The Bharat Aluminium Company limited (BAlCO) has observed ‘December-2016’ as a month for Energy Conservation.
Many awareness programmes were organised in schools of Balconagar, in the Township as well as in the Plant, a company Press release informed here on Tuesday.
The winners of the painting, slogan writing, poetry writing, quiz and other competitions were awarded with prizes. The closing ceremony of the Energy Conservation Month was held in the Alumina Canteen.
Deepak Prasad, Head-Aluminium Business and Chief Guest at the function said that conserving energy was everybody’s responsibility.
He appealed to officers, employees and contract workers that they should make optimum use of resources in the workplace. The wasteful flow and spillage of oils should be curtailed.
He added that global warming was on the increase and it was absolutely necessary to have control over the ever increasing temperature for the benefit of future generations.
D.K.Patel, AVP-Power, P.S.Toor, Head-Engineering Services and Ashok Yadav, Head-Operations, 1200 MW Power Plant said in their speeches that we should encourage non- conventional sources for energy generation.
The officers added that a lot of projects have been implemented for energy conservation.
The winners of the drawing and painting competition amongst Balco employees were Pradeep Nayak, Vinod Rathore and Naveen Nirmalkar who got the first, second and third prize respectively.
Sanjiv Verma and Deepak Kumar Singh received the Special Jury awards.
The winners in the Contract Workers group were Santosh Kaivartya for the first prize, Ravi Sharma for the second prize and Praveen Sahu for the third prize.
The Special Jury awards were won by Dhaniram Bareth and Ajay Baral. In the employee category, the prizes for Slogan writing went to Rohan Bhuwal, Rupesh Kumar Tiwari, R.S. Sriwas and Umendra Kumar Namdev.
In the Contract Workers category, the winners who were awarded were Shailendra Patel, Arun Kumar Baghel, Dorilal Sahu and Har Narayan Chandra.
The winners for Poetry Writing in the employee category were Rupesh Kumar Sonkar, Vinod Rathore, Shruti Singh and Priyaranjan Trivedi.
In the Contract Workers category, the prizes went to Amiya Ranjan Dass, Haseeb Ansari, Ajay Boral and Kulvant Singh.
The first prize for Quiz Competition went to 540 MW Team. Two teams of 1200 MW came second and third respectively. In the Contract Workers Category the first prize went to E & I Team of 1200 MW Power Plant, G.I.S. Team won the second and the third prize went to Rectifier Pot Room line-1. Along with these, awards were also given for project presentations based on energy conservation. Pot line Utilities got the first prize, Team 1200 MW Operations won the second prize and the Rodding Team won the third prize. The Team of S.R.S. stayed at the 4th position. In the Energy Saving Cardinal Rules Competition, Cast House -3 Team came first. Pot line – 2 came second and the third position was jointly bagged by S.R.S. Team as well as 1200 MW Teams.
The guests at the function released a booklet on energy conservation.
Roshan Soni, Associate Manager, Rectifier, informed the gathering about the contents of the booklet. An exhibition was organised at the place of the function. On display in the exhibition were pictures, poems and slogans.
The programme received outstanding participation under the leadership of Avinash Pandit Chavan, A.G.M.- M.R.S.D.S from Ankur Gupta, Manger-Pot Room, Manish lakhera -Associate Manager-1200 MW, Anish Rao, Associate Manager-Rectifier, Binay Acharya- Asst. Manager, Soham Chattopadhya- Asst. Manager- M.R.S.D.S and Sabina Yasmeen from M.R.S.D.S.