Rachna Industries

Miller Ganj is a crowded place, and we are right in the middle of it on Nirankari Street 5. Rachna Industries has been here since the 90s. We do a lot of small-scale manufacturing and assembly. The street is so narrow that sometimes the trucks can’t even turn around. We have to carry everything by hand to the main road, which is quite a distance. It’s a lot of physical work. Inside the shop, it’s quite dark but we have bright lights over the workbenches. We have about five or six people working here at any given time. We make various items depending on what the current demand is in the market. Usually, it's small metal components or plastic parts. We don't have a big marketing budget or a sales team. We just rely on the things we make and the relationships we’ve built over twenty years. My son helps out with the accounts now, which is a big help because the paperwork was getting to be too much for me. We drink a lot of tea and talk about the news while we work. It’s not a glamorous life, but it’s our life. We’ve seen many shops come and go on Street 5, but we’ve managed to keep our doors open through it all.