Last Saturday, 21st January, we had our office Picnic at Prime. The venue was little outside of the city on the Bank of Ganges. It is actually a day-out destination named Ganga Bitan Homely at Uluberia.
This financial year 2022-23, we were planning various different initiatives for internal bonding, engagement inside team to emerge as a bigger brand to penetrate globally. “Built in Bengal and Serve Global” is the vision for Prime V2.0, in spite of sitting the negatives inside the community, where the thoughts are nothing can be done in Bengal. However, we are surviving since last 13years and fighting back sticking to our global headquarters in Kolkata, 2nd largest and important city of British India. In line with the same, we had our sales conference on 14th April with “Good to Great” workshop. In between we had regular celebrations on Birthdays, casual fun with events, parties etc. Once winter arrived, Picnic was already in the Radar with main objective to a fun day along with family outside office and beyond work. Office is a place, we spend most of our day in a 24hrs span, after home. Hence the place needs to be beyond a workspace so that it is part of extended family and off course beyond money and work. The same can only happen when get connected with our family members, spouses, kids, parents and relatives. We can be of any help to each other mentally, morally even for a personal, family problems. In order to do that Office needs to be place of Fun where we can enjoy, share problems, get solutions, get friends-guides-mentors. This can only be established through out of office activities. I am a vivid believer of old school thoughts which I have seen 30/40 years back like Office sports, picnic, cultural programs, drama, songs, outbound travel with family etc which I had experienced on my father’s office.
Anyways, Picnic this year was conceptualized almost a month back. Finding out the venue, planning for menus, organizing the vehicle etc were organized by the Team professionally and smartly.
Finally on the day two 25-seater traveler bus and 2 private vehicles started at around 8.30am towards the venue. Two buses were stationed one at Airport and the other at Exide to cover both North and South participants respectively. It was around 2hours drive from Airport. To reach Ganga Bitan homely, we had to take 2nd Hooghly bridge from south/ Nibedita Setu from north then take Bombay Road NH 16 towards Uluberia. Once driven from Uluberia flyover to Goruhata more, we took right towards Ulughata 58 gate ,vent (garchumuk). On the way, first we got Mohini more and then Belari More. From here, we took left Village Road to reach Ganga Bitan project , on Ganga Bitan Complex, Plot A-1 is GANGA BITAN HOMELY.
We all reached around 10.30am total around 50 people. Few of the members could not join as pre-occupied or health hazards and the members from other parts of the country surely got missed due to locational proximity.
Once we roamed around the property for few moments, we all rushed to breakfast. The menu was comprising of Green Peas Kachuri (karaishooti Kachuri), Potato Curry (Aloo Dum), Boiled Egg, Sweets (Seasonal Sandesh).
On completion of the breakfast, team got settled in distributed manner, few got relaxed inside rooms (there were three well furnished rooms, one in the ground floor and two in the first floor), few went to the field besides the river with cricket, football, badminton etc. Few kept on roaming here and there, while few others engaged in casual gossiping.
Meanwhile at around 12.30pm hot vegetables fry and chicken fry got severed along with liquor and milk tea. Sprite and Thumps up were also there to accompany for few enthusiasts.
Post this small break again people got engaged in freaking out in the field besides the bank of river. In between we got a cake cutting session to celebrate the success as a Team. After a while, there are Cake cutting session as well to celebrate the occassion.
Finally, at 3pm, we reassembled for Lunch. Menu was sumptuous and mouthwatering with Rice, Daal, Fried Potatoes (Aloo Bhaji), Cauliflower Curry (Aloo Gobi), Fish (Katla Kalia), Mutton, Chatni, Papad & Sweets. It was so delicious and heavy, most of us couldn’t go back to the field even though we wanted to. Hence post lunch session mostly spent on gossiping, casual talks, music and kids dance.
Finally, it came to a end as all good things doesn’t last long. Around 4.30pm we had our evening Tea and bid adieu to our Day-Out spot. With the gratitude to river Ganges, we aspired to have similar outbounds along with team and their families in a much larger duration (possibly a nigh halt) so that we can cherish the colors of nature in different phases of day and night.
We all got rejuvenated and promised ourselves to have better interlock internally and surge ahead together to serve our customers in a better way so that Company will not only grow, we all will be the part of that journey with vision “Born in Bengal, Rising Global”.
Here is the Full Album of the event