Ambuja Cement Holsim

Raipur is getting bigger every day, but Sunder Nagar still feels like a neighborhood. Our office in Maa Amba Nivas is basically a converted living room. We’ve got a big wooden table where we spread out all the blueprints and delivery schedules. The ceiling fan makes a clicking sound on the medium setting, so we usually keep it on high or low. It’s just us here, a couple of guys handling the local orders. We don’t have any fancy uniforms or name tags. Most days we just wear regular shirts and trousers. Outside, there’s a small garden that we try to keep green, but the Raipur sun usually wins that battle. We get people from all over Chhattisgarh calling us up. Sometimes it’s hard to keep track of every single bag of cement, but we have a system that works for us. It’s mostly written down in big registers. We don’t trust the computers too much when the power is so unpredictable. When the lights go out, we just open the windows and keep talking. It’s a very relaxed environment. We don’t have any big corporate meetings or anything. We just decide what needs to be done over a cup of chai and then we do it. It’s a practical way to live and work. We have a small dog that hangs around the gate too, just watching the street. Sometimes we share our lunch with him if he's lucky.