Vaishnav Engineering Works, Jalandhar,

We are tucked away in Gali No-9 over in Sanjay Gandhi Nagar. It’s a tight street, so getting big deliveries in can be a bit of a headache sometimes. Jalandhar is a good place for this kind of work though. We mainly focus on engineering tasks for local industries. It’s a small team here, just a handful of us. We spend most of the day in our overalls, getting our hands dirty with the lathes and grinders. The floor is always covered in metal shavings. We don't have a front desk or a secretary. If you come by, you’ll probably just find me or one of the boys working in the back. We do what we can with the tools we have. It’s not a high-tech factory, just a solid workshop. We’ve seen the neighborhood change a lot over the years, but we’ve stayed right here in this spot. We like being local. It means we know the people we work for. Sometimes they just stop by for a chat while we work. It’s a simple life. We make parts, we fix things, and we go home at the end of the day. That’s about it for us. We don't need much more than some good steel and machines that run properly. It's just a regular Punjab workshop doing regular work for regular people.