Civic Center - rakhial

Our civic center is situated inside the Vimalbhai Municipal Library Bhavan, right at the Rakhial Cross Road. It is a bit of an interesting spot because we share the building with the library, so you have people coming in for books as well as for city services. The cross road is usually quite packed with traffic, so there is a lot of honking and movement right outside the door. Being in this building means there is a bit more of a community feel than some of the other standalone offices. We are on the ground floor mostly, where people can walk in easily from the street. It is not a very big space, so it can feel a bit crowded when twenty or thirty people show up at the same time. The walls are a bit plain and the lighting is just standard office tubes. We spend our time checking IDs, processing payments, and answering the same questions over and over again, but that is the nature of the work. Most of the people who come here are workers or residents from the industrial or residential blocks around Rakhial. They usually want to get their business done quickly so they can get back to work. We don't have any fancy mission statements here, just a lot of ledgers and people waiting their turn. It’s a busy place but it serves the folks in this part of town well enough.