It was an emotional day at Vichar Manch, CCl when all the Functional Directors including Chairman-cum-Managing Director(CMD) bid a fond farewell to Vismita Tej, Chief Vigilance Officer (CVO), who completed her tenure of five years on Saturday evening. The hall was packed with the employees including women and representatives of trade unions and Coal Mines Officer Association of India (CCl unit).
Tej joined Central Coalfields limited(CCl) as CVO on September 7th, 2007. She has credit to introduce many pioneering initiatives to leverage technologies related to the Information Technology like e-tendering, e-payment, wide area network, geographical position system to track the movement of loaded trucks etc., to bring more transparency and accountability. A compendium of circulars was compiled during her regime to educate each executives about the rules and regulations of the company and Vigilance Commission of India.
Addressing the audiences, Gopal Singh, CMD said that the company is not only focusing production and profitability but giving top priority to the transparency, ethics and philanthropic approach in the large interest of its stakeholders. “ The company is giving focus on integration of technologies to cover all its areas. CCl will become the first subsidiary in Coal India for leveraging technologies at the greatest level,” Singh said. The CMD also said that for 44,000 employees of CCl, it is historic day and each of them is deeply concerned about you( Vismita Tej) as you are leaving the company.
TK Nag, Director(Technical/Oprns.) in his speech highlighted that CVO frequently discussed various issues related to operation of the company that led to growth of the company. R R Mishra, Director(Personnel) said that CVO never behaved like she is outsider of the company but during her tenure she worked as a member of CCl, dedicating her time to bring more transparency for growth of the company. D K Ghosh, Director(Finance) said he worked for a brief period of one and half year with Tej and she was keen to introduce information technology initiative like e-procurement, e-tenders etc.
Tej was handed over memento, shawls etc., by CMD and other three Directors. Rajbhasha Officer. Dr. Nivedita Banerjee read a ‘Abhinandan Patra’ highlighting her achievements in the company, her leadership quality and dedication towards the company. CVO in her address acknowledged that her tenure of five years will remain memorial throughout her life. “ It was human to human relationship. I cherished with good memories.” Tej added. She also inaugurated online complain/grievance system at CCl Headquarters in presence of R R Mishra, Director(Personnel). The system is developed by system department of the company in consultation with Computer Ed. Ranchi for implementing full -fledged online complaints/grievance system. G C Agarwal, General Manager(Vigilance), Dr. BM K Sinha, Head of the Department(Samadhan), M P Kant(representative of union), B. B Singh and others talked about their personal experience with. Vismita Tej.