Essar Constructios India Ltd.

Out in the village of Pakari, near Pur in the Ballia district, life has a very specific pace. Essar Constructios India Ltd. is located right there, where the roads are narrow and the fields are wide. It’s a long way from the big metropolitan offices, and we like it that way. Most of our work involves local projects that help the community here in Uttar Pradesh. Our office is more like a meeting house where people from the village stop by to talk. We don't have air conditioning or fancy computers; we mostly rely on notebooks and a lot of talking. Construction in a place like this means dealing with whatever the season throws at you, whether it’s the extreme heat or the floods during the rains. We work with local labor, guys who have lived in Ballia their whole lives and know the land. There isn't any marketing talk here. We just discuss what needs to be built and how we’re going to get the materials to the site. Sometimes the supplies have to come from far away, and that takes a lot of planning. We drink a lot of tea and spend a lot of time making sure everyone knows their job for the day. It’s a simple, rugged way of working. We aren't trying to impress anyone with big words. We just want to make sure the structures we build are going to last for the people who live here.