Vishwakarma puja was celebrated with all traditional gaiety and religious fervour in all the industries, and other production units. Lord Vishwakarma is known as the founder of craft, art and construction and on the occasion, there was a festive mood in Banaras Locomotive Works (BLW). On this occasion, General Manager (GM) Basudev Panda reached the place of worship and extended hearty congratulations and best wishes to the BLW officers and employees on the occasion of Lord Vishwakarma Pujanotsav.
On this auspicious occasion, BLW employees cleaned their workshops and workplaces, decorated them with flowers, leaves, colourful flags and attractive electric lights and installed a very beautiful picture of their presiding deity Adishilpi Lord Vishwakarma and demonstrated devotion and loyalty apart from offering prayers. This year, Chandrayaan rocket, Vikram Lander and Pragyan Rover based on Mission Chandrayaan-3 were shown in the Loco Assembly Shop to express their pleasure over the safe and clean landing on the lunar surface by Vikram Lander and Pragyan Rover which is continuously sending new information from to the lunar surface to ISRO centre. The tableaux drew the attention of all. The main contribution in the thinking and construction of this tableaux was made by senior technicians Sandeep Kumar, Neeraj, Anuj Gupta, Amit, Manish, Monu and Suryanath.
Besides, the entire instrument room was decorated by the hardworking supervisors and employees of the instrument room on a theme based on art, beauty and patriotism. The main centre of attraction in this was the model of Aditya L1 which has recently been completed by ISRO in Mission Suryaan. Through this medium, the employees of BLW had made a small effort to thank all those scientists and express their feelings towards them.
For the last few years, in fulfillment of social responsibilities towards the environment, idols of Lord Vishwakarma were not installed in the entire BLW campus and pictures were worshiped in their place. In particular, apart from Loco Assembly Shop, Lord Vishwakarma Puja festival was celebrated with great pomp and show with attractive decorations at Traction Assembly Shop, Tool Room, Truck Machine Shop, Loco Test Shop, New Block Shop, Engine Division, Store Depot, Electrical and Civil Sections and Technical Training Centre (TTC),
On the occasion, Principal Chief Electrical Engineer SK Srivastava, Principal Chief Material Manager Rajneesh Gupta, Principal Chief Mechanical Engineer Prabir Kumar Saha, Principal Chief Personnel Officer Ranvijay, Principal Chief Engineer Vinod Bampal, Chief Design Engineer RR Prasad, Chief Mechanical Engineer (Production) Sunil Kumar, Senior Deputy General Manager Vijay, Chief Electrical Engineer (Loco) Arun Sharma, Chief Electrical Engineer (Inspection) MK Singh, Public Relations Officer Rajesh Kumar and many other including Staff Council’s members.