Three units of BHEL, Tiruchi, have bagged National Safety Awards and 12 of its employees have won Vishwakarma Rashtriya Puraskars for 2014.
The awards were presented by Union Minister of State for Labour and Employment Bandaru Dattatreya at a function held in New Delhi recently. Atul Sobti, Chairman and Managing Director, BHEL, Subrata Biswas, Director, Engineering, Research and Development, BHEL, and R. Rajamanohar, General Manager (in charge), BHEL-Tiruchi complex, received the safety awards.
The Energy Systems Group (ESG) complex of Tiruchi BHEL has been adjudged winner for the longest accident-free period and lowest average frequency rate in the 0.1 to 0.25 million manhours category and the Welding Research Institute (WRI) has been adjudged runner-up for longest accident-free period in the same category. The Seamless Steel Tube Plant (SSTP) has won the award for the lowest average frequency rate in the over one million manhours category, according to a BHEL press release.
Besides, a team of employees comprising Magu Manchala Yaragorla, Artisan III; T. Vijayakumar, Artisan III; E.Vinoth Kumar, Artisan II; and T.Guna Sekaran, Artisan II of Unit II of High Pressure Boiler Plant, were jointly awarded Vishwakarma Rashtriya Puraskar Class-A Award.
M.Balamurugan, Artisan II; B. Akbar Ali, Artisan II; M. Eswaran, Artisan II; and A. Gangeswaran, Artisan II of Valves Production were jointly awarded Vishwakarma Rashtriya Puraskar Class B Award. V. Narayananasari, General Technician; L. Siva, Artisan II; S. Kannan, Artisan II; and E. Ramachandran, Artisan III of Welding Research Institute have jointly bagged Vishwakarma Rashtriya Puraskar Class-C Award.
The Vishwakarma Rashtriya Puraskars are given in recognition of suggestions leading to outstanding achievement or good performance on the part of workers towards increasing productivity, quality, safety, working conditions and import substitution, the release added.
