Verma Rice & General Mill

You can find Verma Rice & General Mill right on the G.T. Road, NH No. 1, in the Khanna area of Ludhiana district. It’s a very busy spot because of the highway. There is never a moment of silence with the trucks and buses roaring past at all hours. We handle a lot of different types of milling here, not just rice. The facility is fairly large to accommodate the scale of work we do. It’s a lot of metal, concrete, and dust. We don't try to make it sound like something it isn't. It’s a workplace where things get dirty and the work is physically demanding. My family has been at this location for a long time. We've seen the highway get wider and the traffic get heavier. We have a team of workers who stay in the quarters nearby. During the harvest, we are working almost twenty-four hours a day to keep up with the supply. It’s a bit of a madhouse then, but we manage to stay organized with our chalkboards and paper logs. We don't have any fancy mission statements. Our goal is just to process the grain and keep the machines from seizing up. The tea stall across the road is where we get most of our meals when things are hectic. It’s a practical, rough-around-the-edges kind of life, but it suits us just fine. We just keep moving.