My First Day at Nasik and The first Day at Job

I reached Nasik early in the morning by the famous Calcutta Mail on the 1st May 1976. I had found about a lodge, which provided accommodation to working bachelors. It was ‘Sarai’Lodge in the Gole Colony of Nasik owned by one Mr Patwardhan. That was an old banglow converted in to the lodge with the help of partitions I was provided a shared accommodation on the back side of the banglow probably originally meant for servants the owner. This was on twin sharing basis and my room mated was one Mr Giri a Foreman in MICO. There were some more employees of MICO in the same lodge I clearly remember name of a Gujarathi gentleman named Chavda. I stayed in that lodge for a day only as Chavda introduced me to two gentlemen Mr D K Mehta and M M Khandekar who had joined MICO couple of months back as a Graduate Trainee Engineers like me. They were living in a different loge it was “Sana” loge named so by its owner Mr Abhyankar after some African word, there again I was given accommodation on the first day on the backside of the loge on twin sharing basis later on I came to room adjacent to Mehta and Khandekar in the front. I was in room no 1 of the ten rooms in that old styled banglow. Next day along with Mehta and Khandekar I reported to the personnel department of the company. I was directed to report to Mr P N Patankar incharge of Industrial Engineering in the planning department I was also introduced to one Mr K Janardan incharge of Nozzles process Planning Initially. I was given a task of carrying on work sampling in the maintenance. Shop workers work sampling is a kind survey carried out to determine the percentage utilization of man or machine. I had read about work sampling in the subject of Industrial Engineering in the final year but this was a practical on the job. I found about the small library in the factory got me issued couple of books on Industrial Engineering to study the process of work sampling on the same day I was issued couple of white aprons by the stores.
In the evening along with Mehta and Khandekar I went to the Narottam Bhuwan centorium. It was a sort of mess run by a Gujrathi family in Panchwati area of Nasik and they prepared very homely food. This place become our permanent joint for evening meals before marriage
Continued in next blog.