of them.

They are blemished. Why is this, brother, this r-

Brother, it has been a month

since these trucks set off.

You know, the road is long.

It has been a month since the goods were sent.

In one month, these trucks have...

only just arrived here.

They spent one month on the road, in those trucks.

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Now they have been damaged.

There is nothing left, and their people are...

busy, the young men are busy.

It only happens in empty checkpoints.

This has spoiled, this...

This loss should be compensated,

along with the other expenses,

including the workers' costs.

Their money should be paid.

This should also be compensated.

From the outset, we ask the government

to build railways, then give us roads.

If you do not build railways,

then give us this assurance

that we can send them.

When it arrives, when it arrives, this...

You let them pass, then give them a way through,

which blocks the road for others.

This situation isn't pleasant, no.

Look how many crates have been damaged.

Approximately how much do

you estimate the loss to be?

This was a truckload of goods,

and a few cartons have fallen out.

A few cartons have fallen out. For example, at the very least—

—so far.

The loss comes to 30 to 50 lakh rupees.

It was a truckload of goods,

and the rest have been damaged.

A few cartons of goods have fallen out,

they can't even be accounted for.

So approximately how much is the loss?

In your opinion—

Approximately, approximately,

approximately, the loss is 40 lakh rupees—

More than 40 lakh.

More than 40 lakh.

A carton of pomegranates

these days costs around two—

—to three thousand rupees. This is a loss sent by God.

It is.

Absolutely. So, as you can see, these pomegranates—

They must have been coming from Kandahar.

These few cartons have come out,

from one vehicle's cargo, from one vehicle's cargo.

A few cartons have come out.

So especially, our and your traders who

are, they are

in Pakistan or Afghanistan, very humiliated.

Because of this, they are humiliated.

Now look, this, how much loss

there is for these Muslims, you can see.

Ah, these few cartons. From one truck, approximately

not many cartons of goods have come out.

There aren't twenty cartons.

Not even twenty cartons have come out,

two— a few goods have come out from—

Or not even twenty cartons have come out.

This is a huge loss, approximately more than 105

lakh

rupees in losses.

More than 105 lakh in losses.

Seven.

So what do you want to tell people?

The other traders who now are somewhat unknown—

Or rather, I would say this, dear brother,

that they should open the routes out of the area.

Seven.

And, dear brother,

if they do not have work of this kind, this is very

These are losses, estimated losses.

These pomegranates have been stranded for a month.

Seven.

Five, the loss is over ten million rupees.

This is a very major loss.

A very major loss.

Very major.

Meaning, the year's hard work, that—

It's ruined, ruined.

If this loss is recovered,

it will be green again.

Seven.

This loss cannot be recovered.

It cannot be recovered.

No.

So, in a year—