National Productivity Council

The office is over in the Institutional Area on Lodi Road. It’s a big building called Utpadakta Bhawan, numbers 5 and 6. If you're coming from the main road, it’s not too hard to find, but the traffic around New Delhi 110003 can be a real headache in the mornings. We usually get in early to avoid the worst of it. Inside the National Productivity Council, it’s mostly just rows of desks and a lot of filing cabinets. We’ve got computers that hum all day long. The air conditioning works most of the time, though it gets a bit chilly in the back corner near the window. We have a lot of meetings. Most of them are just about schedules and how to get things moving faster. It’s a lot of talk about efficiency, which is funny because the elevators are so slow. We eat lunch at our desks or sometimes walk down the street if the weather isn't too hot. There are a lot of other offices around here, so it’s always busy during the day. By five or six, the whole area starts to empty out. We usually stay a bit later to finish up the paperwork. It’s a lot of reading and writing reports. Not very exciting to look at, but it’s what we do. The lobby has some old plants that someone forgets to water occasionally. We do our best to keep things tidy for whoever comes in next.