Rahul Steel

We have been operating out of Survey No. 22 in the MIDC area of Pimpri for quite a few years now. Rahul Steel is a straightforward operation. We don't have a fancy air-conditioned showroom or people in suits walking around. Most of the time, we are wearing old clothes because the steel dust gets everywhere. It’s a noisy place with the sounds of trucks and cutting machines from the neighbors, but that is just how life is in the industrial zone. We deal with all sorts of steel pieces and local builders come to us because they know we are reliable. We keep our stock in the yard, and sometimes it gets a bit crowded when a new shipment arrives. My father started this, and now we just keep it going as best as we can. There are days when the heat under the tin roof is almost too much, but we just drink some water and keep moving. We don't use any complicated software to run the shop; we mostly rely on our old ledgers and our memory of what we have in stock. It’s a hard way to earn a living, but there is a certain satisfaction in seeing the trucks loaded up and heading out to a construction site. We are just local people doing a job we know well and trying to make it work in Pimpri.