The Government
today 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.
