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The Government today
(i.e. 25/01/2003 announced the Prime Minister’s Shram Awards for the year
2002 to be awarded to 35 workmen employed in the Departmental Undertakings
and Public Sector Undertakings of the Central and State Governments in
recognition of their distinguished performances, innovative abilities,
outstanding contribution in the field of productivity and exhibition of
exceptional courage and presence of mind.
This year, no workman has been
found suitable for Shram Ratna Award. As such, three Shram Bhushan Awards
including one in lieu of Shram Ratna Award have been selected this year.
In addition, six entries have been selected for Shram Vir and eight for
Shram Shri/Shram Devi Awards. Even though the total number of Shram Awards
is only 17, the number of workmen receiving the Awards is 35 (including 2
women), as some of the Awards have been given to team of workmen consisting
of more than one person.
SHRAM RATNA
This is the highest Award (one
in number) among the Shram Awards and carries a cash award of Rs.2,00,000/-
along with a `Sanad’. No nomination was found suitable for the Shram Ratna
Award. The Committee decided to distribute this award in the category of
Shram Bhushan.
SHRAM BHUSHAN
Total number of Shram Bhushan
Awards is three ( two as per the scheme and third in lieu of Shram Ratna ).
It carries a cash award of Rs. 1,00,000/- and a ‘ Sanad’ each. The Shram
Bhushan Awardees are, a team comprising of S/Shri
Arvind Kumar Saha, Alok Kumar Shrivastav, Avneesh Mishra, Sanjay Kumar
Singh and Ghanshyam Sharma
(Jointly) of Bhilai Steel Plant, Bhilai ;Shri
Ram Chandra Malhotra of BHEL, Hardwar
and a team comprising of S/Shri Vishnu
Kant Singh Kushwah and Manjeet Singh (
Jointly ) of National Capital Power Station , Dadri (NTPC ).
SHRAM VIR
Six Shram Vir Awards carrying a cash award
of Rs.60,000/- and a `Sanad’ each are being given. The Shram Vir Awardees
are,Shri Basudeo Choudhary
of Bokaro Steel Plant (SAIL ) ;
Shri S. Rajendran
of BHEL, Bangalore; Shri Sunil Kumar
Panigrahi of Rourkela Steel Plant;
Shri Junneti Satyanarayana
of Research Centre Imarat, Hyderabad ( DRDL); a team comprising of S/Shri
Sarbada Mishra , and
Pancham Prasad
(Jointly ) of Singrauli Super Thermal Power Station (NTPC ) and Jointly to
Shri A. Appalakonda
of Naval Dockyard, Vishakhapatnam & a team comprising of
S/Shri Indukuri Venkata Ramaraju, Naine Shyamraj,
Mohd. Abdul Salim Durrani and
Danda Chandra Mohan Reddy
(Jointly ) of Nuclear Fuel Complex, Hyderabad.
SHRAM SHRI / SHRAM DEVI
Shram Shri / Shram Devi Award (eight in
number) carries a cash award of Rs.40,000/- and a ‘Sanad’ each. A team
comprising of two women workers namely
Smt. Thanappa Lakshmamma and
Ms. Kamalamma
( Jointly ) of HMT Watch Factory, Bangalore has been selected for Shram
Devi Award. In addition, seven entries have also been selected for Shram
Shri Awards. These are, Shri T. Rajendran
of BHEL Trichy ; Shri S. Sandhanam
of BHEL, Trichy ; Shri Chandra Moger
of BEL, Bangalore ; Shri Ram Kumar Thakur
of Bhilai Steel Plant ; Sh. G.S.
Gopalakrishnan of Southern Railway,
Trichy ; Jointly to Shri Prabhat Kumar
of HAL, Nasik, Shri Durairajan Ganesan
of Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, Kalpakkam and a team comprising
of S/Shri Sumarat Lal Uike, Babu Lal,
Shankar Lal Kurrey, Dhan Singh Chandrakar, Krishna,
of Bhilai Steel Plant. ; and Jointly to
Sh. Girish K. Uruval of HMT Watch
Factory, Bangalore and Shri Abdul Rashid
Khan of HMT Watch Factory, Srinagar.
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