Baba Priyedarshi Engicon Private Limited

Over in Snehil Tola, which is part of the larger Patna area, you can find our small office. It’s at the home of Sunil Kumar, who is the son of Bashishtha Singh. We have a simple sign-up, but mostly people just know we’re the ones doing the local engineering jobs. The neighborhood is fairly quiet compared to the city center, which is nice when we’re trying to focus on a complicated drawing or some technical specs. We spend most of our budget on the actual construction rather than on making the office look good. There are stacks of bricks and sand samples sitting by the door most days. We hire crews from the surrounding villages and they come in every morning to get their assignments. We don’t have a human resources department or any of that; we just know everyone by name and pay them at the end of the week. It’s a bit disorganized sometimes, especially when two or three different projects are going on at once, but we always manage to pull it together. The sun in Patna can be brutal in May, so we do a lot of our heavy lifting early on. We’re just regular folks trying to run a decent business without all the corporate nonsense. We have our regulars who come to us whenever they want to add a room to their house or fix a wall. It is a basic, local way of doing business.