Omkar Engineering Works

Omkar Engineering Works is over in Pimpri at 2/21/58/59. It’s a workshop, so it’s usually pretty loud and smells like metal and oil. We have a few lathes and some welding equipment. It’s not the cleanest place you’ll ever see. There are metal shavings on the floor and grease marks on the walls. Most of the day is spent fixing parts or cutting metal to size for local projects. My hands are almost always black from the machines, no matter how much I wash them. We deal with all sorts of people, from guys fixing their tractors to people needing a gate repaired. It’s heavy work. We don't have an office or a waiting room. You just come into the shop and talk to us over the sound of the machines. Sometimes we have to shout to be heard. The roof is corrugated metal, so when it rains, you can't hear a thing. We've been at this spot for a while now. The equipment is old but we know how to use it well. We don't have a brochure or any marketing. People just find us by word of mouth when they have something that needs a bit of metalwork or a repair. It’s just honest, hard work from morning until evening. We close up when the light gets too low to see what we are doing clearly. That's just the daily grind here.