RINL News

RINL-Visakhapatnam Steel Plant has bagged the coveted Rajbhasha Prize of Ministry of Steel, Govt. of India for the year 2017-18.

Sri P Madhusudan, CMD, RINL  said that RINL employees have immense potential, competitiveness and are always demonstrating their skill sense in improving the productivity and thus bringing name and fame to the organization.  He exhorted the employees to adapt to changes in this competitive business environment for survival and success.

The Panel of Judges (POJ) for the “Prime Minister’s Trophy 2016-17” is  on a 3 day visit to RINL to evaluate the  performance of RINL for the year 2016-17  for the award PM’s Trophy for the best Integrated Steel Plant in the country.

RINL was conferred the Best Enterprise Award-First prize in the “Navratna” category for 2017 in recognition of the commendable support extended by the management; and participation, involvement and achievements of its women employees in professional front.

Sri P Madhusudan, CMD, RINL underscored the need to leverage several new technologies introduced in the VSP and also asked to make more and more use of secondary metallurgical facilities like RH degasser and also maximise the use of Pulverised Coal Injection (PCI), etc. This requires greater employment involvement in every aspect of the production and transformation of work culture, he added.

RINL, the corporate entity of Visakhapatnam has been presented the “Certification of Appreciation”  in recognition of its significant performance in the year 2015-16. The award was presented to RINL during the Prime Minister’s Award function for the best Integrated Steel Plant for the performance year of 2015-16 held at Hyderabad today.

Sri Chaudhury Birender Singh, Hon’ble Union Minister of Steel presented “National Sustainability Award – 2nd prize” for the year 2017 to RINL amongst the integrated steel plants category in recognition of Quality Control aspects in the Steel Sector.

RINL, the corporate entity of Visakhapatnam  has been bestowed with “India Seatrade Award-2017”  for foraying into Coastal shipping in the country.

Sri Ramnath Kovind, Hon’ble President of India presented “Rajbhasha Keerti Puraskar-- 1st Prize” for the year 2016-17 to Sri P Madhusudan, CMD, RINL at a glittering function held in Delhi today on the Occasion of ‘Hindi Divas’.  

Sri Chaudhary Birender Singh, Hon’ble Union Minister of Steel presented the “Ispat Rajbhasha Samman Award (First prize)” to  Sri P Madhusudan, CMD, RINL during the Hindi Advisory Committee Meeting held today in New Delhi in the presence of Sri Vishnu Deo Sai, Hon’ble Minister of State for Steel, Smt Aruna Sharma, Secretary of MOS.

RINL-Visakhapatnam Steel Plant was conferred with the prestigious “Intelligent Enterprise Award” for demonstrating innovative use of Enterprise Mobility technology to gain competitive edge and improve operations in the plant.

Sri P Madhusudan, CMD,RINL underscored  the urgent need to reduce cost of production to compete with the integrated steel makers during 2017-18. This requires demonstration of team work and transformation of work culture and  any management process has to be linked with cost effectiveness, he added.

RINL the corporate entity of VSP has been bestowed with “Star Performer Award” for the year 2015-16 under Basic Iron & Steel category – Large Enterprises by Engineering Exports Promotion Council (EEPC), Ministry of Commerce, GoI during the International Engineering Sourcing Show (IESS 2017) at Chennai on 17th March evening. Sri P Madhusudan, CMD, RINL received the prestigious and coveted export excellence award from Sri P Benjamin, Hon’ble Minister of Rural Industries and MSME, Govt. of Tamilnadu at “48th EEPC India National Awards for Export Excellence” in the august presence of National and International dignitaries including Consuls General of European Countries, Russia etc.

The Corporate Vigilance Excellence Award for the year 2016-17 under “Steel Sector” was bestowed on RINL-VSP for the 4th time in a row in recognition of commendable work done in preventive vigilance. The award was presented to RINL at the Conclave of Vigilance Officers organised by the Institute of Public Enterprise (IPE), Hyderabad  today  (3rd March 2017).  The coveted Award was presented  to Sri B Siddhartha Kumar, IFS, CVO, RINL/ VSP  by Sri K V Chowdary, Central Vigilance Commissioner, CVC, GoI at a glittering function attended by CVOs, Vigilance officials from Steel, Manufacturing, Banking and other sectors. Four vigilance officers of RINL/VSP  were also recognized in the Individual Vigilance Excellence Award and Certificate of Appreciation.  

RINL-VSP has been awarded the “Star Performer” for the year 2014-15 for exports excellence in large Enterprise (Iron & Steel) category. The award was instituted by the Engineering Exports Promotion Council, Ministry of Commerce, GoI. The award was presented to RINL by Dr Kiran Bedi, Lt. Governor of Pudhicherry at a function held on Friday (3rd march,2017). Sri SK Chakraborti, General Manager (Marketing) &HOD received the prestigious award  and a Certification of recognition on behalf of RINL.  

Women In Public Sector (WIPS) wing of RINL-VSP has been  conferred with the “Best Enterprise Award- first prize”  in the “Navratna” category  for the year 2016 in recognition of their participation, involvement and  achievements of its women employees on their  professional and personal front and  commendable the support extended by the management. This is the ninth award for  RINL- WIPS wing and fourth in succession.  Sri P Madhusudan, CMD, RINL congratulated the women employees  for bringing laurels to the organization and commended their commitment, competency  and for  working with zeal in critical operation areas in the plant.  

Sri P Madhusudan, CMD, RINL, was awarded the “CA Business Leader Award” for his outstanding contribution to business in terms of wealth creation, change management, innovation in business practices, social responsibility and corporate governance.  Sri Madhusudan received the award in Chennai from the Shri K Pandiyarajan, Hon’ble Minister of Education, Sports & Youth Welfare of Govt. of Tamil Nadu, at a glittering function organised by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) and the Committee for Professional Accountants in Business and Industry. 

Visakhapatnam Steel Plant has been awarded National e-Governance Award  in Silver category for the project Gyan Era – E-learning management system for Innovative Use of ICT by Central Government PSUs for the year 2015-16. The award was presented by Sri PP Chaudhary, Union  Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology, at the 20th National Conference on e-Governance held at Visakhapatnam.  Sri KVSS Rajeswara Rao, GM(IT&ERP), Visakhapatnam Steel Plant received the award on behalf of RINL on Tuesday evening.

RINL again proved its supremacy over other PSUs by bagging the prestigious award  “QCFI award for Best Public Sector organisation-2016”    for carrying out innovations in its operational efficiency and contributing towards implementation of Quality Circles for the  6th time. While congratulating the Quality Circle winners, Sri P Madhusudan, CMD, RINL  mentioned that the award reflected the innovative ideas of RINL collective and its commitment in implementing QC projects in the organization.  

Shri P Madhusudan CMD of RINL was conferred with Best CEO award in Public Sector Category during the  Convention in Material Management (NATCOM-2016) being held at Hotel MARIGOLD in Hyderabad on 25th and 26th November 2016.