Pradeep Stove Industries

Our workshop is right across from the ICICI Bank in Rampura Bazar. It’s a loud place most of the time because we are working with metal and tools to put stoves together. We make different kinds of stoves for people to use in their kitchens or for bigger setups. The floor is usually covered in metal scraps and we’ve got tools hanging all over the walls. It’s not a clean, shiny office. It’s a place where work actually gets done. We’ve got the smell of grease and metal in the air all day. Rampura Bazar is always crowded, so there’s always noise coming in from the street too. We’ve been here quite a while. We aren't interested in making things look fancy; we just want the stoves to work like they are supposed to. People from the nearby villages and the town come in to buy what they need. Sometimes we’re busy welding, other times we are just moving heavy boxes around. We don't have any salespeople in suits. You just talk to whoever is free at the moment. It’s a straightforward business. We show up, we make the stoves, and we go home when the work is finished. It’s a bit hot near the back where the heavy work happens, but that’s just part of the job. We've been doing this for a long time and we just keep at it day after day without much fuss.