Winners of Vishwakarma Rashtriya Puraskar announced for the year 2013 from Bhilai Steel Plant (BSP) were felicitated in a ceremony at Ispat Bhavan, here on Friday by S Chandrasekaran, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Bhilai Steel Plant.
Present on the occasion were --- l T Sherpa ED (P&A), P K Sinha, ED (Mines-Rowghat), S K Saha ED (Mines), S K Jain Acting ED (Works) and senior officers of the plant, a BSP press released issued here on Friday stated.
It is worth mentioning that two groups from Bhilai Steel Plant comprising of a total of eleven employees will receive the Vishwakarma Rashtriya Puraskar for the year 2013.
They include one group each from Blast Furnace and CHM-IV. The awards will be given away on the occasion of Vishwakarma Jayanti on September 17, 2015 in New Delhi by Union labour Minister.
The first group comprising of Shankar lal Sirsam, Chargeman, Prahlad Singh Banchore, Senior Technician, Ramesh Chandra Gupta, Senior Technician – all in Central Heavy Maintenance 4, M.C.Chaudhury, Draftsman in Design & Drawing Dept, and Vineet Kumar lohiya, Senior Operator in Continuous Casting Shop of SMS 2 bagged the award for their project titled - ‘Evolving innovative and indigenous maintenance process for replacing Mould Oscillating Mechanism Hydraulic Cylinder of Slab Caster No. 6.’
The second group comprising of Vijay Kumar Meshram, Senior Technician, Dilip Kumar Das, Master Technician, Uma Shankar Paikra, Technician, Rajesh Marathe, Master Operative, Shrinivas Ojha, Technician and V. Dasaraju, Technician – all in Blast Furnaces bagged the award for their project titled –‘Innovative modification in coke fines disposal system and increase availability of coke screening system.’
Both the projects for which the two groups were selected for Vishwakarma Rashtriya Puraskar are yielding substantial recurring savings for the Plant.
Bhilai Steel Plant has the distinction of having the maximum number of Vishwakarma Rashtriya Puraskar awardees.
As many as 538 employees of Bhilai Steel Plant, including the 11 employees now selected for the Vishwakarma Rashtriya Puraskar 2013, have won the prestigious award since the awards were instituted in the year 1965.
The winners of the awards are selected, screened and evaluated from among nominations of implemented modifications based on suggestions from workers as received by a committee constituted the Union Ministry of labour.