National Environmental Engineering Research Institute

Our place is at Qrt No 34 A, Sector 7 in Balco Nagar, which is in the Korba district of Chhattisgarh. The pin code is 495684. Being in a place like Korba means we are right in the middle of a big industrial zone. Our office is a simple staff quarter that we have repurposed for our environmental engineering work. It is not fancy at all. The walls are plain, and the floors are just standard concrete. We spend a lot of our time monitoring things around the Balco area. It is a lot of field work, so the office is mostly a place to store our tools and write up what we find in our reports. There is a small kitchen where we make tea, and that is about it for the amenities. The neighbors are mostly people who work for the plants nearby. It is a tight-knit community in Sector 7. We do not have a big budget for making the place look pretty. We would rather spend that money on our research equipment. Sometimes the dust from the nearby industries gets into the office, so we are always cleaning things off the desks. It is just how it is here. We are a small team and we like the quiet of this particular quarter. It is a basic, functional space for people who do not mind getting their hands a bit dirty with field research.