The Bhilai Steel Plant (BSP) — the flagship unit of Maharatna company, Steel Authority of India ltd (SAIl) would soon set up an Online Effluent Quality Monitoring System (EQMS) along with data up-linking to Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) and Chhattisgarh Environment Conservation Board (CECB).
The system would be installed for Water Management Department of the Bhilai Steel Plant, officials stated.
The Bhilai Steel Plant received the Prime Minister’s Trophy for the Best Performing Integrated Steel Plant (ISP) in the country for the year 2011-12 at Rourkela in Odisha on Wednesday.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi presented the trophy for Best Integrated Steel Plant (ISP) in the country to the then SAIl Chairman CS Verma and Chief Executive Officer, BSP S Chandrasekaran in presence of Governor of Odisha SC Jamir, Union Minister for Mines & Steel, Narendra Singh Tomar and Chief Minister of Odisha, Naveen Patnaik.
With this, BSP achieved the unparalleled distinction of being the only steel plant in the country, public or private, to have received this recognition for 11 times out of 21 times. This speaks volumes about the dedication of the workforce of Bhilai Steel Plant, officials stated.
The award that also carries a cash reward of Rs2 crore is given to integrated steel plants (ISPs) on the basis of evaluation by a Panel of Judges appointed every year.
The coveted Prime Minister’s Trophy is awarded to an ISP for their total performance in respect of objective parameters, enabling parameters, customer satisfaction index and observation by the panel of judges based on plant visits.
SAIl’s Bhilai Plant has been ahead of other steel plants in the country in various parameters including productivity, profitability, quality, product development, systems, work culture, human resource development, deployment of IT-driven modern business tools, sustainability practices and corporate social responsibility.
Steel from Bhilai has gone into various strategic sectors and projects of national importance, such as defence, power, infrastructure, heavy machinery, oil and gas, railway, space sector, atomic energy among others.
The entire network of Indian Railways runs on rails supplied by Bhilai Steel Plant. The plant has been supplying rails since inception.
Indian Railways sources rails up to length of 260 metre from Bhilai.
Known for its culture of excellence and dedication to quality, the plant has achieved distinction in various enabling parameters including leadership, policy & strategy, people development, resource management & process management.
Its deployment of modern IT-driven business and knowledge tools to bring in excellence and continuous improvement in business performance, environment conservation, fulfillment of corporate social responsibilities & sustainability practices, among others, has
enabled it maintain a position of leadership in Indian Steel Industry.
Apart from the PM’s Trophy that Bhilai received for 2011-12, BSP had won the first two PM’s Trophies for the Years 1992-93 and 93-94.The plant then made a hat-trick by winning the Trophy for the years 95-96, 96-97 and 97-98. The Plant again won the trophy for two consecutive years in 2003-04 and 2004-05. This feat was again repeated when Bhilai won the Trophy for years 2006-07, 2007-08 and 2009-10.
Moreover, this year, achieving a major breakthrough in safety of large number of workers from gas leak episodes, the Bhilai Steel Plant had also changed about 17,284-meter long gas pipeline across the plant.
Since the gas pipeline spread across the plant area is considered to be the lifeline of BSP and plays a vital role, through it, regular gas supply of blast furnace, Coke Oven and Converter Gas is ensured and it is used in the form of fuel in various operations constantly undertaken for production in the plant, officials stated.
The Energy Management Department (EMD) of the BSP is also playing important role in safe operation of this gas supply network.
The disciplined squad of EMD maintains round-the-clock vigil. The squad has not only trained large number of BSP employees for gas safety, but also played a vital role in technical up-gradation of the gas network in the plant, they stated.
last year several drives and training programmes were undertaken included Samiksha (Review) drive, gas safety training, joint mock drill, haze-up study, joint workshop, portable CO monitor, fixed CO monitors, repair of lD gas holder, laying of mixed gas line, cent per cent isolation facility, safe operation of gas pipeline, regular visual inspection and GCP and NDT test of gas pipeline and as its outcome BSP could change 17,284-meter long gas pipeline since 2004.
As part of Gas Safety Training, as many as 600 personnel including those of CISF, HSCl Project Department and contract workers were also imparted training in the intensive training programmes.
Disaster Management was also improved considerably in the joint auspices of National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and EMD Squad of BSP and mock drill was also conducted to check minimum response time in case of gas leak.
Besides, workshop and training programme was conducted for spotting danger in production process and undertaken practical training and demonstration of various safety equipments.
Apart from these, the joint workshop for personnel from EMD, blast furnace and Water Management Department was also conducted.