Four employees of Tata Steel have been announced to receive The Prime Minister’s “Shram Award-2004”. This year, for the first time, the private sector companies were brought within the ambit of Prime Minister’s Shram Awards Scheme and Tata Steel made a noteworthy beginning.

While no nomination was found suitable for the “Shram Ratna” category, the highest Shram award, two employees of Tata Steel were conferred the “Shram Vir/ Virangana Award”, the second highest category. They were nominated for this award for their continuous record of dedicated service and high order of productivity.

Mr Kartik Kumar Mandal and Mrs. Jaswant Kaur working in the Tata Steel works at Jamshedpur were given cash award and a “Sanad” respectively for “Shram Vir/Virangana Award”. In addition, Mrs. Domini Murmu and Mrs. Asha Hansda of Tata Steel won the “Shram Devi” Awards for showing extra ordinary zeal and enthusiasm for work and remarkable contribution towards productivity. This award carries a cash award and a ‘Sanad’

Out of the six women workers who won the awards, three are from Tata Steel. All the three women employees from Tata Steel are “Tejaswinis” in the Company. Under Tajaswini programme women employees of the company are encouraged and trained to undertake jobs, which are conventionally carried by men. They were also given training to handle heavy machineries, drive vehicles and locomotives etc.

The award had different categories, such as, Shram Ratna, Shram Bhusan, Shram Vir/ Virangana and Sharm Shree/Shram Devi.