Billing for your stationery and book shop in Silvassa, Daman and Diu
The school's book list, the factory office's register and the pen a child buys in the evening, on one phone.
From the bag on a family's page to the haat day of the reopening week
The bag and the geometry box on the family's page until the wage day
The bag and the geometry box are the costly part of a school list, and a family pays for them when the wage comes. Open a page in the parent's name. The bill for the day goes on it, the payment is written beside it when it comes, and the pens and notebooks are bought for cash as usual.
Two crowds in the year: June's parents and each month's first-week offices
The daily report keeps every day of the year. Read it by month and two crowds show: the parents in June, and the factory offices that order in the first week of every month. Stock the textbooks and notebooks for the one, and the registers and files for the other, so neither crowd finds the other's shelf in its place.
Haat day, when the village families come down together and buy for every child
On haat day the village families come down together, and a mother buys pens for all her children, one after another. Make each pen an item sold by the piece, and tap the number for each child. The line is one tap per child, and the queue behind her does not wait on the cash box.
Registers, files and bill books for hundreds of small units
Offices are where registers go, and in Daman the offices are in the industrial lanes.
- Kadaiya, Bhimpore and Dabhel are listed among the main industrial areas of Daman and Diu, which has hundreds of small-scale industries. Each unit has an office with a table, a register and a stack of bills, and a stationery counter near the lane is the place those come from.
The week the schools reopen, and the office that wants a GST bill for a register
One June day for the village schools and the town schools
The village schools and the town schools open on the same June day, and the families from the villages come down within the same few days, often on the haat day, with a list copied out by a child. A parent who has come down by bus will not come again for one missing item. By the end of the week you do not know which line you were short of most.
The office boy at lunch break with a list on his palm
The office boy of a small unit near the factories comes at lunch break with a list on his palm: foolscap, files, a stapler. The accounts need a bill with the tax shown, and he cannot wait while a handwritten slip is made out. A slip written by hand is returned for a proper one, and the sale goes to another shop.
The photocopier in the back and the queue it makes
At lunch break the office boys queue at the photocopier with files, and in the evening the students come with pages from borrowed books. The queue is longer than the one at the pens. The coins go into the drawer, and the ream behind the machine empties without anyone noting it, so at night you cannot say what the machine earned.
Tools for a counter that sells to parents, schools and offices
Orders to suppliers
The order to the publisher in May, and a smaller one for the books that ran out in the first week, each noted as it arrives so the shelf and the school's list agree.
Online orders
The shop's list of registers, files and pens online, for the factory office that orders the month's stationery by phone.
Credit book (khata)
A page for a village school whose lots go out with a teacher, a driver or a child, all on the one page.
Questions stationery and book shops in Silvassa, Daman and Diu ask
A mother from the village is leaving and one book on her list has not come. What do I tell her about the day to return?
Tell her the day the supplier's carton is due, as you wrote it on the supplier's page, and that you will send word on WhatsApp the day it is in. She picks the bus day that suits her and comes once.
The head teacher telephones the order on Monday and the van comes on Tuesday. Can the bill wait for Tuesday?
Yes. Make the bill when the goods leave, on the school's page, with Tuesday's date. The head teacher's clerk sees it on WhatsApp.
Pencils come in a box of a hundred, the school takes a box and children take one. Does the count follow?
Yes. Keep the pencil as the item. A box billed to the school is a hundred off the same count as the single one sold to a child.
A parent has only half the money for a geometry box on haat day. Can the box wait for the rest?
Make the bill for the box on the parent's page with the day, and write what is paid. The box count comes down now, and the rest is written on the same page when the parent next comes down.
A factory in a Daman lane orders a stack of bill books with its name printed. What bill does its accounts need?
Make the bill with GST worked out, the bill books and the printing as two lines, so the factory's accounts have the tax shown. Share it on WhatsApp the day the bill books come back from the press.
Free notebooks for tribal students and the 337 schools of Dadra and Nagar Haveli
Tribal students in Dadra and Nagar Haveli get free mid-day meals, free exercise notebooks, textbooks and teaching aids, says the Silvassa Smart City vision report. So a stationery shop here sells to children whose notebooks and textbooks may come free, and the pens, the geometry box and the school bag are what the family pays for.
After liberation the administration set up 337 schools in Dadra and Nagar Haveli, raising literacy to 76.20 percent, says the Silvassa Smart City vision report. Every one of those schools is a customer for chalk, registers and notice-board paper, and each opens on the same June day.