Chetak Steel Corporation

Chetak Steel Corporation is located right at Plot No. 71/3 in Phase-1, GIDC, Vatva. It’s basically a big shed filled with steel. We have different types of bars and rods stacked up, and the crane is usually moving back and forth for most of the morning. Steel is heavy and stubborn, so our work is mostly about physical labor and making sure we don't drop anything on our toes. The guys wear thick gloves, but their hands still get calloused pretty quickly. It’s noisy because of the cutting saws and the metal clanging against metal, so we end up shouting to hear each other. We don't have a website or anything like that because most of our customers just know where we are and what we have in stock. The air smells like iron and cutting oil, which isn't the best, but you get used to it after a week or two. Sometimes we get a big order and the whole place becomes a bit of a mess with offcuts and shavings everywhere. We try to sweep up at the end of the shift, but by the next morning, it looks exactly the same again. It’s just honest work with metal, nothing more and nothing less. We’ve been at this plot for a while now and know the local transporters well enough to get the metal where it needs to go. It is just life in the steel trade.