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The Ministry of Labour and Employment today announced the Prime Minister’s Shram Awards for the year 2009 to be awarded to 61 workers employed in the Departmental Undertakings & Public Sector Undertakings of the Central and State Governments and Private Sector Units employing 500 or more workers 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 nomination was found suitable for the presitigious Shram Ratna Award. Ten nominations for the Shram Bhushan Award, sixteen nominations for Shram Vir/Shram Veerangana and thirty five nominations for Shram Shree/Shram Devi Awards have been selected. Even though, the total number of Shram Awards is 33, the number of workers receiving the Awards is 61 (Including 2 women), as some of the Awards have been shared by workers and/or teams of workers consisting of more than one worker. These include 45 workers from the public sector and 16 workers from the private sector.
SHRAM BHUSHAN
Total number of Shram Bhushan Award is four. It carries a cash award of Rs. 1,00,000/- and a ‘Sanad’. Eight nominations were found suitable for the Shram Bhushan Award. For the year 2009, the Shram Bhushan Awards in respect of Public Sector undertakings are given to S/Shri Kalu Charan Moharana, Herman Toppo, Purnananda Kumar Barik, Surendra Nath Ray, Dusmanta Kumar Mekap, Dinabandhu Das and Kali Charnan Sahu, all from Rourkela Steel Plant, Rourkela, (Jointly) Shri Rajender Kumar Gupta, Badarpur Thermal Power Station, Badarpur, New Delhi and in respect of Private Sector, to Bhura Lal and Jagdish Chandra Jat both from Hindustan Zinc Ltd., Debari, Udaipur.
SHRAM VIR/VEERANGANA
Total number of Shram Vir/Shram Veerangana Awards is twelve. It carries a cash award of Rs. 60,000/- and a ‘Sanad’. No female worker from Public Sector and Private Sector was found suitable for Shram Veerangana Award. The Shram Vir awardees in respect of Public Sector Undertakings are S/Shri C. Ramadoss, Chennai Petroleum Corporation Ltd, Panangudi, Chennai, S/Shri Rajinder Singh, Poshram Thakur, Manish Pandya, Ismail Masih, Jeevan Kumar Sahu, All from Bhilai Steel Plant, Bhilai ( Jointly), S/Shri Udayanath Samasi Rourkela Steel Plant, Rourkela, R. Thiyagarajan, Salem Steel Plant, Salem, Ramadhar Gautam, Bharat Heavy Electrical Ltd, Ranipur, Haridwar, Mohan Lal, Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd., Lucknow and in respect of private sector the awardees are S/Shri Dal Chand Lohar, Hindustan Zinc Ltd, Debari, Udaipur, Keshao Shaligram Ingle, Godrej & Boyce Mfg Co. Ltd, Mumbai, Girija Bhusan Pattanayak, Tata Steel Ltd, Keonzhar, Orrissa, Mahendra Kumar Soni, Hindustan Zinc Ltd, Debari, Udaipur, Shanta Ram Paraji Bhor, Thyssenkrupp Industries India Pvt. Ltd, Pune, Shri Narayan Krishnacharya Pimple, Kirloskar Pneumatic Co. Ltd, Pune.
SHRAM SHREE/DEVI
Total number of Shram Shree/Shram Devi Awards is sixteen. It carries a cash award of Rs. 40,000/- and a ‘Sanad’. Two female workers from Public sector have been selected for Shram Devi Awards for this year. The Shram Shree/Shram Devi awardees in respect of Public Sector Undertakings are S/Shri Birendra Kumar, P.K. Yadav, Gaind Lal Sahu, Rishi Kumar, Sudama, All from Bhilai Steel Plant, Bhilai, (Jointly), S/Shri Y. Venkateswara Roy, K. Gyaneshwar, A.B. Ganapathi, All from Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd., Hyderabad (Jointly), Ram Naresh Singh, Naval Dock Yard, Mumbai and Gummadi Srinivas, Naval Dock Yard, Visakhapatnam, Ravindra Kumar Dhaneshwar, Rajendra Kumar, N.Anil Menon, Hemant kumar Mishra, Kevendra Sunder, All from Bhilai Steel Plant, Bhilai (Jointly), Anil Kumar Jha, Indra Mallick, Pradeep Kumar Mishra, Manas Kumar Hota, K. Krushna Murthy Achary, All from Rourkela Steel Plant, Rourkela (Jointly), Subrata Bairagi, Sadananda Tewari, Subrata Gupta, Rajib Misra, Arindam Adhikary, All from Durgapur Steel Plant (Jointly), Smt. Kandukuri Sai Lakshmi, Bharat Electronics Ltd., Hyderabad and Smt. Suman Srivastava, ITI Limited, Mankapur, Gonda, (UP). (One nomination in lieu of Shram Ratna).In respect of private sector the awardees are s/Shri Dinesh Kumar Singh, Hindalco Industries Ltd, Debashis Chakraborty, Tata Steel Ltd, Jamshedpur, Peddinti Narayan Rao, Tata Steel Ltd., Jamshedpur, Shirish Babaji Sawant, Larsen & Toubro Ltd, Mumbai, Anil Kumar, Tata Steel Ltd., Jameshpur, Amar Prasad Ghosh, Tata Steel Ltd., Jamshedpur Ram Anuj Nishad, Tata Steel Ltd., Jamshedpur and Narayanan K, Apollo Tyres Ltd., Perambara, Kerala.
