Umma Associate Engineering

Our workshop, Umma Associate Engineering, is in the village of Madhya Santoshpur. We are right near the Madhya Santoshpur School, so we hear the kids playing and the bells ringing all day long. It’s a quiet area compared to the city, but we stay busy with our engineering work. To find us, you go past the school in the direction of Bargachia. The workshop is a simple building with a tin roof that gets really loud when it rains. We have some lathes and welding machines that we’ve had for a long time. They are old but they still work fine for what we need to do. Most of our work comes from people in the local area or from Jagatballavpur. We don’t have a website or anything like that, we just rely on people knowing where we are. The air is a bit cleaner out here in the village, though the shop itself smells like burnt metal and oil. We start our day early before it gets too hot and try to finish up by the time the sun goes down. Sometimes we sit outside on some wooden crates to have our lunch and talk about what needs fixing next. It’s a peaceful way to work, even if the work itself is a bit messy and loud. We just focus on getting the parts made and keeping the machines running. The school kids sometimes peek in after class to see what we are making.