Mittal Premium Daal

If you find yourself near the Balaji Temple in Prem Nagar, you’ll probably see our place at Nanda Ki Chowki. We handle a lot of pulses here. Mittal Premium Daal isn’t a high-tech operation; it’s more about sacks of grains and the sound of cleaning machines. The dust from the lentils sometimes fills the air, so we keep the doors open. We spend hours looking at different batches of daal to make sure they aren't full of stones or dirt. People around Prem Nagar know where we are because we’ve been at this spot for a good while. The building isn't anything special to look at, just a practical space where we can store and sort the goods. Sometimes the delivery guys have a hard time finding a place to park on the narrow road, but we manage. We aren't big on fancy titles or corporate meetings. Usually, it’s just us in our work clothes, checking the weight of the bags on the old scale. If the weather is bad, the roof leaks a little in the corner, but we moved the stock away from there. It’s a straightforward business. We get the raw daal, we clean it up, and we sell it. There’s no magic to it, just a lot of lifting and looking closely at small things all day. Most of our day is spent making sure the bags are loaded onto the trucks correctly.