My tryst with Bhoruka Steel

One of the earliest organizations to interview  me was Bhouka Steel Ltd. This was a nice experience and served as a fillip to my second interview at BPL .The entire story is  in August of 1986 and some coincidence of  circumstances.

The name Bhoruka Steel is nothing new to me. It used to be a mini steel plant located at Mahadevapura on White Field road. As a child    I used to ride a bicycle all the way from my home to this factory and back.. Bhoruka Steel used to be a mini steel plant that flourished here from 1970 to around 1995 or so…the years mentioned may not be very accurate but fairly close to facts.

The placement office at REC Calicut put up a notice stating that students of the  Karnataka region need to apply for a post at this Steel company..which I did and was shortlisted for interview.This saw me making an emergency dash to Bangalore…and the date is 14^th of August 1986….and the interview was scheduled on the 16^th of August 1986 at Hitananda Chambers on Lavelle Road. I think I took the KSTDC bus frtom Calicut to Bangalore and Sheela Furtado and her friend was also there in the bus on that day..I did not know where Lavelle road was and my father explained it to me and I found myself at the office on Lavelle road at the stipulated time. I was led into a large conference hall and two gentlemen spoke to me for about half an hour.

This event was special to me as it was the first interview so to say I underwent  and gave me the confidence to get selected by BPL later.

Thank you  Bhoruka  Steel for this opportunity and thank God for all such experiences.

KSTDC...KARNATAKA STATE TOURISM DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION

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...The above is a KSTDC  bus..KSTDC means  KARNATAKA STATE TOURISM DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION. It has an office at George Oakes Building  near City Market opposite BBMP at N R Square. The word George Oakes would need some research as to what transpired in this building in Victorian days..apparently it must have been some kind of a trading office.This building is also called Badami House.Contact Phone - ( 080) 4334 4334

This KSTDC bus station fills me with nostalgia..there used to be a KSTDC bus to CALICUT in the late 1980.s only to be discontinued later and I have traveled by these buses many times and the Calicut buses were largely luxurious and comfortable. One good thing to my observation  is that these buses are never late .

On the 14th of August 1986 I was travelling from Calicut to Bangalore in a KSTDC bus....there was a junior male student alongside and Sheela Furtado and a junior architecture female student who lived somewhere near Cox town were seated in the front seats. Somewhere as the bus approached the Bandipur forests trucks and buses approaching from the opposite direction were constantly warning us of a lone tusker somewhere adjacent to the road. Many a times I have encountered Elephants on this route in the day-time but this was in the night around 2 -o-clock and I being of a more inquisitive variety moved into the drivers cabin and could see the tusker on the road almost into half of the road but the driver of the bus who appeared to be adept to such occurrences did not halt but deviated around the elephant in a quick swirl and sped ahead.

I must have traveled by these buses many times..and remember learning to draw a pin-type insulator sitting in the waiting hall of this bus station and noting to my charm that the same question appeared in the Drawing Exam next morning.

I don't know how the Services are now...KSTDC regularly conducts various kinds of tours. Please visit the web site  http://www.karnatakaholidays.net/      and travelling by them at-least once is worth-the-while.

NOTE:THE NEW LOCATION OF THE HEAD OFFICE OF KSTDC IS IN THE BASEMENT OF YESHWANTPUR  BMTC BUS TERMINAL CLOSE TO SOAP FACTORY METRO STATION.THE NEW WEB ID OF KSTDC IS kstdc.co  AND CONTACT NUMBER (080)4334 4334.