The 'Vigilance Awareness Week' was observed in NMDC ltd with the administration of the pledge by Dr Narendra K. Nanda, Director (Technical) to all the employees in Hyderabad on October 31.
The 'Vigilance Awareness Week' was held till November 5, a company press release informed.
During the week-long celebrations various Vigilance Awareness programmes and competitions were organized. Quiz and Elocution competitions were conducted for all the employees wherein large number of employees participated and a Vendor Meet was conducted wherein more than 40 vendors participated with whom all the Functional Directors of NMDC had interactions, it informed.
A talk on “Vigilance in Personal Finances” by P Sarath Kumar, Chartered Accountant, M/s. Sarath & Associates was organized wherein more than 100 employees participated and competitions viz., Essay writing, Elocution, Debates, Quiz and Panel discussions on moral values, ethics, good government practices etc., are conducted for inculcating greater awareness on corruption and anti-corruption measures at schools and colleges namely - Vani High School, Vijaynagar Colony and Govt. High School and colleges – New Government Degree College, Khairatabad, Sindhu Women’s Degree College, Mehdipatnam and Vijaynagar College of Commerce, Vijayanagar Colony.
On the concluding day, S Narsing Rao, IAS, Principal Secretary to Chief Minister, Government of Telangana was the Chief Guest.
In his address, he stressed the need of self vigilance among all the public servants to have a corruption-free India and advised all the students to nurture good habits of ethics and integrity in their day to day life.
Rao also said that public participation is having an important role to play in eradicating corruption and students being the future citizens of India have a major role to play towards that goal.
Prizes were distributed by the Chief Guest to the winners and Certificates were given to the winning students of various schools and colleges.
The valedictory function was attended by Dr Narendra K. Nanda, Director (Technical); Dr T.R.K. Rao, Director (Commercial); P.K. Satpathy, Director (Production); D.S.Ahluwalia, Director (Finance) and senior officials of NMDC.