Monday, May 16, 2005

Visit to Chittorgarh, Kota and Bundi

I first have a chance to visit Chittorgarh on a farewell meet of Mr. Sunil Malhotra ( Outgoing RM and an alum of my Engineering College - REC Kurukshetra). Capt. Sanjay kumar is another alum of my college in the same officer. He is sales officer for Udaipur at that time. He got a reassignment as OSD (officer on Special Duty). THere is a lot of surpurise element to this posting of his.

Well, the party was organised in a very elegant manner by then sales officer of Kota Mr. Vineet Pohani. A very sharp guy, who really scared me with the descriptions of assigments, which really had the blues out of me.

Mr. Singhal seems like a tough boss, with very little hairs. I found a smuggness in the parties of HPCL and the same was here. Same old late nighters...

Well the most important thing was I had a chance to visit a lot of Highway outlets and the typical issues related to fuel retailing.

One outlet was bypassed by the highway and Mr. Singhal told me that I have to look for solutions to revive this particular outlet.

The greeener in Kota and Bundi really surpurised me - RAJASTHAN IS NOT THAT DRY AS I WAS EXPECTING.

Most of the dealer were equivalent to same old age baniyas. Then we visited to Rajasthan - MP border at Place called Mandsore. This particular stretch has about 30 outlets of the industry in a stretch of 14 kms. Of these 2 were Reliance, standing tall and with evident claims of highest sales in the stretch, towering to 100 Kl per day.

All this really pushed up my aderaline. Reliance has really made the case interesting for us and yes Challengign as well.