The 33rd session of “Apeksha’’ - a departmental level communication and involvement initiative started at Bhilai Steel Plant’s ‘Rail and Structural Mill’ was held here on December 25.
As many as 758 employees, (more than 75 per cent of the total strength of the Mill’s workforce) have been covered so far in the exercise aimed at energising the Mill Collective to meet challenges and expectations of SAIl-BSP from the Mill, according to a BSP press release.
The sessions of Apeksha are held in the Mill daily for one hour duration.
A presentation is followed by a discussion session during which suggestions are invited from participants.
The objective of the programme is to create awareness about targets and current levels of performance and sensitizing the Collective towards the changing environment and challenges before RSM Collective.
The programme module constitutes of topics including current business scenario, safety aspects, 5S and housekeeping, Annual Business Plan targets, techno economic parameters, quality issues, challenges before RSM, future plans and brigade-wise comparison of performance.
The programme also focusses on involvement of employees and their role in meeting the challenges.
To involve a larger chunk of executives, the presenters are different every day.
Employees are encouraged to come up with suggestions and the feasibility of implementing suggestions is discussed with senior officers present during the sessions. Interestingly, more than a hundred suggestions have been received so far.
Addressing one of the sessions of Apeksha, AV Kamlakar, GM (RSM) called for full participation of the RSM Collective to fulfill commitments made to Indian Railways as regards volume of production and other aspects of performance.
SAIl is looking up to us to fulfill these commitments.
Each one of us must therefore contribute positively in our individual capacity as well as that of our respective brigades and teams, he said.