SAIL employees won more than 30% Vishwakarma Rashtriya Puraskar
New Delhi, 18th September 2018: Steel Authority of India Ltd. (SAIL) has won more than 30% prestigious Vishwakarma Rashtriya Puraskar (VRP) for the performance year 2016. Today in a function held at SCOPE Complex, Delhi, Chairman & Managing Director (CMD) SAIL Shri Saraswati Prasad felicitated SAIL employees who have won 9 out of the total 28 VRP awards. Out of the total 139 awardees, 48 awardees are from SAIL. On this occasion Director (Finance) Shri Anil Chaudhary, Director (Projects & Business Planning) Dr. G. Vishawakarma, Director Commercial Ms. Soma Mondal, Director (Personnel) Shri Atul Srivastava, Director (Technical) Shri H N Rai were also present.
Before this, yesterday Hon’ble Minister of State, Labour & Employment (Independent Charge), Govt. of India Shri Santosh Kumar Gangwar felicitated the awardees in a function organized at Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar International Centre, New Delhi. These awards were announced on13th August, 2018.
Out of total 48 awardees of SAIL, 42 belong to SAIL’s Bhilai Steel Plant and the rest 6 are from SAIL’s Salem Steel Plant. Estimated savings from these award winning projects/suggestions is approx Rs. 14.6 Cr. per annum as recurring and around Rs. 10.8 Crs. as one time.
