Two groups of employees of Bhilai Steel Plant have bagged the prestigious Vishwakarma Rashtriya Puraskar for assessment year 2013, a Press release of the plant informed on Saturday.
The first group comprising of Shankar lal Sirsam, Chargeman, Prahlad Singh Banchore, Sr Technician, Ramesh Chandra Gupta, Sr Technician — all in Central Heavy Maintenance 4, M.C.Chaodhury, H Draftsman in Design & Drawing Dept, and Vineet Kumar lohiya, Sr 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, Sr 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 to the Plant. The 11 employees in two groups who have been selected would be awarded and felicitated by the Union Minister for labour in New Delhi.
It is worth mentioning that Bhilai Steel Plant has the distinction of having won the maximum number of Vishwakarma Rashtriya Puraskar awards.
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 Ministry of labour.