Om Engineering Work

Located on Sansar Chandra Road, in that corner of Azad Basti. It is a busy stretch of Jaipur. Om Engineering Work has been here for years. The shop isn't big. We have a few machines tucked into the space. There is always the sound of metal hitting metal. My hands are usually black from the work by noon. People stop by asking for small repairs or to get something welded. We don't have a big office or fancy chairs. Just a wooden table where we keep the bills and a few stools. The dust from the road comes inside every time a truck passes. It gets very bright in the summer, and the fans barely do anything to move the hot air around. But we are used to it. Azad Basti has a lot of little shops like ours. We all know each other. Sometimes we borrow a tool from the neighbor if ours is acting up. It is honest work. We don't try to make things look better than they are. If a piece of equipment is old, we tell the customer. If it can be saved, we save it. That is what we do at Sansar Chandra Road. It is just a regular day, every day, making sure the machines keep running for whoever needs them. We don’t mind the noise much anymore and just get on with the welding and the repairs until it is time to close.