User:Refaircargo/Prakaash Jumaani

Born 29th December 1955 at Sholapur in Maharashtra, started working at the age of 15 in the dream city of Bombay. Working 16 hours a day without any holiday at a 3 star hotel in Colaba, was also pursuing his studies at HR College of Commerce in the morning session. Was discouraged by elder brother to continue studies, hence gave up a brilliant academic career midway to continue working. However, rejoined the studies next year and changed the job to part time, which again got changed next year to full time in an engineering company located at Worli with works at Jacob Circle. In June 1974, was emotionally blackmailed by this same elder brother into leaving a thriving and promising future to join brother at Hyderabad, A.P., where he started slogging to build up an Icecream Factory for his family, continuing his education through correspondence course on the side. The carrot dangled, very soon came to naught, when in 1979, immediately after his marriage, when the company had made unprecedented profits and was liable for a very high income tax, he questioned his brother about the promised el-dorado, and was chucked out un-ceremoniously without even the customary bye bye or any financial settlement. With nowhere to go, he sought the help of his in-laws in Bombay for shelter and lived with them temporarily for about 9 months. Without any resources for managing housing in Bombay, he was forced to join a HVRAC firm in Jullundur, Punjab, who were in dire taxation straits. He solved their problems within 6 months and the company after extracting the requisite juices chose to forsake him, by asking him to market the products in the South India. Here again, when they saw the bumper orders, they chose to use the double crossing route and started supplying direct to the customers, bypassing him totally leaving him high and dry. Left with no choice, he came back to Hyderabad and started his appliances sales & service show room, procuring the refrigeration appliances from other manufacturers from Jullundur, Punjab. Here too the double cross was at work all the time and he somehow managed to pull on with them for about 3 years, when the one way dues became too unbearable. Unable to recover his dues from these unscrupulous people he cut off his relations with them and shifted to another owned place at Somajiguda, Hyderabad and started the manufacture of window air conditioners and other specialized HVRAC consultancy. He had continued with his education paralelly and had secured the degrees of M.Com., M.Tech. as well as MBA by now. What he could not master however, was the art of judging people and kept on trusting them one after another, getting cheated repeatedly by all and sundry. He made first of its kind 3 phase industrial window air conditioners. However, the customers and employees continued to cheat him, leaving him with no other option but to tone down this activity too. He had made the country's first Mini Reefer and had successfully developed the working design of a Reefer Tanker, which he could not realize for want of funds. Scouting around for a collaborator, in 1997, he joined a supposedly renowned defense manufacturer and supplier having their office at Secunderabad as a consultant, which soon got transpired to a defacto partnership for manufacture of the Environmental Control Units for the Indian Army and other defense establishments. This too was a one-way partnership, where he was going on investing his manpower, machinery and monies to develop the product and get it accepted by the end user, without getting back even the investment with the promise of a carrot dangled all the while. In 2004 after making unprecedentedly successful supply of the self developed and manufactured E.C.U.s to Israel Aircraft Industry, resulting in their repeat order for a much larger and prestigious project and securing a massive order for retro-fitting the defunct fleet of communication shelters of the EME wing of the Indian Army, apart from a host of orders from other prestigious customers, this so called reliable supplier showed his true colors, yet again double-crossing him, having all the blue prints and drawings in his computers for free and a massive amount payable to PJ for past dues, resulting yet again in severance without any summary good bye. In all these 40 years' struggle of working life, the only saving grace that PJ can show is his two children - a son - a B.E., M.B.A., working in a reputed MNC company in Chennai and a daughter - a B.Sc., M.B.A., working with a reputed international MNC at Bombay, apart from his wife Jaya, whom he is happily married to for over 31 years now.