Utkal Galvanizers Ltd

Out here in Jamalpur, near Bahugram in the Cuttack district, things are a bit different than the city. Utkal Galvanizers Ltd is located on the family land, care of Biplab Kumar Acharya. It has been passed down and maintained over the years. We do a lot of work with metal coating to stop things from rusting. The vats are big and the heat from the molten zinc is something you never really get used to, especially in the summer. It is a rural setting, so you might see cows walking past the gates while we are loading up a truck. We don't have a fancy corporate structure. Most of the workers are from the surrounding villages. We know each other's families and what is going on in the town. The office is just a small room with a wooden desk and some old chairs. We don't use a lot of high-tech gadgets for our records. A lot of it is kept in big register books. When the rain comes down hard in Odisha, we sometimes have to stop work if the yard gets too muddy. We just do the work that comes our way, mostly for local construction and poles. It is a tough job but it is steady. We don't try to be anything we aren't. We are just local people running a galvanizing yard in the countryside.