Patel Poha Udyog

We are out here in the industrial area at Garra Chowk. If you know Balaghat, you know it can get pretty dusty around the Garra area with all the trucks coming and going. Patel Poha Udyog is basically a place where we process grain and get it ready for people to eat. It’s a lot of manual labor. The machines are loud and they run for most of the day. We’ve got a small crew of guys from the nearby villages who help out. It's not the kind of job where you stay clean. By the end of the shift, everyone is covered in a bit of dust. We don't have an office with air conditioning or anything like that. We just have the shed and the machinery. Sometimes the power goes out and we have to sit around and wait for it to come back on, which is frustrating when we have orders to finish. But that’s just how it is in this part of the district. We focus on getting the poha right. It takes a lot of watching the temperature and the texture. We aren't trying to be the biggest factory in the world, just a steady one. The location at Garra Chowk is good because the transport can get to us easily. We work hard, go home tired, and come back the next morning to do it all over again.