Shri Mallikarjun Kharge Minister for Labour & Employment today presented the Vishwakarma Rashtriya Puraskar and National Safety Awards for the Performance Year 2009 here today.
Vishwakarma Rashtriya Puraskar is awarded in recognition of outstanding suggestions given by a worker or group of workers and implemented by the management during the previous calendar year (Performance year) resulting in improvement in quality, productivity and working conditions such as safety, health and environmental conservations in the industrial undertakings where “Suggestion Schemes” are in operations. This year there are 28 puraskars being shared by 117 winners.
The financial savings, due to adopted and implemented suggestions of the winning applications of the VRP have been 1082.85 crores recurring and 94.83 crores non-recurring in Indian currency and 21.73 crores recurring & 29.59 crores nonrecurring in Foreign Exchange.
