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How do you define vision? Is it the foresight to see things clearer than others or the ability to plan for the future better than others? Implementing a vision involves laying out a blueprint after carefully assessing the risks and rewards in the current and future scenarios. Then, creating a list of goals to accomplish it. 

Corona pandemic has taught us well the importance of local manufacturing, local market, and local supply chain. In the hour of need, local has fulfilled our demands and saved us. Local is not a necessity but a responsibility for all of us. The message was loud and clear, ‘be vocal for local’. Be the change your country needs and push for ‘Make in India’ products.

Vocal for local is not a programme, policy or just another slogan but it is a principle which guides us to support our own local people, mostly the lower and middle income groups who are the backbone of our economy.

So on the occasion of 74th Independence Day celebrations - Vocal the Local campaign called SWADESHI MANDI we the NITIEzens of Mumbai presenting you ‘Surati Undhiyu’…..

Undhiyu is a Gujarati mixed vegetable dish that is a regional specialty of Surat, India. The name of this dish comes from the Gujarati word "undhu", which translates to upside down, since the dish is traditionally cooked upside down underground in earthen pots, termed "matlu", which are fired from above.

Within an earthen matka sit a bewildering array of wintry tubers and vegetables: green Surti papdi, baby eggplants, purple kand (yam), sweet and regular potatoes, seedless kakdi (broad beans), unripe Rajagiri bananas with the skin on, sometimes green peas, and fenugreek.