BHEL employees win maximum number of PM's Shram awards

New Delhi, Apr 27 (UNI) BHEL employees today won the maximum number of Prime Minister's Shram Awards-2004.

The awards are presented to private and public sector employees for their contribution to productivity and technological innovations.

The only 'Shram Bhushan' award for the year was won by a BHEL employee.

In addition, seven Shram awards were bagged by 13 employees of BHEL from its units located at Trichy, Hyderabad, Haridwar and Bhopal.

The awards were presented by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at a function here.

While Mr S P Gupta, Chargeman at the company's Haridwar plant, was awarded the Shram Bhushan, Mr M Subramanian (BHEL Trichy), Mr M Sudhakar Reddy (BHEL Hyderabad) and Mr Mahipal Singh (BHEL Haridwar) were honoured with 'Shram Vir' awards.

Besides, Mr Bihari Lal Dhruv and Mr Sunil Kumar Soni, both from BHEL, Bhopal, jointly won the Shram Vir award.

In addition, three 'Shram Shree' Awards were shared by eight BHEL employees from the company's plants at Bangalore and Trichy.

Mr Gupta, the Shram Bhushan awardee, has contributed towards enhancing productivity by developing several fixtures for machining operations in the manufacture of rotors and stators.

His innovations have resulted in savings of Rs 5.5 Crore for the company, including precious foreign exchange saving of Rs 2.1 Crore for the country.

Mr Gupta is a pioneer of the productivity movement and launched the Quality Circle movement at BHEL's Haridwar plant.

So far, 52 BHEL employees have won 40 of these coveted national Awards.

UNI