Shamsher Ahmad Building Material

We are located in a small village area called Chiraia Kot, in the Tehsil of Muhammadabad Gohna. Our place is right on the Azamgarh Road in District Mau. It’s a very local operation. We mostly supply bricks, cement, and sand to people building houses or small shops nearby. Since we are right on the main road, we see a lot of tractors and local buses passing by all day. The yard is usually full of stacks of red bricks and big mounds of sand that the local kids sometimes try to play in. It’s a lot of physical labor for us. We load the trucks by hand mostly, and it’s tiring work under the hot sun. When it rains, everything slows down because the sand gets heavy and the ground turns into thick mud, making it hard for the trucks to move around. We don't have an office with air conditioning or anything like that. We sit on a wooden bench under a tin roof and talk to the drivers or the contractors who come in. We’ve lived in this area forever, so we know everyone who comes through our gate. We keep a simple record book for the sales. There aren't any fancy computers here. Sometimes we have to wait a few days for the cement supplies to arrive from the city, and we just tell the customers to check back later. It’s a basic life, but building things is important for the village and the people around us.