Naxalbari Flour & Rice Mill Pvt. Ltd.

Working at the Naxalbari Flour & Rice Mill means being right on the NH 31C. Since we are in South Rathkhola, we get a lot of noise from the highway traffic. It is a busy spot in Darjeeling district. We handle both wheat and rice, so there is always a different kind of dust in the air depending on the day. The building is a big concrete structure that has seen better days, but it does what it needs to do. We have some newer machines now, but some of the old ones still work the best if you know how to handle them. The rain in this part of West Bengal is no joke, so we spend a lot of time making sure the grain stays dry. We aren’t trying to be the biggest company out there. We just want to make sure the bags are filled correctly. The staff mostly comes from the nearby villages, and we have all worked together for a long time. Sometimes the power goes out and we all just sit around and wait for it to come back on. That is just how it goes here. We don’t have a corporate office with air conditioning. Our office is just a desk with a fan and a lot of logbooks. It is a practical business for a practical place like Naxalbari. We focus on the grain and the daily grind of running a mill.