Birla Cellulosic,
Bharuch bagged the Rajiv Gandhi National Quality Award, 2001 under
the "Best of All" category. The quality award for large scale
manufacturing industry was given jointly to J. K. Tyre, Kankroli
and Reliance Industries Limited (Hazira Manufacturing Division)
Surat. Indian Oil Corporation Ltd. ( Kandla-Bhatinda Pipeline)
won the Rajiv Gandhi National Quality Award under service sector
and Chola Pumps (Private) Limited, Coimbatore was the winner in
the category of Small Scale Manufacturing Industry. Those who
were awarded Commendation Certificates include Shree Cement Limited,
Beawar, Jindal Steel & Power Limited, Raigarh, Grasim Industries
Limited, Nagda, BSES Limited, Mumbai, Tata Consultancy Services,
Chennai and Coir-On Foam Products, Pollachi. The awards and commendation
certificates were distributed by Shri Sharad Yadav, Union Minister
of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution at a function
organised by the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) here today.
Speaking on the occasion,
Shri Sharad Yadav urged the Bureau of Indian Standards to promote
consumer interest by formulating quality standards for consumer
products. In this context the Minister recalled the efforts of
the Bureau in testing the purity of gold by introducing gold hall-marking
scheme and the issuance of 460 licenses covering more than 8.5
lakh of jewellary articles. He called upon the industry to produce
good quality items to successfully compete in global market and
maximise consumer satisfaction.
Shri V. Sreenivasa
Prasad, Minister of State for Consumer Affairs, Food and Public
Distribution, who is also the Vice President of BIS emphasised
the need for producing quality goods as sub-standard products
besides resulting in loss of national image in the international
market acted as a serious impediment in the way of efforts for
increasing exports.
Shri S. Bandopadhayay,
Secretary, Department of Consumer Affairs pointed out the need
for safeguarding quality of products for competing in international
markets in the wake of WTO agreement. The status of information
technology and biotechnology has shown that quality is the basis
of sustenance in the world market, he observed.
Earlier, in his welcome
address, Shri Nirmal Singh, Director General, BIS expressed the
hope that more and more industries would be participating for
selection for awards under various categories in coming years.
The Rajiv Gandhi
National Quality Awards have been designed by BIS to be in line
with similar awards of advanced countries, like the Malcolm Baldrige
National Quality Awards, USA; Deming Prize in Japan and the European
Quality Award. It is based on the Total Quality Management model.
The winners are selected by the National Awards Committee chaired
by the Secreatry, Department of Consumer Affairs.
