 His uncle, Lala Gopal Rai, had been playing with the idea of a textile mill for some time but he was only a munim - a kind of private secretary - working in a pedhi, though his family was fairly well-to-do, if not exactly affluent.Within a few years of Shri Ram's birth, however, things had started moving and the Lahore Tribune carried the brief news items in its issue of February 28, 1891, under the heading, "Local and Provincial"- The opening ceremony of Delhi Cloth and General Mills Co Ltd will take place on Monday 2 March at 3 pm.The story of DCM is in essence the story of its secretaries.