SAIL bags BML Munjal award

New Delhi, Jan 12 (UNI) Public sector company, Steel Authority of India Ltd (SAIL) has bagged the prestigious Brij Mohan Lal (BML) Munjal Award for excellence in learning and development for the year 2006, in the public sector category.

The award was received by SAIL's Chairman S K Roongta from Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel at a simple function held here last evening. The award was instituted last year by the elite Hero Mindmine Institute, a part of the Hero group of industries.

The award recognises the significant turnaround brought about in the working of SAIL in its productivity and profitability over the last few years in general and the significant efforts made in the year 2006 in adding value to its business processes through developing human resource competency.

The success registered by SAIL in achieving its mission, to a large extent, is based on a scientific encouragement for and support to technical training and managerial training.

The citation accompanying the award described as "significant" SAIL's effort to put in place "a useful learning and development practice called 'learning from each other'.

The jury also acknowledged the success of SAIL's use of investment in HRD for better results as a corporate entity, and investing in employees and their learning.

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