Three teams comprising of 17 employees hailing from Bhilai Steel Plant’s SMS-II, Blast Furnaces, Coke Ovens and Coal Chemical Department, EDD and PSD selected for three awards under the Vishwakarma Rashtriya Puraskar (VRP) for 2014 were congratulated and felicitated by BSP CEO M Ravi on Friday at a simple ceremony held in Ispat Bhavan here.
All three teams have been selected for the 'Category-C' award that carries a cash prize of ` 25,000 for each team, a BSP press release issued here informed.
Present on the occasion were Executive Directors, General Managers and senior officers of the Plant and PP&E Department.
Vishwakarma Rashtriya Puraskar will be given away in New Delhi on September 17, 2016 by the Union labour Minister.
Congratulating the members of the three teams, Ravi lauded them for their ingenuity and hard work that has resulted in laurels for Bhilai Steel Plant at the national stage.
He expressed his desire that such cases of ingenuity permeate to different shop floors and the plant gets benefitted from savings that incur from such initiatives.
Senior Plant officers present on the occasion also congratulated the team members,
Meanwhile, the Merchant Mill and Plate Mill of Bhilai Steel Plant (BSP) have been recertified for ‘5-S’.
Congratulating the recipient departments at the Recertification function for '5-S', P R Deshmukh, GM I/c (Works) stated that while getting certified is a long and tough journey but the real challenge remains in the sustenance part.
“5-S is not housekeeping only. It is about creating systems and mechanisms which results in lesser generation and accumulation of waste,” he said.
Each and every member has to contribute his or her part to sustain and upgrade the current level of workplace management, he said. Emphasising on the importance of 5-S, he said that this workplace management system helps in enhancing employee involvement and create a workplace which is clean, lean and safe.
Certified initially during 2013, this year three main shops of Bhilai Steel Plant – viz., Merchant Mill, Wire Rod Mill and Plate Mill were due for recertification.