Nine months in Kirloskarvadi
Wing Commander Amarjit Singh Bindra
Commanders Organic Farm Organic Farms & Food Forests
I was destined to be there -That is what I thought when I went there to Kirloskarvadi.
Kirloskarvadi is a green oasis in the middle of nowhere. It is located in Sangli district near Kolhapur.
As the Story goes Great grand father of Mr. Sanjay Kirloskar migrated from Belgaum in Karnataka to find work there. The Kirloskarvadi factory began with making agricultural equipment & slowly graduated to making World class pumps & today is a major pump producer in India.
Today they do a lot of pathbreaking work & support our Dams, Industry as well as buildings like Burj Khalifa in Dubai.
I came - I saw - & fell in love with Kirloskarvadi in the first instance. It is a real Green Goddess with millions of Trees, plants, fruit bearing trees , Sandal wood, Mango. Coconut, Tamarind, Bamboo - In fact the list is endless.
The flowers which have a wide variety are Hibiscus, Roses, Lotus, jasmine, marigold, Aparajita - again the list is endless.
Kirloskarvadi has some beautiful houses with Mangalore tiles reminding us of good old days & How farsighted visionaries were Kirloskars to provide such facilities a 100 years back to their workers.
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This was a great opportunity given to me by Mr. Sanjay Kirloskar to upgrade the 100 years old township & make it sustainable. We did that & tried to upgrade the infrastructure, processes & facilities for all the users which included residents of Vadi, factory workers, our guests & many times Foreign guests & dignitaries from the Govt. of India.
The story continues - I will tell you more about Life & rich traditions of Marathis & Maharashtra & how we engaged with children of Kirloskarvadi.
Also the Yoga classes & the Yoga teacher & of course the Pizzeria which we started there for residents.
Retires Scientist G & Scientist In charge MERADO Ludhiana CSIR / CMERI and Ex Commander (Indian Navy)
2 年Admire efforts. lovely message : We need to create the kind of nature, where we would like to live.
CEO at Magnus Realty
2 年Indeed it is sir!
CEO at Magnus Realty
2 年My father was CEO of Dandekar Machine Works, a Kirloskar Company at Bhiwandi, near Thane. That also was a lovely 30 acre campus and we had a beautiful bungalow on half an acre of land on the campus. There were bungalows for the managers as well, all set in a lovely green campus. I was fortunate enough to meet both Mr. S. L. Kirloskar and C.S. Kirloskar on their visits to Bhiwandi, when they would have lunch with my parents. Atul and Sanjay were my seniors in school and Rahul was my junior. The Kirloskar have it in them to respect the environment and even their factories in Pune have lovely green campuses