Gian Chand Banarsi Lal Rice Mills

Our place is located on Dadwan Road. It has been pretty much the same for as long as I can remember. We are a rice mill, so the daily work is very straightforward. We get the raw product in, we process it, and then it goes right back out the door. It sounds simple when you say it like that, but there is actually a lot that can go wrong with the machinery on any given day. We spend a significant amount of our time just maintaining things and oiling the parts. The building itself is quite old and has a lot of character. We have not changed much about the layout over the years because it works for us. There is really no need to fix something that isn’t broken. We are just a bunch of regular people working here together. Some of the staff have been with the mill for decades. We spend our breaks talking about the weather or how the crops are doing this season. It is a local operation through and through. We do not have any fancy brochures to hand out. Most people find us because they have known our family name for a long time. It is a bit dusty, and the noise of the hullers is constant during the day. You learn to speak up to be heard over the hum. We just run the mill.