The 28th BHEl Annual Quality Circle Summit (BAQCS) Programme started with the inaugural address of Chairman and Managing Director Atul Sobti and Director (E, R&D) S Biswas.
Around 43 Quality Circles from different units of BHEl are particpating in the event. BHEl ex-executives, quality experts and other experts from QCFI are present in the programme as ‘judges’. During the programme dignitaries from various BHEl units including ED (PS & CQ) K Purswani, ED (HEP-Bhopal) DK Thakur, GM (CQ & BE) AK Sarkar, GM (Quality & HR) MS Kinra and other officers were present.
Atul Sobti in his inaugural speech encouraged all the participants and emphasised that relevance of Quality Circles with respect to present scenario should be revisited so that the Concept of Quality circles can be rejuvenated. He stressed upon the need of taking improvement projects in areas such as Health Safety and Environment, services and quality of response. He further stressed on optimisation of product design and product reliability.
He said Quality is not a bookish term but Quality is Way of life. He further said that for Creating BHEl of Tomorrow, Globalisation, diversification, innovation and digitalisation are very important factors. Further every BHEl employee shall be full of energy and we all will progress if we work with this synergy.
Biswas in his address threw insight on history of Quality circles in BHEl from way back 1981 when the concept was started in BHEl Hyderabad. The movement started with only 5 quality circles which are now grown to approx. 1939 today. He said that in today’s competitive market reliability and performance of the product has utmost importance.
Purswani in his address said we shall not make Quality Circles Summit only an annual ritual however we shall use this opportunity to take all the work force together so that we can take BHEl to new Heights.
Thakur in his address expressed his view about the importance of quality circles. He said that we shall work for reliability of product as a next step in Quality moment from today, it is very important for concept of Globalisation of products. In his concise and thoughtful speech, he expressed his faith in talent and commitment of BHEl’s work force and communicated that we are the people who will make BHEl of Tomorrow.
Earlier, Kinra greeted all the contestants and dignitaries. He said that if we perform any job thinking that it is our own work then we don’t feel burden of it and we perform very well. He cited very beautiful story for this point. Sarkar proposed the vote of thanks. He further thanked BHEl Bhopal for all the efforts made for making this program successful.