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00:00By the way, you must have eaten many such rasgullas, which are made of sugar, but there is a shop in Gopalganj where jaggery rasgulla is prepared, which is made in a single shop in the district only in winters.
00:16The owner of this shop is also an interesting story, because he started it with his Bihari and Bengali friends.
00:24They have been friends for 21 years and also provide special types of rasgullas for the people of the district.
00:32This rasgulla is available only in winters for 3-4 months and its demand is high here.
00:39Rasgullas are made from date jaggery.
00:42When we opened the shop here, two of my childhood friends opened it together.
00:47Rasgulla was made in Bengal, so we thought why not make it here.
00:53Diabetes patients also like it and enjoy eating it.
00:58So we also started making it here and there was a good demand.
01:02Then we started making it in large quantities and people started liking it.
01:09We make it in large quantities and people like it a lot.
01:16This date jaggery is available only in winters.
01:20We can't keep it in the summer because it spoils in the summer and it won't taste good.
01:27That's why we make it in winters and sell it for 3-4 months.
01:31We buy the jaggery from Kolkata and make rasgullas from it here.
01:36People also like it a lot.
01:38We make the jaggery syrup from date jaggery.
01:42We make the rasgullas from it and cook it in the jaggery syrup.
01:53The price of jaggery is around Rs.200-150 per kg.
01:59We sell rasgullas for Rs.440 per kg and Rs.20 per piece.
02:04People start demanding for it when it starts getting cold.
02:11When it starts getting cold and jaggery is available in the market, we transport it to the market.
02:17My father brought me here to make rasgulla from jaggery.
02:22I have been making it for 2 years.
02:26How do you make it?
02:28We heat the jaggery and add it to the rasgulla.
02:35What kind of jaggery do you use?
02:37Date jaggery.
02:40How long have you been working here?
02:4220 years.
02:44Your grandfather came here 20 years ago?
02:45Yes, he came here 20 years ago.
02:47That's when he brought me here.
02:49What's your name?
02:50Gautam Jana.
02:52The rasgullas that are being made here are very different from other rasgullas.
02:58They are also special.
03:00These rasgullas are made from date jaggery, not sugar.
03:07Diabetic patients love to eat these rasgullas because they are sugar-free.
03:16These rasgullas are made by Bengali workers.
03:20These rasgullas were started by two friends.
03:23These rasgullas have been made for 20-21 years.
03:29These rasgullas are still being made.