Gaffar Market

Ghaffar Market is a popular and old market place in India’s capital city Delhi. The market is named after an Indian freedom fighter, Ghaffar Khan.

It is known to be popular electronic market place in the city, with shops and stores selling all kinds of mobile phones and other electronic goods. It also has a few shops selling other things like clothes, and accessories, but these are not too popular with people, who usually come here with the main purpose of buying electronic goods.

Recently a plan was proposed by the North Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) to re-develop the Ghaffar Marketand rehabilitate shopkeepers to a different location, as the market and its buildings were reported to be in a dilapidated and dangerous condition.

Ghaffar market was established in the year 1962. It was then just a single-storeyed market that sold jewellery, crockery, clothes and household (utility) items, and eventually shops selling electronics also started adding to it, later even surpassing the number of the other shops.

In subsequent years, Ghaffar market went on to become one of the most famous landmarks of Delhi, and today the market is best known for selling the latest technology and electronics like mobile phones, electronics & PC computers at wholesale prices.

If you are in Delhi and want to go for shopping, your first destination should be Gaffar Market at Karol Bagh which houses shops for all your needs and desires. Be it a busted phone, accessories, jewelry, TV, sunglasses, bags, or literally anything, Gaffar Market is the treasure chest of things to shop right from your hair pin to a brand-new TV set. Here’s what you can expect in your trip to Gaffar Market in Delhi.

• Electronics Galore – The market is a rehab for broken phones and tablets and all other electronic devices. Be it a cracked screen or a fried motherboard, your device will be back to you resurrected. You might also find smart TVs, refurbished phones, PlayStations, branded speaker systems, etc., at cheap or reasonable rates that you will be drooling over.
• An array of phone covers – Whatever design you might even had in your mind for your phone cover that you were never able to get, there are high chances that Gaffar Market will fulfil your wish. One thing that is commonly seen here are the phone covers with remarkable options to chose from. Endless colors, countless designs, and in distinct material for almost all phone type are available here.
• Clothing and lifestyle – From trendy t-shirts to traditional kurtis, from tops and jeans, you ask for it and Gaffar Market will have several shops for one lifestyle product. Not just clothes, find printed and colorful bedsheets, sofa covers, mats, etc., at reasonable rate. You can get your hands on your fair share of jewelry and footwear as well.
• Replicas of branded watches – If you see someone in Delhi wearing Rolex or branded watches, there is a chance that it came from Gaffar Market. It is a hub for duplicate, first-copy, and second-copy luxury watches like Rolex, Gucci, Versace, and even Apple at dirt cheap prices.
• Devour the delicious food – After wandering in the market all day you are bound to have hunger cravings. Gaffar Market has everything from cold chuski to golgappa to chat-tikki and momos sold by roadside vendors and stalls. So, when you feel your energy levels going down from all the shopping, just devour some golgappas and have a glass of masala soda or masala banta and off you go again.
• Massage your sore back – Come to Gaffar Market during the weekend for a relaxing massage session after a full hectic week and revitalize your energy and sore muscles to get going for the next week and that too at reasonable cost.

Ghaffar market is located near Karol Bagh area in Delhi. It is open to shoppers from 10 AM to 10 PM on all days of the week.

Visitors can reach the place by road (through private vehicle or public modes of transport in the city like bus, or cab or auto-rickshaw).

Another option is to take the Delhi Metro - The nearest metro station to Ghaffar Market is the Karol Bagh Metro station, lying on the blueline of Delhi Metro.