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Jamshedpur, November 10, 2003
Tata Steel's West Bokaro Collieries was adjudged the QIMPRO Benchmark
Award 2003 in the National Category. Mr. A M Mishra, General Manager, West Bokaro
Collieries received the award on behalf of the Company at a ceremony, held at Cricket Club
of India, Mumbai, on November 26, 2003.
The Qimpro Foundation has adjudged Tata Steel's West Bokaro Collieires as being the
Qimpro Benchmark 2003 in the National Category.
The Panel of Judges for this Award comprised several eminent personalities such as the
following:
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Kumar Mangalam Birla, Chairman, AVB Group. |
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Sarthak Behuria, Chairman and Managing Director, Bharat
Petroleum |
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Shailesh Haribhakti, Partner, Haribhakti and Company |
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S Gopalakrishnan, Deputy Managing Director, Infosys
Technologies |
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P Krishnamurthy, Vice Chairman, J M Morgan Stanley India |
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Roger C B Pereira, CEO, Burson-Marsteller Roger Pereira
Communications |
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Tarjani Vakil, Chairperson (Retd), Exim Bank |
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Shakuntala Lulla, Director (Healthcare), Qimpro Consultants,
and |
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Suresh Lulla, Chief Executive, Qimpro Consultants. |
Qimpro Consultants was established as India's first dedicated TQM consulting firm, in
1987. The year 1987 was also the year of globalization of TQM through initiatives such as
ISO 9000 series and Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. Qimpro played a pioneering
role in India's effort to join the global quality mainstream.
The West Bokaro Colliery is both ISO 9000 and ISO 14000 certified. It not only meets
the coal requirements of the steel plant but also supplies coal to power plants, brickilns
and other steel plants. In addition to producing coking coal, it also produces middlings
and tailings. The collieries produce about 4.4 million tonnes of coal. It is committed to
meeting the stringent requirements of its customers. It has been successful in lowering
the ash content thereby improving the quality of coal leading to greater customer
satisfaction, both within and outside the company. By improvement and productivity
initiatives the mine has enabled the direct injection of coal in the Blast Furnaces
thereby reducing the coke usage rate.
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