Twelve employees of Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited, Tiruchi, have won three Vishwakarma Rashtriya Puraskar (VRP) awards for 2013.
The Vishwakarma Rashtriya Puraskar awards were instituted in 1965 by the Centre for rewarding and recognising the suggestions leading to outstanding achievement or good performance on the part of workers in increasing productivity, quality, safety, working condition, and import substitution at industrial undertakings. J.Veeramani, artisan, R.Shanmuga Velusamy, Deputy Engineer, S. Loganathan, artisan, N. Senthil Kumar, artisan, and R. Rathinam, artisan from Boiler Production of BHEL, Tiruchi, have jointly won a VRP Class B award for developing a fixture to counter balance multi axis jobs during auto welding. Class B awards consists of a cash award of Rs. 50,000 and a certificate. M. Padmanaban, artisan, M. Ganesan, artisan, and P. Tamilselvan, assistant engineer, from Boiler Production have jointly won a VRP Class C award for effecting cycle time reduction in elbow manufacturing process.
S. Arockiasamy, auxiliary worker; A. Senthilkumar, semi skilled worker; S. Sathish Kumar, artisan; and M. Vijayakumar, artisan from Boiler Production, have jointly won a VRP Class C award for developing hydraulic lifting machine for dish end cover joint fit-up in headers.
Class C awards consist of a cash award of Rs. 25,000 and a certificate. The employees received the awards from Bandaru Dattatreya, Minister of State for Labour and Employment (Independent Charge), at a function held in New Delhi recently. This is the fifth consecutive year that BHEL employees have won it.
BPP and VRP students jointly win the prize
The employees receive award from Bandaru Dattatreya
