PM confers Shram Awards on 65 employees

New Delhi, Aug 14 (UNI) The Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today gave away the Shram Awards for the year 2005 for their outstanding contribution in the field of industrial productivity to 65 workers employed in the public and private sectors.

The awardees include 46 workers from the public sector and 19 from the private sector. Among them are six women workers.

This year, no nomination was found suitable for the prestigious Shram Ratna Award which carries a cash award of Rs two lakh and a memento.

Five nominations (one nomination in lieu of Shram Ratna Award) have been adjudged as suitable for the Shram Bhushan Award each carrying a cash award of Rs one lakh and a memento.

The Shram Bhushan Awards for 2005 have been given to a team comprising A D Maria Paul Bosco and K Indran (jointly) from Chennai Petroleum Corporation Ltd, Chennai, a team comprising Mirza Farid Baig, K Chandra Sekhar Rao, K V Subba Rao, P Gopal Reddy, P S Ramachander, P Darshan, R Surendran Nair, E Narasing Rao, K Chandra Shekhara Rao, (jointly) from Nuclear Fuel Complex, Hyderabad, C V Venkateswara Rao, Bharat Electronics Ltd, Krishna District and Nagaraja, Bharat Electronics Ltd, Bangalore (jointly) (all from public sector) Mihir Roy Chowdhury from TISCO, Jamshedpur and Ashok Devidas Bobade, Bajaj Auto Ltd, Aurangabad (both from private sector).

Twelve nominations have been selected for as many Shram Vir/Shram Veerangana Awards. Each award carries a cash award of Rs 60,000 and a memento.

One woman worker from public sector has been awarded Shram Veerangana Award.

This year, no female worker from private sector was found suitable for Shram Veerangana Award. The Shram Vir/Shram Veerangana Awardees were Satya Pal Singh, BHEL, Haridwar, a team comprising Shrivas Chandra Saha, Syed Mushir Ahmad, Dinesh Akotkar, R Prem Nath and Fanish Dhar Dwivedi from Bhilai Steel Plant and a team comprising T Rajendran and G Kamaraj both from BHEL, Tiruchirappalli (jointly).

Eighteen workers have shared sixteen Shram Shree/Shram Devi Awards.

They include five women who have been selected for Shram Devi Awards. Each award carries Rs 40,000 and a memento.

UNI