NEW YEAR GREETINGS

This is going on for some time now.

The Bombay Pune Highway has a grade separator now. Once I am in the fast moving lane there is no stopping. I reach the factory in . what .. 10 mins max..

But every now and then I like to take the age old route. The one through Yamuna Nagar... HDFC colony, Kamalnayan Bajaj School, Rudra Hotel, Stone Mine, Pimpi gasses ( the turn that leads to the swimming pool).
I have traveled on this route in every possible way ... I have walked .. I have cycled ... taken a tumtum/6 seater ... bike... auto riksha ... you name and I have had it..

The most mesmerizing site for me on this road it the gate of TATA MOTORS.. That part of the road between KSB pumps and Pimpri Gases. It is the F2 block.. It is TATA MOTORS.

You have the India Car plant. Next to it is the Commercial vehicle plant established 30 years ago. One the other hand you have the Telco, the school and the yard where the vehicles ready for dispatch are parked.

A few years TELCO, as it was called then, constructed an underground tunnel to shift their finished products in the parking yard across the road.

Since past few weeks I watch those cars/ LMV, LCV, HCV lying idle in the park yard. It is full to its capacity. So the newly manufactured cars are parked alongside the roads of TML.

Every morning I watch this.. I feel horrible.
The market is down. TML is manufacturing to attain yearly targets but its not selling anything. So in the few days the production will be down. That means no business. Ahhh... the recession, they say... it is obvious. What will we be doing then ... The mind is clouded.

Then I reach the factory. There is a whole lot of things to be done.. The schedules are pending. I yell at the Production in charge to work 24 by 7. There is a material shortage. I call the Purchase In charge.. get the list of pending orders. Check their status.
' I dont want to see you in the factory premises untill I see this material ready for production"
The accountant shows me the list of over due payments. The figure is astounding .. So now I have to talk to them to get the payments.

Then I get a few calls from the customers.. Their line have been stopped cos of shortage of springs. So I sit with the PPC and reschedule all the production plans.
Some springs have a quality problem so the customer’s ‘team’ is surrounding me.

There are a number of new enquires that need my attention. A few samples are urgent.

‘Urgent’ is the word that I hear more than ‘Springs’.

Its 4.30 pm . I think I have done for the day … so let me have my lunch.
I open my lunch box and there enters the marketing man.
“ This party wants x% discount. Is it feasible”
“ Ok let me check” .. the lunch box can wait.

So finally its 5.30 … everyone has left .. I am enjoying my lunch.
The call come from the security … some visitor is waiting for me.

At 6.00 in the evening.. he needs to develop a component .. “ urgently”
So I sit with the operator and get it done. The development in charge has made his pregnant wife wait for him alone in the house.

Finally its 9.30 … I take time to go home.
On my way I see TML again.. the unsold cars are piling up..
There is recession ..
The fear is gone. Now this sight makes me feel better.
May be I will find time to relax…

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL…
I WISH THE NEW YEAR BRINGS YOU A LOT OF BUSINESS AND IN TIME PAYMENTS.