ACcidents. In Life

Today is Gudhi Padva the first day of Hindu new year,in our city Jalgaon today it is being celebrated visit of the President of the country Mahamahim Pratibhatai Patil, she would be staying in the coming two days and would be inaugurating the local airport as well as few private projects of hospital and education,hope the traffic is managed well by the authorities without causing inconvenience to the citizen of the city

After a gap of almost one year i am writing this blog myself till last year i used to take help of one of my assistants at the distributorship,the year, if co -related to financial year has been much better, the growth in business continues,undoubted if one has objectives clearly defined and the efforts are put in sustained manner the results are achieved automatically, in personal life also if i look back i find that i have got whatever any body at my age of 58 would like to have, sound health,accept border line diabetes, good caring wife both the children already married and settled both highly qualified, though daughter Rashmi preferred to settle as housewife even after graduating in Electronics Engineering ,already has two daughters son Rahul very well at his job parallely looking after the family busines one thing in line with the famous TV add with children also ki Ab To Mere Khelne Ke Din Hai.

Rekha Gas Agency 30th anniversary function

Last full week has been hectic for arranging the programme of gas agency 30th anniversary as well as preperation for filing the pressure testing tender of our company. Fortunately both the things went off well the programme of 30th anniversary of Rekha Gas Agency was indeed memorable and heartering, Felicitating the customer who are our bread and butter is good deed for a businessman and the workers who have been working for so long for you doing laboreous work of carrying the weight of 32kgs of an LPG cylinder in all the weather and against all odds also deserved their felicitation. Conducting the Rangoli & Cooking competition envolving ladies with the help of Lioness was also a good thought. I could see the happiness on the face of Mr. Gudhe our TM and the other officers and above all on the faces of all my workers.

For the tender of pressure testing and painting of IOC Manmad Plant cylinder. We are the second lowest in the two parties who participated in the tender and naturally as per the tender conditions we are going to get 40% of the work for three years and that too is going to be satisfactory.

Informal engagement of Rahul

Aless today be receiving the coconut and some token money the engagement of Rahul was confirmed my Pragyan's uncle Dilipjee in presence of Shri. Rajeev his brother-in-law. I have just dropped them to the station for boarding Karnataka Express for Mathura. In fact in this engagement I give all credit to Chi. Bhuvan and Geetu because of whose initiative this could take place. In the conversation with Pragyas both uncles I have spelt out my wishes about future of Pragya taking over reins of Rekha Gas Agency as next generation. Any way it is left for Rahul and Pragya to decide after marriage. The formal engagement will take place on Dashahara and the marriage on 23rd of January most probably at Jalgaon.

Arrangement for Rahul’s Marriage

It is all settled that we will have to take the marriage party to Mathura respecting the feelings of the elderly people in Rahul’s inlaw family. The confusion is whether January or March I think March-after the examination of all the young’s in our family all over will be an ideal date that would be borderline of winter and summer and I know well that season in Delhi/ Mathura will be the best that time we will the best that time. We will have to plan so well that the stay of the marriage party is comfortable, a tour in that area also could be arranged, and Rahul can pay tribute to Thanwale Baba our Kuldevta at Holipura Continue in next blog

The switch over to LPG distribution business

My father-in-law had an excellent business sense. I was happily working as Planning Engineer in MICO, there were advertisement for gas agency i n 1980-81 by Bharat Petroleum for Nasik, Jalgaon, Nanded on advise from my father-in-law I applied for the distributorship of Nasik the interview was carried out by Mr. Shantisingh, Prabhakar Konte and other two officials of the two oil company. There was no oil selection board that time but the interviews were carried out by the joint committee headed why the Divisional Manager of the oil company seeking distributor and shor listed three promosing candidates and the person offering. The best as personal quality and infrastructure were offered the distributorship. In Nasik I was shortlisted but I believe the infrastructure was not appropriate so the distributorship was awarded to the other gentlemen Prakash Vaishampain who is my brother distributor at Nasik today my father-in-law was very keen about me entering into the business and I was made to apply for the Jalgaon distributorship which had good member of applicant and the interview panel was also same. The DM even asked me why I was so much after getting the gas distributorship I thought he was very well aware who is inspiring me for this profession. After the interview it was almost a month when I received a telephone call, from the receptionist asking me to come on line of external call handset, it used be in the maintanance manager Mr. Murthy's cabin. It was Mr. Shanti Singh on the line informing me about me being selected for Jalgaon distributorship. I was not sure what to say but I thanked him and informed my wife as well as my father-in-law and father. I admite today that I was not very much interested to come in to the business but after lot of persuation by all the family member I went to Pune to the Bharat Petroleum Corpn. Divisional Office to receive the letter of intent I remember my father-in-law was so anseious to know that when I was sitting with Mr. Singh for the LOI he made three lightening calls to a Parsi Bakery cum liquor shop opposite to the office. The servent of the shop fcame to the Division office to inform me about that and when I informed him about me accepting the LOI be must have been really happy. Continued in next blog...