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Ajanta, Amul and Samooha - Part 1
I wanted to write this for long but there is no better time than now to sit down to express this.
This would be first in a two part blog entries related to this topic very close to my heart.
In early 90s I served in Ajanta Clocks in the remote town of Morbi near Rajkot. It was one of the best experiences of my experiments with life. I had two offers at a time while taking up the position at Ajanta. I chose Ajanta to manage their Tool Room than being a Junior Technical Officer at VIP Industries at Nasik in a hierarchical structure.
Ajanta was a family run business and there were 8 brothers or cousins from 3 families managing the show. The most influential, then, amongst them was Shri. Pravin Bhai Bhalodia. He could be termed the Managing Director and was actually called back from his second year in BE as the founder Shri. Odhavji Bhai R Patel and the family needed many working hands to run the operations. Shri Odhavji Bhai himself was a teacher cum entrepreneur who made those age old mechanical clocks which I remember to be winding until the coil spring broke!
