Ultra Tech Cement Ltd, A B G Group

Down here in Bhogsamudram, things move at a different pace. We are located within the Tadipatri mandal in Anantpur district. Major Ashok Kumar, our C.S.O., keeps things running in a very orderly way, which you’d expect from his background. The site is a bit isolated, surrounded by the dry and rocky landscape of Andhra Pradesh. It gets incredibly hot here in the afternoons, so we usually try to get the heavy lifting and the logistics done early in the day. Our office is a functional building where we manage the security and the daily logs for the cement. There’s a lot of space around us, mostly just open land and the sound of the wind. We get a lot of trucks coming through, so there’s always a bit of noise from the engines and the loaders. It’s not the kind of place where you’d find a lot of visitors just passing by, but we stay busy with the industrial side of things. We keep the water coolers full because of the intense heat. The Major has a very straightforward way of doing things, and the rest of us just follow that lead. It’s a quiet life out here in some ways, but there’s always something to keep an eye on. We just focus on the task at hand and try to stay organized despite the dust and the sun. It’s a practical environment for a cement operation and we like it that way.