The closing ceremony of National Road Safety Week by West Bokaro Division of Tata Steel was organized today at Chowk number 12, West Bokaro. Dr Virendra Kumar Chaudhary, Deputy Superintendent of Police, Ramgarh district attended the ceremony as Chief Guest.

With an aim to create awareness on safe driving, importance of traffic rules and use of helmet and seat belt while driving, an awareness rally was organised by students of Sishu Niketan and Dr B R Ambedkar High School across West Bokaro.  Pamphlets on road safety were also distributed by the students during the rally. The rally was conducted under the supervision of the security department of Tata Steel.

Dr Virendra Kumar Chaudhary talked about the importance of road safety and what the central government along with the state governments are doing to prevent road accidents. While briefing the gathering, he also urged all to follow the traffic rules.

Present on the occasion were Mr Anand Kumar, Chief, Capacity Enhancement Project (West Bokaro), Tata Steel, Mr Mohan Mahto, President, Rastriya Colliery Mazdoor Sangh, Mr Radheshyam Ram, Officer in-charge, West Bokaro Police Station (O.P.), Mr Manoj Singh, Head, Security (West Bokaro),Tata Steel, Mr Manoj Singh, Head, Security (West Bokaro), Tata Steel and Mr Vijay Soni, Senior Manager, Safety & ISO (West Bokaro), Tata Steel, Mr Rajiv Ranjan, Senior Manager, Improvement Group (West Bokaro), Tata Steel, Mr Keshav Ranjan, Unit Head, Tata Steel Rural Development Society, Tata Steel officials, union office bearers, school students and general public of West Bokaro.

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Tata Steel Group is among the top global steel companies with an annual crude steel capacity of 27 million tonnes per annum (MTPA) as on March 31, 2017. It is the world's second-most geographically-diversified steel producer, with operations in 26 countries and a commercial presence in over 50 countries. The Group recorded a consolidated turnover of US $18.12 billion (INR 117,420 crore) in FY17. Tata Steel Group is spread across five continents with an employee base of nearly 74,000. Having bagged the Deming Application Prize and Deming Grand Prize for continuous improvement in 2008 and 2012 respectively, Tata Steel has now been recognised as the global ‘Industry Leader’ in ‘Steel category’ by Dow Jones Sustainability Index (2015). Besides being a member of the World Steel Climate Action Programme, Tata Steel has also been felicitated with several awards including the Prime Minister’s Trophy for the best performing integrated steel plant for 2013-14 (received in 2017), Best Risk Management by CNBC TV18 (2016), ‘Best-in-class Manufacturing’ award from TIME India (2016) and the ‘Most Ethical Company’ award from the Ethisphere Institute (2016), IIM Sustainability Award (2015), among several others.