Updated On: 28 October, 2012 06:35 AM IST | | Kranti Vibhute
As we get wary about bombs in tiffin boxes, Mumbai's oldest service sees 25 per cent reduction in manpower
They have been around since the last decades of the 1800s and their efficient service has not only got them a meeting with Prince Charles but also the attention of the business world. Their CEO has been called to give a talk at IIMs and they have received a mention in the Harvard Business Review. But, is the era of dabbawalas coming to end?

Fewer youngsters want to join the profession, preferring the lives in their villages to the gruelling schedule of a dabbawala. File pic used for representation purpose only