Sanjay Steel Centre

Sanjay Steel Centre is located at 21/33 Khetwadi on the Ground Floor of the Kammu Yakub Building. Khetwadi is full of these old buildings and narrow lanes, and our shop is right in the middle of it all. Being on the ground floor makes it easier because steel is heavy and nobody wants to carry it up stairs. We have all sorts of steel items stacked up against the walls. It’s a bit dark inside sometimes, even during the day, so we keep the lights on. The shop isn't very big, but we manage to fit quite a lot of stock in there. You can hear the sound of metal clinking and the traffic from the street outside all day long. We have been here for years, and the Kammu Yakub Building is well-known around here. We usually start our day early, opening the shutters and sweeping out the front. There’s no fancy air conditioning, just a pedestal fan that we move around depending on where we are sitting. Most of our customers are locals or contractors who need specific steel parts for their work. We don't do much advertising; people just walk in because they see the steel pipes or sheets standing near the door. It is a simple way of working, just manual labor and keeping track of the inventory in our old ledger books.