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34 SAIL employees win PM's Shram award

New Delhi, 24 February, 2011

Thirty-four employees of Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) have won the Prime Minister’s Shram Awards for the year 2009 announced this week.

The award winners from SAIL constitute three-fourth of the total 45 awardees from PSUs.

With this, SAIL employees have broken their own record of bagging 24 of the 35 Shram awards given to PSU employees for the year 2008 last year.

Of the 34 SAIL awardees, seven employees of Rourkela Steel Plant have won the Shram Bhushan, six from the same plant bagged Shram Virs along with one employee from Salem Steel Plant.

20 employees, including 10 from Bhilai Steel Plant and five each from Rourkela and Durgapur Steel Plants, won the Shram Shree/Devi awards.

Speaking on this occasion, SAIL Chairman C S Verma termed it as a victory for the innovative spirit, unflinching commitment and proven technical competence of SAIL employees.

Constituted by the Government, the Shram awards are given in recognition of distinguished performance, innovative abilities, outstanding contribution in the field of productivity and exhibition of exceptional courage and presence of mind.
 

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