Anitha Earth Movers

You can find us at number 16 in Vivekananda Nagar, right there in the Ellaipllaichavady area. It’s a quiet enough street most of the time until we start up the heavy engines. We’ve been operating Anitha Earth Movers out of Nellithope for a long time now. It’s a family-run kind of thing, really. My nephew helps with the paperwork and I stay out with the machines. We have a couple of backhoes and some other gear that we keep in the lot. It’s not a polished showroom. There are spare parts lying around and some old tires stacked in the corner. We spend a lot of time just maintaining the equipment because the dust around here really gets into everything. People from the neighborhood know us by name and they just drop by when they have a project. We don't do much advertising. Usually, someone just tells their neighbor about us. We drink a lot of water and sit under the shade of the big tree out front during the lunch hour. The work is physical and some days are longer than others depending on where the machines are sent. We just focus on getting the machinery to the site on time and making sure the fuel tanks are full. It's a basic life but it keeps us busy and we like being part of the local scene here.