October 16, 2008

SAIL RSP employees honored with Viswakarma Rashtriya Puraskar

SNS reported that the ministry of labor and employment, government of India has awarded the coveted Viswakarma Rashtriya Puraskar 2006 to 11 employees of Steel Authority of India Limited’s Rourkela Steel Plant. For the first time for RSP this year, 2 awards have come in category B which carries a cash award of INR 25,000. Mr Oscar Fernandes presented the prestigious award to the winners.

This is for the first time in the history of RSP that so many employees have been selected to get this prestigious award in a single year. Since the inception of the award in 1965 so far only 8 employees have bagged the honor that is presented every year to workmen employed in factories throughout India in recognition of their innovative suggestions resulting in higher efficiency, productivity, quality, safety and working conditions, housekeeping and import substitution at the enterprise level.

Mr BN Singh MD of Rourkela Steel Plant, while addressing award winners, said that “Every employee has to think up new ideas daily which will help him to do different things or do things differently. This would enable the organization scale new peaks of excellence on a continuous basis. You must emulate the divine architect Viswakarma who was always exploring new vistas of creativity.” He added that happiness leads to complacency thereby reducing efficiency.