PRIME MINISTER’S SHRAM AWARDS FOR
2003 ANNOUNCED
The Government of
India announced the Prime Minister’s Shram Awards for the year
2003 to be awarded to 38 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, a
team of five workmen has been selected for the Shram Ratna Award.
Two entries have been selected for the Shram Bhushan Award. 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 38 (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’. The Shram Ratna Awardees
are a team comprising of S/Shri Mahender Kumar Gulati, Ramji Rangari,
Sunil Kumar Singh, Sandeep Kumar Borkar and Mubarak Ali (Jointly)
of Bhilai Steel Plant, Bhilai.
SHRAM BHUSHAN
Total number
of Shram Bhushan Awards is two. 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 C. Hanumanthaiah, S. Titesh and N.
Rajashekar (Jointly) of BHEL, Bangalore and Shri B.U. Jayachandran
Unnithan of Southern Railway, Coonoor.
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 a team comprising
of S/Shri Giramoni Anjaiah, Pothuganti Narayana Reddy, Vakkalagadda
Manohar, Surapaneni Satyanarayana, Neelam Ramachander, Mandhula
Lingaiah and Putti Veera Venkateswarlu (Jointly) of Nuclear Fuel
Complex Hyderabad; a team comprising of S/Shri C.L. Verma, P.K.
Tembhurkar, E. Minj, D.I. Rao and Venkateshwarlu (Jointly) of
Bhilai Steel Plant, Bhilai; Shri Govinda Swamy Ramadass of Bhabha
Atomic Research Centre, Trombay, Mumbai; Shri T.B. Sheik Bagavadeen
of Integral Coach Factory, Chennai; Shri Madhurendra Kishore of
Bokaro Steel Plant, Bokaro and Jointly to Shri Bhimappa
P. Dashyal of BHEL, Bangalore and a team comprising of S/Shri
Munisamy Rajamanickam, C. Lakshmanan, D. Raja, Samaraj Nagarajan
and S.K. Venkatachalam (Jointly) of Neyveli, Trichy, Salem, Neyveli
and Pondicherry units of Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd,
respectively.
SHRAM SHRI
/ SHRAM DEVI
Shram Shri / Shram
Devi Award (eight in number) carries a cash award of Rs.40,000/-
and a ‘Sanad’ each. Two women workers namely Smt. D. Girijamma
of HMT, Bangalore and Smt. Harjeet Kaur of Diesel Component Works,
Patiala (Railways) have been selected for Shram Devi Award. In
addition, six entries have been selected for Shram Shri Awards.
These are Shri Sait Panneer Selvam of Bharat Electronics Ltd.,
Bangalore; Shri C.P. Dwivedi of ITI, Mankapur; Shri Mangi Lal
of BHEL, Haridwar; Shri Ratish Chandra Mishra of Hindustan Paper
Corporation Ltd., Kagajnagar, Assam; Shri A. Govindarajan of Track
Machines Unit, Arakkonam, Southern Railway and Shri Shane Mehdi
of Panipat Refinery, IOC, Panipat.
