ECC News January-March 2009.pmd
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ECC News January-March 2009.pmd
Vol. 17, No. 1 , January-March, 2009 Employee Communication Journal of Larsen & Toubro Limited - ECC Division “Incredible, inspiring, how a group of visionaries with talented, dedicated and passioned workforce have created a mammoth organisaiton. My salutations.” – Mr. Yogesh K. Gupta, Ambassador of India to Denmark on January 2, 2009. “I heard about L&T. Today I saw the culture very closely and I was impressed with the commitment the staff have. I wish them all the best in the days to come.” – Mr. S.R. Jangid, IPS, Commissioner of Police on January 20, 2009. “Excellent Visuals.” – Mr. Bryn Fosburgh, Vice President, Mr. Prakash Iyer, Division Vice President, M/s. Trimble, USA and Mr. Rajan Iyer, M/s. Trimble, India on February 9, 2009. “A delightful and well assembled historical perspective of the growth and diversity of L&T. Very well narrated.” – Rear Admiral Vineet Bakshi, VSM, Director General, Naval Projects (MB) and Captain Dr. Satish Chandra Mittal, Director, Dry Dock (E&S) on February 26, 2009. “Very impressive facilities and excellent use of light for the exhibition. Thank you for a lovely tour.” – Ms. Aileen Nandi, Commercial Consul, Ms. Kelly Kopcial, Visa Officer and Mr. P. Vaidyanathan, Senior Commercial Specialist, US Commercial Service, American Consulate General on March 3, 2009. “Interesting and informative.” – Mr. H. Douglas Evans, P.E. – President & CEO, M/s. Gulf Interstate Engineering, Mr. David Ammerman, Head of Engineering, L&T-Gulf and Mr. Criss Shipman, Houston, TX, USA on March 18, 2009. Dear ECC-ites, Our Chairman & Managing Director, Shri. A.M. Naik has added one more feather to his cap. He has received one of the highest civilian awards of the nation, ‘Padma Bhushan’ for his contribution to Indian Industry. NeoKarma Yogi, Mr. Naik, with all his magnanimity said that he received the award on behalf of all employees of L&T. Though the Padma Bhushan is awarded for an individual’s contribution to the nation, through this gesture AMN is driving home the precept, ‘Team first, individual next’. We wish him many more laurels and successes ahead. The Division has bagged some major orders in Q-4. Dam package of 1200 MW Punatsangchhu-I Hydropower Project, Bhutan; Construction of 7 nos. 33 kV Substations and Power Transmission network in Abu Dhabi, UAE; Rural Electrification Works in Jalpaiguri & North 24-Parganas districts of West Bengal State; 330 MW Shrinagar Hydroelectric Project, Uttaranchal; Construction of Integrated Thematic Township comprising 3517 flats from the Andhra Pradesh Rajiv Swagruha Corporation Limited, Hyderabad; Construction of cement plants for M/s. KCP Limited and M/s. Lafarge. I am extremely happy with the performance of our Division during the year 2008-09. I believe that the Budget/MTR targets on various business and financial parameters (viz. Order Inflow, Sales, Profitability etc.) will be met with, demonstrating the ceaseless efforts of ECC-ites to improve performance levels. My sincere appreciation to all fellow ECC-ites, whose hard work and commitment have made this possible. I am quite optimistic about the performance of the Division in the Budget year 2009-10. Healthy order book as on Mar ’09 would give us a head start in the year 2009-10. We have recently concluded our budget meetings and kept pragmatic growth targets for the budget year. Sustained efforts from all of you can alone achieve these targets at a time, when the business scenario does not appear very bright throughout the world. To protect our bottomline, I suggest a three-pronged approach viz. 1. Optimise cost 2. Reduce wastage, and 3. Improve efficiency. There is enough room for improvement in utilisation of resources (both manpower and machinery). Improved utilisation of manpower while bringing savings to the organisation, improves the morale of employees as well. I am also looking forward to substantial reduction in overheads like travelling/conveyance expenses, power, telephones/ stationery etc. I request everyone to work towards these ends in his own sphere of operation. Verticalisation has almost reached maturity stage and OCs are functioning like near independent entities. I am happy to see that OCs are working on becoming more and more competitive and drive innovation led by technology. It is quite evident that OCs have been formed at the right time to take the Division to higher platforms in an accelerated way. We have won prestigious awards in various categories for Excellence in Performance and Quality, such as the Essar Steel Infrastructure Awards and Dun & Bradstreet Rolta Corporate Award. On the internal front, our ISD has bagged Chairman’s rolling trophy for ‘IT Effectiveness’. Our Division has been conferred the ‘CFO Award for the Best Presented Accounts’ for the financial year 200708 among the Divisions of L&T for the second time in a row. CONTENTS Corporate News 3 Innovations 15 Site Insight 16 Meet Our GMs 24 Safety News 34 Kaleidoscope 44 CSR 58 PRAYAS 60 HR News 62 Staff News 74 Long Service Awards 83 Mr. Amit Biswas, Construction Manager (Civil), Warora Thermal Power Plant Project receives his 20-year long service award from Mr. Shanker Mr. J.R. Gupta, Project Manager (EI&C), AB -AVVNL, Nagaur, receives his 20-year long service award from Mr. P. Chandramohan, Regional ManagerABRO Mr. K. Sundaramoorthy, Foreman (Elec), BL-220 KV Varahi-TL, receives his 25-year long service award from Mr. L.N. Mitra, Regional Manager-BLRO Mr. M. Govindasamy, Head – Plant & Machinery (MMH&W OC), receives his 30-year long service award from Mr. D.R. Ray – VP & Head (MMH&W OC) Mr. Dilip Kumar Poddar, ISD – EDRC, Kolkata receives his 30-year long service award from Mr. Derek Michael Shah – Head – Minerals & Metals BU Mr. H.K. Mandal, Engineering Manager, Kolkata receives his 25-year long service award from Mr. Derek Michael Shah Mr. Asish Kumar Sinha, Cluster Plant Manager, Jamshedpur receives his 20-year long service award from Mr. Anupam Kumar, Cluster Head (MMH&W) Mr. Ranjit Kumar Goswami, Works Manager TL-Tower Works, TLT-Pithampur, receives his 20-year long service award from Mr. Rajan Malhotra, Regional Manager – DLRO Mr. S. Chandrasekaran, Sr. Executive, Secretary, GES Chennai, receives his 25-year long service award from Mr. S. Sridhar, General Manager, L&T, e-Engineering, Chennai Mr. S. Duraisamy, Asst. Foreman (Welding) IG (OMA) – Oman receives his 25-year long service award from Mr. N. Ravi, Chief Executive, LTEM-Oman EDITOR V.S. Ramana EDITORIAL TEAM K. Sridharan Alexander Benjamin Ashwin Chand V. Ramesh Kumar V. Eswar Subha Anand PHOTOGRAPHY V.S. Natanavelu Printed at Lokavani Southern Printers Pvt. Ltd., 122, Greams Road, Chennai-600 006. Edited by V.S. Ramana for Larsen & Toubro Limited, ECC Division from ECC Headquarters, Manapakkam, Chennai 600089. Designed by PACE systems & graphic communications, Chennai 600018. The views expressed in this magazine are not necessarily those of the Management. The contents of this magazine may not be reproduced without the written permission of the Editor. Not for sale. Only for circulation among employees of L&T – ECC Division. While it is commendable to have achieved these honours, it brings in more responsibility to sustain and constantly improve our benchmarks in performance. K.V. Rangaswami Member of the Board & President (Construction) 2 January - March 2009 January - March 2009 87 CORPORATE NEWS ‘Infrastructure Company of the Year’ Award E18 – a division of Network 18 in association with Essar Steel and CNBC-TV18 organised the Infrastructure Excellence Awards in New Delhi to recognise and felicitate infrastructure companies for their contribution towards the Indian economy. L&T was honoured with two prestigious awards for Excellence in Construction. G G Infrastructure Company of the Year – special award category Co-winner along with GMR in the Airports Sector for the Hyderabad International Airport project Dr. Kirit Parikh, Member – Planning Commission and Mr. S.S. Kohli, Chairman & Managing Director, IIFCL presenting the award to Mr. S.N. Subrahmanyan The awards were given away on March 25, 2009 at a grand gala function, organised at The Taj Palace, New Delhi. While Mr. V.B. Gadgil, Senior Vice President & Head – E&GP OC received the “Infrastructure Company of the Year ” award, Mr. S.N. Subrahmanyan, Executive Vice President, B&F OC picked up the co-winner award for the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport at Hyderabad. Mr. V.B. Gadgil receiving the Infrastructure Company of the Year Award. Also seen in the picture (from left to right): Mr J. Mehra, CEO, Essar Steel; Mr Rakesh Mehta, Chief Secretary of Govt. of NCT of Delhi, Prof. K.T. Ravindran, Head – Urban Design, School of Planning & Architecture, Delhi and Mr. Raghav Bahl, Managing Director, Network 18 Over 50 infrastructure development companies competed for over 110 prizes in various categories. After short listing, the entries were presented to an eminent jury of industry experts and decision makers for selecting the who’s who of infrastructure sector. D&B-Rolta Top Indian Company Award for L&T L&T has bagged the award for Top Indian Company in a survey of India’s 500 leading companies conducted by Dun & Bradstreet – a leading provider of global business information, headquartered in USA. The D&B-Rolta Corporate Awards seek to recognise the twin virtues of size and growth in corporate India. L&T bagged the award in the Engineering & Capital Goods sector. The final ranking of the companies was based on a composite score of eight weighted parameters – total income, net profit, net worth, net profit margin, return on net worth, average market capitalisation, growth in total income and growth in net profit. Mr. J.P. Nayak, President (Machinery & Industrial Products) and Member of the Board, received the award at the presentation ceremony in Mumbai on March 23, 2009. January - March 2009 Mr. David Emery, President – Asia Pacific, Dun & Bradstreet, handing the award to Mr. J.P. Nayak, President (Machinery & Industrial Products), Larsen & Toubro Limited 3 CFO Awards for ECC and L&T IDPL ECC Division was conferred the CFO award for the best presented accounts for the financial year 2007-08 among the divisions of L&T. This is the second time in a row and third such award for ECCD; the earlier one was in 2003-04. Mr. B. Ramakrishnan (BR), Vice President & Head – (Finance, Accounts and Admn.) B. .Ramakrishnan, Vice President Head – Karthikeyan (right), General & Manager Mr. T.V. Karthikeyan, General Manager – received the award from Mr. T.V (Finance, Accounts and Admn.) along with – Finance & Accounts, receiving the “CFO Finance & Accounts, receiving the “CFO Award Mr. M.V. Kotwal, Director Mr. M.S. DGM Subsidiary Finance & for Seshadri the Best (Sr. Presented for the Best Presented Subsidiary Company at a function held in Award Accounts) receiving thefrom “CFO Award the Best Accounts” Mr. M.V.forKotwal, Accounts” from Mr. Kotwal Mumbai on January 10, Company PresentedExecutive Accounts” from M.V. Kotwal, Senior Senior ViceMr.President, Heavy 2009. Accepting the award, Executive Vice President, Heavy Engineering BR said that he dedicates it to the entire Accounts The Developmental Projects team finalised accounts of L&T and Finance fraternity of the Division spread across various sites, factories, regions and head quarters and thanked the IDPL and 28 other subsidiaries (including two overseas companies) besides the accounts of ECCD’s Developmental ISD team for the continued support. Projects. Accepting the award, Mr. Karthikeyan said that Considering the fact that there are 76 subsidiary companies, this achievement was a result of excellent team work and L&T Corporate Accounts introduced the CFO award for dedication of the accountants spread across various projects best presented subsidiary company accounts for the financial and headquarters and thanked Corporate Accounts and the year 2007-08. L&T Infrastructure Development Projects auditors for their continued support. Limited (“L&TIDPL”) was conferred the CFO award among all the subsidiaries of L&T. Mr. T.V. Karthikeyan, Mr. A. Santhanakrishnan, Assistant Manager – Accounts, General Manager – Finance & Accounts received the award L&TIDPL was conferred the CFO Award for the Young Achiever of the year. from Mr. M.V. Kotwal. Lifetime Contribution Award for Dr. A. Ramakrishna PRSI Excellence Award for Mr. V.S. Ramana The National Institute of Construction Management and Research (NICMAR) honoured Dr. A. Ramakrishna, former Deputy Managing Director, L&T, with Lifetime Contribution Award during its annual convocation held on April 4, 2009. The chief guest, Hon. Dr. John Hood, Vice-Chancellor, University of Oxford, presented the award to Dr. Ramakrishna. The Public Relations Society of India (PRSI), Chennai Chapter, honoured Mr. V.S. Ramana, Head – Corporate Communications, ECCD with PRSI Excellence Award – 2008 at the 30th PRSI All India PR Conference held at Guwahati on December 29, 2008. The award commended Mr. Ramana for promoting Conferences and Seminars in a big way. Mr. N. Vaghul, ICICI Bank Chairman, presented the award to Mr. V.S. Ramana 4 January - March 2009 ISD Bags Chairman’s Rolling Trophy for “IT EFFECTIVENESS” Information System Department of ECC bagged the First Chairman’s Rolling Trophy for “IT EFFECTIVENESS 2008” formulated by L&T Corporate IT. Nominations were sought from all operating divisions and the evaluation was based on Alignment, Value & Benefits, Risk Management, Total Cost of Ownership, and Service & Support on a rating scale of 5. The award qualification was formed based on standards followed by Global frameworks like CMM of SEI CMU, COBIT, Val-IT. This was named as STAR FRAMEWORK by Corporate IT. This directly measures the value delivered to business by IT. The evaluation was in two stages, self evaluation and the second one is validation by Jury. Mr. Anantha Sayana, Head, Corporate IT, in his congratulatory note to Mr. K.V. Rangaswami mentioned “Your support and the effective participation of the business in all the IT initiatives of ECC is a key factor for this success besides the great work that Mr. B. Srinivasan and his team have done.” Mr. B. Srinivasan, Head, ISD -ECCD, receiving the award from Mr. A.M. Naik along with his team members Mr. A.M. Naik, Chairman & Managing Director, L&T, presented the award to Mr. B. Srinivasan, Head, ISD-ECC at a glittering function on February 9, 2009, in the presence of CMC members, senior business leaders and IT teams from ODs. The award further endorses ISD-ECC’s progress and hard work in making EIP a success story in achieving value to the construction business. EIP-Finance Manual Launched A comprehensive EIP-Finance Manual was launched by Mr. B. Ramakrishnan (Head – Finance) during F&A Meet on 25th March, 2009 in presence of Mr B. Srinivasan (Head – Information System), Mr. M.S. Seshadri (Sr. DGM Finance & Accounts), OC F&A Heads and other Finance & Accounts staff. With the advancement in technology, organisations are now going beyond traditional ERP solutions to Business Intelligent Solutions, Data Warehousing and Data Mining Solutions. Accounting profession plays a crucial role in collecting and analysing data that are used in management planning and control. With the emerging technologies, EIP as Web-based IT solution provider has made rapid strides and covered almost all ECCD operations, right from Planning to Procurements, Execution, MIS, Audit, Statutory Compliance and Risk Management. Mr. B. Ramakrishnan, Vice President & Head – (Finance, Accounts and Admn.) along with Mr. B. Srinivasan (Head – Information System) launching the EIP-Finance Manual Considering the diversity of our operations and the developments that are taking place continuously, the need for a comprehensive accounts manual has been highlighted by users in various forums. Hence the Finance Manual, which essentially covers Finance Module and also touches upon other modules, is brought out by System Team – Ms. Geetha Sunilkumar (Team Leader), Messrs Murali. M.M.V. Ravishankar, K. Kannan, M. Ragavendran and P.T Narayanan – to guide EIP F&A users. The manual loaded in ‘EIP Vidhya’ can be accessed by F&A staff through the following link: http://km.lntecc.com/dcs/DCFA/FA/FA/AAM/Ams/ Pages/default.aspx EIP team members January - March 2009 5 Microsoft Lauds ECC’s IT Effectiveness It has been a continuous endeavour at ISD to adopt new technologies and offer faster, better services and business application to users. ECC’s progress and hard work in making EIP a success story is a testimony to its various IT applications and initiatives. Always the first for ensuring IT Effectiveness, the Information Systems Department (ISD) have been pathbreakers and pathfinders. When Microsoft introduced the latest version SQL database 2005, the think-tank at ISD thought it apt to implement it and derive the early benefits. Mr. B. Srinivasan, Head – Information Systems, Larsen and Toubro, Engineering Construction & Contracts (ECC), says “we were on a previous version of database and several distributed systems depended on replication for the current data. This resulted in lot of time spent and slower response. Proactively we thought to move into the 64 bit architecture to enjoy the better handling of data and provide rich user experience. We prepared ourselves to make the business application provide faster response. The moment Microsoft introduced the latest version, we migrated our existing application onto it and optimised the applications. The data processing and retrieval periods are much faster for daily operational tasks with SQL Server 2005. This means employee productivity has increased as they can access data and reports on the fly instead of waiting for the loads to decrease in the late evening. “Microsoft appreciated our efforts and also assessed our practices and seeing the result and success have decided to host the same as a case study in their site. We enjoy the status of early adopters with resulting good business solution. This is a privilege and we would like to share this success, milestone, recognition and happiness with all ECC-ites.” The case study is posted in EIP Vidhya: http:// k m . l n t e c c . c o m / d c s / D C C / I T / S t u d y / I n f r a s t r u c t u re/ LNT%20ECCcase%20study.pdf Microsoft MD Visits ECC Mr. Rajan Anandan, MD, Microsoft evinced interest to call on ECC on March 25, 2009. Since ECC is an ardent user of Microsoft applications, software and also having successfully developed a Home Grown ERP – EIP, offering a complete Single Window Operations, ECC’s IT effectiveness was a subject of interest and study to Mr. Rajan Anandan. A presentation was made by ISD team on ECC’s birth and the path in which it has tread and its success. Mr. Rajan Anandan had a meeting with Mr. B. Srinivasan, Head Information Systems, Mr. K.P. Raghavan, Executive Vice President, and Mr. B. Ramakrishnan, Vice President, FA&A. Later, he made a briefing to the ISD team leaders and thanked for the patronage ECC carried with Microsoft and complimented the Information Systems Department of ECC for being successful in developing the application processes and having the ERP in place. He also said, “It is very heartening to know that L&T ECC is becoming a referral and template for many organisations across the globe in terms of case studies and is a great user of Microsoft technology.” Mr. Rajan Anandan (extreme left) MD, Microsoft, seen along with Mr. B. Srinivasan and ECC-ISD team leaders Mr. Rajan Anandan along with his team in a meeting with Mr. B. Srinivasan, Mr. K.P. Raghavan and Mr. B. Ramakrishnan 6 January - March 2009 Microsoft Site Verbatim L&T, Engg. Construction & Contracts (ECC) Construction Major Caters to Increase in Load by Taking its Data Platform to the Next Level Case Study Posted: February 19, 2009 Situation: L&T ECC followed a decentralized system wherein operational control was exercised by seven regional centers. Even the technology infrastructure followed a similar model. Each region had its own servers and database systems for different applications that included: • Customer Relationship Management • Supply Chain Management • Contractor/Sub Contractors Management • Finance Management • Business Support Systems • Asset Management • Workflow Systems • Every business process was covered uniformly by enterprise applications that were used across business units and integrated with core ERP i.e. Enterprise Information Portal (EIP). EIP modules can forecast with a degree of accuracy and are updated online based on business events. Over the years, as the company expanded its operations and the number of concurrent users increased to over 400, a 100 percent growth, certain performance and technology issues came to the fore. All the regions had their own server infrastructure for each application module. In this multi-server environment, database administration time increased as updates and other changes had to be applied across servers. This resulted in reduced productivity and higher maintenance costs.Because of the increased load, applications started ‘timing out’, that is, the data was not getting retrieved. Consequently, L&T ECC employees had to stay back late or use alternative computing resources such as cyber cafes to get the work completed on time. Solution: The technology team at L&T ECC realized that significant benefits could be derived by moving to the 64bit architecture, and having a centralized system. A 64-bit architecture would also allow L&T ECC to make optimal use of their hardware resources.At the same time, L&T ECC decided to consolidate the servers centrally. This would reduce maintenance time, enable efficient load balancing, and also allow central management of features such as disaster recovery, increase productivity, and result in timesavings for all employees, resulting in a lower TCO. Keeping these considerations in mind, L&T ECC upgraded to Microsoft SQL Server 2005 on a 64-bit architecture and moved the servers from the regional centers to the main headquarters. The upgrade and the server consolidation were carried out successfully. An initial trial reassured the technology team that there were no bottlenecks. “After the upgrade all that was required was LUN mapping—since we were working in a SAN environment,” explains Mr. P.V. Jayaprakash, Head IT Infrastructure, L&T ECCD. “The entire upgrade and change didn’t require any effort”. Benefits: Better performance, reduced maintenance time and cost savings were just some of the benefits L&T ECC achieved with the upgrade to SQL Server 2005 and the server consolidation. January - March 2009 Improved Performance: The 64-bit SQL Server 2005 was able to utilize the full capabilities of the existing hardware, thereby resulting in tangible improvements without investing in new hardware. Data was available as and when required, applications didn’t ‘time out’, and there was faster access to reports. Now L&T ECC employees didn’t have to work late evenings to get reports, or go to cyber cafes for their work. “The data processing and retrieval periods are much faster for daily operational tasks with SQL Server 2005. This means employee productivity has increased as they can access data and reports on the fly instead of waiting for the load to decrease in the late evening,” mentions Mr. P.V. Jayaprakash, Head IT Infrastructure, L&T ECC. The upgrade to SQL Server 2005 also helped L&T ECC build in redundancy, and allow for future expansions. Reduced Maintenance by 90 Percent: The server consolidation resulted in significant time saving for the database administrators as well as the IT team. “The time spent on maintenance has reduced by 90 percent with the upgrade to SQL Server 2005 and server consolidation,” informs Mr. P. Rengarajan, Head Enterprise Information Portal, L&T ECCD. Refocussing Resources: Talking about its impact on the IT team and its employees, Mr. P.V. Jayaprakash, Head IT Infrastructure, L&T ECCD says, “This means we can provide proactive services to our end users by redeploying our IT support personnel in more meaningful and higher value roles.” Server Consolidation Reduces Costs: The upgrade to SQL Server 2005 was achieved without any additional hardware being purchased. At the same time, workload has been consolidated on single servers. This translated into the IT team’s ability to support the business with less hardware. “Because of the server consolidation, we have been able to lower equipment costs, reduced electrical consumption, and more space in the data center,” explains Mr. P.V. Jayaprakash, Head IT Infrastructure, L&T ECCD. Elaborating further he adds, “Also we have reduced the data transfer between the regions and provided instant data on central server. It also saved some good amount of network traffic.” Since deploying SQL Server 2005, Mr. P. Rengarajan, Head Enterprise Information Portal, L&T ECCD says, “We have reduced hardware by 80 percent, saving more than 50 percent of our hardware costs.” Using Additional Capabilities: The technology team at L&T ECC has plans to make use of the full capabilities of SQL Server 2005. “Clustering and disaster recovery are two areas we are looking at, as also moving to the .Net architecture,” mentions Mr. P.V. Jayaprakash, Head IT Infrastructure, L&T ECCD. It is also expected to grow in multiple folds as the entire ECCD has been split into four operating companies and our EIP should cater the growing needs. Over the next years we are expecting the load on the data environment to increase by 200 percent and are confident that SQL Server will scale to meet this requirement. We are very keen to adopt new technology the moment they are released and experience the benefits. 7 Asking for help when you need is the most obvious thing to do on the face of it but perhaps one of the most difficult tasks for the employees today, particularly the younger lot. For the convenience of employees and in its endeavour for excellent HR practices “DISHA” an Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) was launched at HQ, Chennai on February 27, 2009. EDRC-Buildings and Factories Operating Company has partnered a very renowned consultant “PPC worldwide” to provide EAP support services to its more than 500 employees and their immediate family members at HQ, Chennai. Mr. N. Dharmarajan, Head – HR, B&F OC, in his welcome address emphasised the importance of an EAP particularly 8 in the EDRC setup where the average age group of employees is just 28 years. He stressed the need for involvement of professional counsellors for helping and guiding youngsters in various personal and work related issues. Mr. S. Kanappan, Vice President & Head EDRC, B&F OC, in his opening remarks complimented the HR team for this first of its kind initiative for employees of EDRC. He urged EDRC staff members at HQ, Chennai to avail the facilities of DISHA when feel stressed, depressed or Mr. S.N. Subrahmanyan, Executive Vice President & Head, B&F OC delivering the inaugural address January - March 2009 worried. He also said on the success of this programme at HQ, Chennai this facility will be extended to other locations of EDRC-B&F. Mr. S.N.Subrahmanyan, Executive Vice President & Head B&F OC, in his inaugural address emphasised the importance of taking and finding some diversions and interests other than professional work. Speaking on the occasion, SNS urged the staff members to nurture different interests like sports and music beyond the work in order to bust stress, keep fit and become more creative. Mr. Kumud Rajendran, CEO of PPC worldwide, India, made a presentation to more than 500 employees of EDRC B&F who were present on the occasion and gave a brief orientation about the deliverables and usages of the DISHA, EAP Programme. The DISHA EAP service is available 24/7 with Toll-free phone nos. for telephonic counselling to provide immediate support and guidance on any issue viz. work life enhancement services, legal advice, money management, image and confidence building, relationship management etc. for the employees and their immediate family members. Mr. S.N. Subrahmanyan giving the DISHA card to Mr. Bikram K. Nayak, Manager (Personnel) while officially releasing the DISHA posters and cards during the launching ceremony Mr. Bikram K. Nayak, Manager (Personnel) concluded the proceedings and thanked the Management, Division Department Heads and colleagues of EDRC B&F and CCD for their support to have the DISHA, EAP Programme in place for the benefit of staff members. A cross-section of the audience January - March 2009 9 Mr. Subhash Guha, President (Credit Society), delivering the welcoming address. Others seen (left to right) are Mr. P. Benedict, Secretary (Credit Society), Mr. K.V. Rangaswami, President (Construction), Dr. Stanley Elango, Research Scholar and Chief Guest, Mr. J. Bhaskaran, Vice President (Credit Society) To commemorate the unstinted services rendered by the founders of L&T Group Employees’ Cooperative Thrift & Credit Society, its successive Board Members and its dedicated staff, the Society organised a celebration of its 40th anniversary (Ruby Jubilee) at the L&T-ECC Convention Centre, Manapakkam on January 22, 2009. The Chief Guest on the occasion was Mr. K.V. Rangaswami, President (Construction), who is himself a founder member of the Society. The Chief Speaker was Dr. Stanley Elango, Faculty Member, Natesan Institute of Cooperative Management, Chennai. The large gathering comprised members from ECC and other Divisions such as L&T-Chennai, L&T Ramboll, L&T Infotech, TLT Pondicherry Works, L&T Infocity, Forty years ago an acorn that was planted in the L&T culture of thrift and employees’ self help has grown into a huge oak that today harbours over 4000 L&T-ites. This sheltering tree is none other than the L&T Group Employees’ Cooperative Thrift & Credit Society Limited. Indeed, it has been offering L&T-ites timely financial assistance over the years to tide over crisis situations – be it a child’s higher education funding or marriage expense, sudden hospitalisation, housing loan, or luxury domestic purchases such as an AC, bike, car and so on. Cautious Credit: The Credit Society, started in December 1968, was the brainchild of its founder-President Mr. C.R. Ramakrishnan, then GM – L&T in charge of its Madras Regional Office. He later became the first Indian CEO of L&T-ECC (1975-1991) and retired as Jt. Managing Director, L&T. Those were the days when bank loans were hard to come by. As a result, the salaried class invariably fell a prey to loan sharks, whose usury wrecked the lives of the loanee and his family. Even in today’s situation when loans are there for the taking, our Credit Society offers low interest loans, with built-in safeguards, ensuring repaying facilities like deductions at source (from the pay packet). Nurturing Thrift: The Society engenders the thrift habit among members with monthly compulsory deductions at source. Besides, it offers FD and RD schemes at attractive interest rates to nurture the thrift habit. Role Model: The Society is a path breaker in the Cooperative movement, with innovative group insurance and death relief schemes, computerised accounting and a website that provides a member his latest loan-cum-savings status at any given time. It is a role model and a research subject for cooperative management institutes. 10 January - March 2009 L&T Case, L&T Mysore Works and L&T-IDPL – a vast spread indeed of L&T establishments in South India, whose employees avail of the Society’s services wherever they may be posted in India. Mr. S. Guha, JGM, Special Projects, L&T-Chennai & President of the Society delivered the welcome address. He traced the salient features of the Society’s Board of Directors with Staff: Sitting from left to right: Society, highlighting the Mr. G. Manohar; Mr. J. Bhaskaran (V.P.); Mr. Subhash Guha (President); Mr. B. Maikandan; pioneering role played by T. Suresh; Mr. P.N. Bharath Raj. Standing left to right: Mr. S.P. Suresh Kumar; founder-President Mr. C.R. Mr. R. Rajeswaran; Mr. P. Benedict; Mr. Y. John and Mr. J. Balamurugan Ramakrishnan who identified and appointed managers of high calibre as Board members to run the Society. It paved the way for professional management which is the major reason for the Society’s successful operations and scam-free image over the decades. Apart from memberoriented quality financial services, and competitive interest rates for depositors and borrowers, the Society’s surplus (profit) is disbursed among members as attractive dividend. Mr. Mr. Y. John (fifth from left) received his 20-year long service award from Mr. Subhash Guha, Guha said the latest President. Also seen along are Directors and staff of L&T’s Credit Society dividend declared by the Society was 18% as against 16% the preceding year. with several innovative schemes that encourage the thrift Innovative facilities include a low premium (Rs.25 p.m.) habit among employees. Such is the confidence it inspires LIC Group Insurance Scheme with Life Risk coverage of among members, said KVR, that even after retirement Rs.1 lakh and a death relief scheme of Rs.50000 based on from service many prefer to park some of their hard earned a one-time refundable deposit. Also member awareness savings with the Society. Himself an active witness as programmes on how to enhance financial security through founder-member to the Society’s growth from humble the Society’s thrift schemes, are organised at various regions beginnings, KVR expressed pleasant surprise at its present and sites, he said. The Society meets all statutory corpus which stands at Rs.32 crores! He felt confident requirements such as conducting external audits and timely that it would not only attain a corpus of Rs.100 crores in AGMs. Regular rotation of Board members and staff the next 10 years but also attract many more members, motivation for prompt service are welcome features. All helping them in times of need and also encouraging them this, plus its helpful rapport with cooperative unions at the to save up for a safe future. To this end he wished the national and state levels makes it a model Society, he Society all success. concluded. ECC-ite Mr. G. Manohar, Director of the Society read out Mr. K.V. Rangaswami felicitated the Society on its 40 years a touching message from Mr. C.R. Ramakrishnan who of dedicated service of extending timely financial assistance could not grace the Ruby Jubilee function for personal to its members. He lauded the vision of CRR who launched reasons. Deeming it a proud moment for the Society, CRR the Society with the aim of aiding employees in need, conveyed his happiness over the enormous growth of its thereby saving them from the clutches of usurious money corpus and member strength to the stature of a cooperative lenders. He personally nurtured it over two decades, helping bank in these words: “ The Society has significantly it to emerge as an exemplary Thrift and Credit Society, contributed to improving the living standards of members January - March 2009 11 and ensured equitable distribution of benefits to depositors and borrowers alike… The Society has effectively deployed (modern) technology for quickly delivering efficient service to members and has been acknowledged as a model society founded and run on the principle of true cooperative spirit… On this historic occasion, I extend my greetings and heartiest congratulations… My best wishes for the continued success and further growth… in the years to come.” The Chief Speaker, Dr. Stanley Elango, a noted research scholar on the cooperative movement, began by congratulating our Society for its yeoman service to L&T-ites. He traced the origin of the cooperative movement to 1884 in England where the first society was formed by and for 28 flannel weavers. Soon the trend picked momentum and spread across the globe. In India the first cooperative was formed in 1904 at Thirur, Thiruvalluvar District, Tamil Nadu. Thus to Chennai goes the credit for the genesis of such employee self-help groups. Today there are 2800 thrift societies in Tamil Nadu, he stated, out of which the best society is the L&T model. Dr. Stanley said cooperatives engender democratic management which is the best form of administration as it promotes a cordial relationship of openness, trust and mutuality among members. Importantly, members are themselves both owners and users. “What a beautiful concept,” he averred. When your Society can offer up to Rs.3.5 lakh as loan at interests much lower than any other The ultimate objective of any Credit Society is to ameliorate poverty and improve the standard of living of its members. Even today, 70% of the population depends on agriculture for its livelihood. Who issues timely credit to the agricultural fraternity in India? Indeed, 38% of the total credit is being met by cooperatives for agricultural production. It is unbelievable that 5,75,000 societies are engaged in this activity. When it comes to urban areas, the central cooperative banks, urban cooperative banks and the thrift-cum-credit societies distribute credit to members employed in private, public and multinational companies. Democratic management is the best form of administration and is more suitable to cooperatives, since the relationship between the General Body and Board members will be not only more cordial but also engender trust and openness. — Excerpts from Dr. Stanley Elango’s Keynote Address lender, go for it, he advised members, as these loans are professionally planned and easy to access, thanks to trendy technology that enables loan processing at the click of a mouse! On the success of a cooperative society, he said it lies in the hands of its members. Many lenders offer loans at lower interest to begin with. But over time they will A cross-section of the audience 12 January - March 2009 increase the rate and will become the monopoly in the lending market if members ignore their Society’s credit offer, he cautioned. Hence “I request members not to entertain private lenders when you can avail the loan at reasonable fixed interest from your Society.” He concluded with these words: “If you unite and receive loan from thrift society it will grow or else it may face trouble. So bank with your Society and grow your wealth faster. Borrow from it only when in dire need. (For more excerpts from his keynote address, see box item, “Little-known Co-op facts.”) Society Vice-President Mr. J. Bhaskaran proposed the vote of thanks. He paid tribute to erstwhile Presidents and Board members as also to Shared Service Centre (SSC) – Powai for Salary Recovery Co-ordinations, and to the Auditors Sharp & Tannon. He thanked the participants too. As a token of appreciation as well as to motivate the savings habit among members, gifts were presented to the following leading depositors in the Society’s thrift Schemes: Mr. S. Balakrishnan, GM – MIPD, Bangalore, Mr. Suresh D. Kotadia (L&T-Infotech), Mr. Samuel Athisaya Raj (ECC), Mrs. D. Sumathi (ECC) and Mr. K. Periswamy (L&T-Pune). In Conversation with our Credit Society Secretary Highly approachable, he speaks with considerable poise, pause and aplomb on matters of loans and savings. His confidence stems from 35 years’ experience in his chosen field – to wit, the cooperative movement. He is none other than Mr. P. Benedict (PB), a popular name in L&T circles. Many may not have seen him but would know he is the Secretary of L&T’s Credit Society. Yes, the person to address to avail a loan. PB’s confidence is further fortified by the services he has been rendering over the years to his “clients” who are the tens and thousands of members comprising the Society general body. PB’s service career almost runs parallel to the age of the Society which is 40. He joined the ranks a little over five years after the Society had been launched in 1968; and was promoted as its Secretary in 1980. In keeping with the promise of professional management the Society’s Board members are periodically rotated, says PB. This has been to his advantage as it enabled his working under seven vice-presidents who were also chartered accountants. Their combined financial acumen provided ample grist to his knowledge mill. It helped PB steer the Society to its eminent position today as an exemplary institution in the country’s cooperative movement. It won the Best Co-operative Society Award of the Tamil Nadu State Government in 1991 and the Regional Award for Chennai Region in 1990 and 1991. According to PB, a milestone which the Society had been striving for met with success in 1992. This was its MultiState Cooperative Societies’ Registration under the National Act, made possible thanks to the vast geographic spread of its members across the country. It proved to be a turning point in the Society’s fortunes. It heralded greater democratic control over its affairs. It provided the Society exemption from tax on surplus monies and the freedom to disseminate it amongst members as higher dividend. It also paved the way for enhanced member-oriented services like Group Insurance and Death Relief Schemes, Fixed and Recurring Deposit Schemes with attractive returns in addition to Compulsory Deposits. Even retired veterans could patronise the FD facility. An independent web site January - March 2009 that offers latest-status access to loans-cum-savings details to individual members (with password protection) is the ruby in the Society’s crown. Today, with almost the status of a cooperative bank, the Society is alive to its corporate social responsibilities, says PB. It offers grants to charitable institutions and relief funds of the Government. All these innovative facilities entail heavy work load, as there are 4300-odd accounts to be serviced by just a handful of staff including PB. They need to constantly update their skills to keep pace with technology. They also conduct Member Awareness Programmes which call for travel to Regional offices, sites and to affiliated Divisions. Thus, everything the Society has achieved is the result of team work, trust and mutuality, he avers. Acknowledged as an erudite cooperative consultant, PB is often approached for giveand-take support and advice on Society management by peer groups. Such mutuality resulted in the Thrift Cooperative Federation (TCF), an apex body for thrift co-operative societies in the southern States. The TCF idea was mooted by a visiting team member of the World Council of Credit Unions — Washington, with our Society playing a lead role in its formation. A founder member of TCF, registered in 1996 in Delhi, PB has served as its Chairman for two terms from 2000 to 2006. Quizzed on how he happened to join the Credit Society, PB says, when he landed in Chennai equipped with a B.Com degree (Alagappa Univ., Karaikudi) and a Diploma in Cooperatives, he had three offers despite the tight job market in 1974. He opted for L&T Credit Society as it seemed to be in his line of specialisation. Besides, he wanted to follow his role model, a public-spirited Cooperative Society President from his village. In PB’s case, the spirit to serve extends to leisure time social activities, too, like organizing eye camps, visiting the sick in hospitals and helping the destitute through church forums. PB is blessed with a happy family of wife, daughter and son. His daughter is doing CA after B.Com. His son is in engineering college. 13 CSTI Signs MoU with Ministry of Rural Development Construction Skills Training Department of L&T-ECC Division has entered into an MoU in March 2009 with the Ministry of Rural Development, Govt. of India in support of MoRD’s implementation of “Demand Driven Skill Development Programme” of livelihood through training. This strategic tie-up with MoRD is a part of L&T’s Skill Development Initiatives by means of training the Rural youth in Construction Skills, to enable their livelihood and it is covered under Swaranjayanti Gram Swarojgar Yojna (SGSY) Scheme of Govt. of India. The project plan of this MoU, envisages training of 15,000 rural youth below poverty line (BPL), to be sourced by MoRD, from 5 states, viz., Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Chattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh and the project duration is 3 years commencing from April 2009. L&T-ECC Division is entrusted with the responsibility of training the rural youth and the Govt. is providing L&T, a financial assistance of Rs.9500/- per trainee towards a portion of the training cost, which includes cost of testing and certification. The special feature of the above project plan offers excellent opportunity to L&T-ECC Division to train the rural youth in ECC’s Construction Skills Training Institutes and engage them on work in Company’s project sites. Thus, L&TECC Division’s contribution to the country is three-fold: G G G Training the rural youth in construction skills to make them employable in Construction Industry including Company’s project sites. Helping to reduce the huge gap between “demand” and “availability” of skilled manpower in the Construction Industry in India. Participation in Nation’s strategy for development of rural youth for their livelihood. World Skills Development Summit Mr. J. Ganguly, Executive Vice President and Mr. S. Natarajan, Head – Construction Skills Training participated in the World Skills Development Summit on January 29, 2009, organised by Sri Ramakrishna Mission Vidayala, Belur. JG chaired the session of World Skills Development Summit and also gave an overview on employment generation through Construction Skills. Mr. S. Natarajan made a short presentation on L&T Skills Development initiative in the Construction Sector. The other topics covered in the summit by eminent speakers from various industries were Skill Development – a priority issue for urgent initiative, Soft Skills Industry expects from Students, Skill Development, World Skills 2007, Japan. The programme was well attended by academicians, members from industry, students and press. Mr. J. Ganguly, addressing the gathering Seminar on Vaastu Science & Technology The Institution of Civil Engineers, Chennai Chapter and L&T organised a seminar on In Search of Indian Cultural Roots – Vaastu Science & Technology on 7 March, 2009 at Convention Centre, Chennai. Padma Bhushan Dr. Ganapathi Stapathi, India’s leading authority on Vaastu Shastra and direct descendant of an illustrious linage of traditional sculptors and temple architects responsible for building the Brihadeeswara temple in Tanjore was the key speaker for the session. Dr. Ganapathi Stapathi (second from left), briefing about Vaastu concepts 14 Dr. Ganapathi Stapathi highlighted that Vastu (energy) and Vaastu (gross matter) which has gained wider acceptance in today’s world is grounded very strongly in Indian spiritual and material spheres. He stressed on their scientific potency and how the Vedic knowledge of Vastu and Vaastu could be very significant in our daily life and can be effectively incorporated to derive maximum benefit in planning and construction. He called for this art to be preserved, revived and protected for the benefit of mankind. January - March 2009 I N N OVAT I O N S Miniature P&M Models Developed at Panvel Complex Training and innovation are always part of the Panvel P&M team. A hands-on experience was carried out recently at P&M Technical Training Centre, with available raw materials as part of training curriculum with zero cost to match the present site options. Three numbers of miniature models of Batching plant, Hydraulic mobile crane (Rough terrain) and tower crane were Mr. S.J. Punnose – Head P&M BU, Divisional Corporate, inaugurating the miniature models. Also seen in the picture are Mr. S. Narayanan, CPLM developed, benefitting O&M team and user for in-depth familiarisation with respect to construction machines. These models were inaugurated by SJP – Head P&M BU, Divisional Corporate on February 2, 2009, who expressed his happiness on these innovative and educative models. Mr. S. Narayanan, CPLM, was also present. Fastest Erection of Terex-Comedil Tower Crane at Oberoi Site Mumbai Cluster, B&F OC erected the CTT181-B TerexComedil Tower Crane at Oberoi Commerical 2&3 site in national record time of 2 days. This unique feat was made possible by micro level planning in logistics arrangements in line with erection sequence, simultaneous assembling and erection, by two different teams under the supervision of site P&M Incharge Mr. R. Vaithi Subramanian with the guidance of CPLM with timely supports from project manager Mr. S. Arokiaraj. This achievement was highly appreciated by Mr. B.N. Sheth, B&F Cluster projects manager and Mr. S.N. Subrahmanyan, Executive Vice President, B&F OC. Mr. R. Vaithi Subramanian and his team members were felicitated with citation at Mumbai Cluster office. January - March 2009 15 HEIGHTS OF POWERING Karcham WangtooAbdullapur 400kV D/C (Quad) Transmission Line Developed by Power Grid Corporation of India, a joint venture between Jaypee Powergrid Limited (JPL) and Jaiprakash Hydro Power Limited, the 400 kV Double Circuit (Quad Bundle) Transmission System is designed for evacuation of 1000 MW power scheduled to be generated from Karcham Wangtoo hydro electric project and future upstream projects in Sutlej basin. L&T has been awarded the contract to supply, erect and commission the line located in Kinnaur District of Himachal Pradesh. The total construction cost of the Negotiating an average elevation of 2200m through deep valleys and river crossings across a span of 300 km in extreme climatic conditions makes the execution of Karcham Wangtoo – Abdullapur 400kV D/C (Quad) Transmission Line, the first of its kind in a hilly terrain, a unique and challenging task. project is around Rs. 280 crore and the construction period is 28 months. For execution and logistics purposes the line construction is divided into two sections – Package A1 (77 km) from Wangtoo to Bagi and Package A2 (84 km) from Bagi to Sarahan in Himachal Pradesh. The total length of the line is 161 km. The uniqueness of the line is the composite transmission system specifically designed to accommodate future lines coming in the upstream of Sutlej River thereby avoiding multiple line construction in Himachal Pradesh and preserving the ecology. ECC’s scope of work includes detailed survey, profiling, spotting and optimisation of tower locations, soil Project team surveying in steep hills Snowbound pathways during winter resistivity measurement, geotechnical investigation and check survey, fabrication and supply of all types of transmission line towers as per owners’ design including all types of tower accessories, supply of earth wire, hardware fittings, conductor and earth wire accessories, selecting type of foundation for different type of towers and casting of foundation for tower footings, erection of towers, fixing of insulator strings, stringing of conductor and earth wire along with all necessary line accessories and testing and commissioning of the erected transmission lines. The major quantum of works comprises 8,00,000 cum of excavation, and 40,000 cum of concreting in 350 locations, 20,000 t of supply and erection of tower, 161 km of stringing (Quad-Moose Conductor). The project activities commenced immediately after letter of award thereby availing the best working season for critical activities such as survey, foundation etc. The line passes through snow bound high hills, forest area, orchards in Kinnaur, Shimla and Sirmour Districts of Himachal Pradesh. Most of the tower locations are 2 to 4 km away from motorable roads with the approach roads being traditional pathways. All construction materials are shifted to the locations by manual head loading or by mules. Ropeway systems have been installed in certain areas to transport materials for speedy completion and reduce the dependability on workmen. With close to 40% of the work completed, the project is strategically placed and the entire line is scheduled for commissioning by June 2010. facilities and amenities for them at such remote locations is another arduous task which is well managed with the help of experienced staff.” With regard to safety measures, MNA states “Most of the danger lies in climbing down from the work place. 60% of the line passes through steep slopes and dense forest. During induction, safety issues are highlighted and instructions given to the workmen not to come down after 6 pm, avoid material salvaging during forest fire. Materials are refurbished once in 15 days. The site has clocked 3 million safe-man hours and is expected to achieve 20 million manhours during the course of execution.” Mr. M. Nizar Ahamed (MNA), Project Manager, says “The major challenge is in negotiating the hilly terrain. With around 6 lakh cum of excavation in rocky strata at hilltops, making approaches to the locations for the equipment is a tough task. As the locations are situated above deep valleys and hills, transportation of the construction materials (coarse & fine aggregate, cement, steel, tower structure etc.) is done through head loading, ropeways and mules. An average of 3 km head loading is required for locations. MNA states “At present we have 3000 workmen and during peak activity we will be requiring 12000 workmen across the 160 km stretch scattered in three districts in 360 odd locations. The major activity is coordinating the works, as each gang will be 10 to 15 km interior on the hills and accessing them from the road will require a minimum of 3 km of trekking. Establishing Mr. Rajiv Kumar (RJK), Construction Manager, Package A1, states “this transmission line is composite in nature and can accommodate additional capacities in the near future. Working in undulating terrain with an average elevation of 2200 MSL poses many challenges. Each tower is angled and has differences in body, leg and chimney extensions due to the altitude differences. Survey is one of the toughest activities and is a lengthy one as we have to take into consideration a number of things like right of way and terrain undulation. Major part of the line runs through forest and the remaining passes through orchards and private farms. Resistance from the land owners, convincing them about the right of way and prevention of the seepage of muck during excavation are sensitive issues handled efficiently by the project team. We planned the construction tenure for 28 months against the contractual term of 30 months. Though 13 months have passed without forest 18 Planning logistics support is the key factor for the success of the job. MNA highlights “We discuss the logistics of the job and the modus operandi for achieving progress and show the locals that work is systematic and is beneficial for the state. Activities are reviewed at a micro level on a daily basis and through meticulous implementation of systems and procedures high quality standards are achieved at work front. The project team comprises 47 staff members with the right blend of technical and administrative expertise. Though most of them are new to the project, adept orientation and training in transmission line work methodologies have ensured the creation of new talent pool to suit future such projects.” MNA asserts, “The client reposes great confidence in L&T’s execution capabilities. The decade-old Bhaspa Jhakri line stands as testimony to the quality work executed by L&T. We have completed 100 foundations in 8 months and are on course for completion of the Loop In Loop Out (LILO) by December 2009 and commissioning of the entire line by August 2010.” clearance, we are confident that things will speed up after May 2009.” ECC’s scope of work comprises 4 lakh cum of excavation, 20,000 cum of concreting, 10,000 MT of tower erection, 77 km of stringing and 1 lakh cum of tower protection (revetment). Transportation of materials is another issue which requires constant care and vigil. As the access ways are unchartered paths, proper approaches are to be made for safe head loading. “Sensitive materials such as conductors are to be carefully head loaded to the location. Ropeways are being installed for other materials. Most of right of way progress in this project is a joint exercise with the clients. We visit the remote locations on a daily basis and evaluate the progress.” The project team comprises staff most of whom are new to transmission line project. RJK highlights “Our initial thrust was in training the staff in work technicalities. New staff members are given a 10 day orientation at the site office before being posted at the various locations. These January - March 2009 initiatives have paved the way to create talents to suit such projects.” 2009. As the execution reaches peak activity, ropeway installation has been planned for material movement. With regard to workmen sourcing, RJK says “Retaining workmen and PRW is a tough task due to seasonal demands. Most of the workmen are brought from Bihar and Tibet. Labour colonies at different altitudes have been established with necessary facilities.” Mr. B. Ramprakash (BR), Planning Engineer, Package A1, highlights “This project is a massive manpower driven job; mobilising, keeping focus towards the 175 odd towers (A1 Package alone) and managing such a task force is a big ask. A lot of technicalities are involved in the execution. The first and foremost is understanding the terrain. Prior to start of tower foundation activity, we take contours (hill terrain pattern) of the area for placement of tower and convert the data to 3-D format through “Global Mapper” software. Planning starts by augmenting the contour readings to finalisation of optimum bench cutting conclusions and unequal leg extensions for placing the tower in a safe, reliable and stable position. Most of the technical data is based on millimetre unit basis as accuracy and precision of placing of legs is vital towards erection of towers. Keeping abreast with the survey activities and working in tandem in freezing of towers for the entire line length is an important task. Mr. T.R. Ravichandran (TRR), Construction Manager for Section 1 of Package A1 whose scope of work comprises 33.3 km stretch with 79 towers highlights that the execution and management of this project is totally different in comparison to the towers which people see in plain fields. The most difficult part will be the challenging line crossings across river Sutlej and deep valleys. TRR says “Package A1 has the toughest locations in terms of hill steepness, head loading lead distance and access path through unchartered zones of nature where sightings of wild animals are common; and not to forget the hostile climate, which is a big factor during winter when the temperature dips below zero degree with snowfall all around. In addition to these odds, encountering tribal habitats and scarcity of skilled resources are some of the other major issues against which progress has to be made.” Since it is a high altitude section with very steep slopes, material and resources transportation are done through head loading and mules. Manual loading is the only possibility as approaches for machinery are limited due to the undulating terrain. TRR says “Work will commence in full swing once the right of way is established after the forest clearance. The major quantum of works at A1 package comprises 20,000 cum of concreting, 2 lakh cum of excavation in hard rock.” Mr. P. Muralidharan (PM), Construction Manager, Sub-section 2 at Package A1 is in-charge of 49.2 km comprising 94 towers. PM says “Due to steep gradients we are not able to place our towers on single platforms and have to go in for huge volume of benching. Blasting is another critical activity which has to be done with a lot of planning and care as there is always a possibility of people getting hurt in the lower locations of the hill. Access ways for doing the foundations have to be made as most of the locations are in remote parts of the hills. An average of 2 km head loading has to be made for locations and it involves carrying a minimum of 40 tonnes of tower materials.” Foundation work for 30 towers have been completed, 5 towers have been erected and the remaining works are expected to be completed by June January - March 2009 We have devised a mathematical calculation format (Trapezoidal or Simpson’s formula) which indicates the approximate volume of muck. Based on forecast, a suitable plan is made for disposal or containment of the muck through revetment thereby preventing seepage to the nearby orchards and tower locations.” As the area is susceptible to landslides, logistics planning is never foolproof and requires constant vigil and adaptability. The fabrication process at site is planned to run at pace with the progress and need of work at site on a day to day basis. Fabrication of form boxes and rebars comes with various combinations and so combining such permutations to a single multi-usable format requires planning. Any shortage of materials at the need of the hour at site could spell huge loss of money, time and manpower. Piece rate workmen are provided with the necessary tools and accessories to facilitate the forward thrust of the project. BR says “A well devised strategy is formulated and adapted for cutting of the costs in our site. The smooth execution is attributable to effective planning, coordination and team work.” Mr. Nitesh Arora (NA), Construction Manager for Package A2 comprising line length of 84 km with 182 locations highlights that the main constraint and challenge is in negotiating and convincing the locals 19 as 30% of the line passes through private lands most of which are orchards. NA says, “We have employed around 30% of locals in our project and have groomed them to act as an interface with the local habitat. This initiative helped in creating a positive attitude among the locals and facilitated work progress. The hilly nature of the terrain makes technical feasibility study and sustainability surveys of the tower a time consuming activity. Contouring of the location is followed by formatting the pit mark, ascertaining the lowest level of the contour and leg extension before benching activity is commenced. Most of the material is head loaded with rope ways being planned for some stages. To mechanise the erection and stringing work we are in the process of bringing some low capacity winches. During stringing which is expected to commence by end May ’09 manpower will be close to 5000. Special feature of the execution is control of the leg extensions through calculation thereby adding value to the inventory and avoiding wastage.” Mr. Md. Imtiaz Alam (IAM), Planning Engineer – Package A2, says “There are many aspects to look into in such a project and it is an entirely different experience from the normal plain terrain execution. The exposure and confrontations are unique to this project. Strategic planning assumes critical significance and has a direct bearing on the progress of the job. Cement is directly sent to the locations thereby reducing inventory cost. As the rebar prices are fluctuating, effective planning in placement of orders have helped us in capitalising on market prices. Technical feasibility is one of the key factors for a job of such nature. The contour considerations are taken in grids and the undulated level is reviewed and pit markings done. Based on the forecast, benching is done taking into consideration the leg extensions given by the client. Till date all the 128 benching proposals submitted from our end have been approved by the client. Each of the 182 locations is like a new project demanding creative and innovative approach in all activities. We have to devise ways to reach the unchartered locations and create access ways for transportation. At times there is no clear mandate for certain tasks such as revetment proposals for a breast wall and one needs to learn about the complexities on field.” Mr. Sushil Kumar Singh (SKS), Asst. Accounts Officer, has his hands full in managing the accounting activities across the challenging terrain. With close to 350 locations spread across 300 km in varying altitudes, SKS ensures that multiple requirements such as data compilation, accounting systems and procedures, statutory 20 compliances, reconciliation of sub-contractor bills, bank matter and invoicing are meticulously met with as per schedule. SKS says “Getting all the inputs at the right time requires a great deal of coordination and constant followup. Due to the remote nature of the locations, data compilation is perhaps the biggest challenge. Around 45 sub-contractors are in A2 Package and we have to ensure that their work details are properly updated. Catering to staff and workmen requirements at work front is another issue which requires constant monitoring. Most of the requirements are communicated through mobile phones and we deliver the necessary support as and when required. The project has topped the collection drive in Delhi Region by netting Rs. 28 crore for the last quarter. A good rapport with the client, bureaucracy and various agencies has augured well for the smooth execution of the project.” Mr. Rajendra Kumar Sharma (RKS), Store Keeper, A1&A2 Package, states that the main issue was locating a strategic place for materials stacking. Due to the hilly terrain, it was difficult to find large flat stretches of land. However after a lot of surveying, the team was successful in identifying 4 sections spread across Package A1 & A2. RKS highlights, “Majority of the materials pertain to tower sections whose volume is close to 20,000 MTPA. Comprising three types – DD, DC and DB, each tower has more than 700 members. Segregating, tagging and proper stacking of these materials is critical as they are put together during the tower erections. As most of the materials are head loaded, any discrepancy from the supply side would mean time lag and further delays. Presently 5000 MTPA of reinforcement, 325 km of earth wire, large quantity of hardware fittings, 354 sets of tower materials, 4 lakh insulators and 4000 km of conductors are housed across the 4 stores. Meeting the timely requirements is another tough task as most of the locations are in remote areas. Proper planning in inventory management and supply of materials is the biggest challenge for this job. Each material is thoroughly checked before being supplied to the locations ensuring that all components are included and transported safely.” Mr. Anju John (AJ), Planning Assistant, Package A2 works towards preparing the planning schedules and subcontract bills, educating the piece rate workmen, reviewing and reporting on the quality of works, sales invoicing and system compliance. AJ says “The major challenge lies in training the piece rate workmen, most of whom are locals, periodical interaction with them, controlling their cost and monitoring their work.” January - March 2009 Package A1 Project Team Takes a Welcome Break Picnickers stricking a pose Package A1 project team organised a few sight seeing trips to various destinations in Himachal Pradesh. A group of 20 staff and their families travelled to the hill top at Sahan on January 26, 2009. Travelling through the snowbound hills and the visit to goddess BheemaKali temple turned out be a very adventurous and serene experience. The team under the leadership of Rajiv Kumar trekked to the nearest peak located at an elevation of 2100MSL. Climbing the snowbound hills was a memorable experience. Project Team Assists Primary Schools at Mangargh The project team arranged the distribution of school bags with essential stationery items to students of primary school situated at remote villages. As a beginning schools were identified at five remote villages for distributing school bags with stationeries, building of toilets, medical checkup etc. The project team so far has distributed essential items at two schools in the presence of local panchayat pradhan and officials of Jaypee Powergrid. The overwhelming response from local residents encourages participation in further such activities. January - March 2009 21 Blending of Skills His subsequent assignments included Ranga Nadi Zero Transmission Line in Arunachal Pradesh, Bihar Sub Transmission System job and 400 kV Maithon Ranchi transmission line. GSB cites North-East as one of the toughest terrains to work with. In spite of the odds, GSB was able to achieve substantial milestones in these projects. He was the planning engineer and the last man to move out after the completion and handing over. GSB states “Maithon Ranchi TL was a landmark project in many ways. It was the first TL project to be completed and handed over in the same financial year, certified by an external agency with no compliances for quality and won the quality trophy. The job exceed the ace margins and won appreciation from the client.” Gyanendra Singh Bisht (GSB), Logistics Support Engineer, is a dynamic young man whose acumen in transmission line projects belies his age. Having been with ECC for the last ten years, GSB is considered as key personnel for transmission line projects. Joining as a DET in 1999, GSB’s first posting was the landmark Bhaspa Jhakri TL project. He says “I gained a lot during the initial four years and it gave me a lot of confidence and was the foundation upon which my career was built. Today I have a good grasp on subjects from survey to systems, foundation, erection and I’m versatile enough to handle micro and macro aspects of such projects.” He asserts that his thorough knowledge on survey and civil engineering are his strengths. A blend of the technical and planning skills, GSB is the apt person for logistical support services. GSB nurtures hopes of handling challenging projects independently in the near future. A keen follower of cricket and chess, GSB cherishes a passion for being fit through regular workout at gym. He married Geetha in 2007, a post graduate in Commerce. The couple has an eight month old daughter – Rishita. Savour for Safety Alok Kumar (AK), Senior Safety Engineer, has donned complex and challenging roles in his career spanning close to a decade. AK’s assignments prior to joining ECC have been for the most part in coal mines. A Diploma in Mining from Nagpur University with a Mine Management Competency Certification, AK joined ECC in 2007 at PNTL project, Sundar Nagar in 2007 which was followed by posting at Karcham Wangtoo TL project. AK highlights that blasting is a critical activity in such a hilly terrain. In spite of the guidelines and instructions, the activity is risk prone due to the undulating terrain. He asserts “We ensure adherence to highest safey parameters during the blast as most of the line passes through forest and private farms. Any shortcomings will severely disturb the ecology and pose grave hardship for the inhabitants. This is the only TL project which has got its own explosive license limited to 3 tonnes. The blast is executed in a controlled manner through electronic detonators. Erection is another activity which requires constant vigil and monitoring.” Having clocked 3 million safe 22 man-hours, AK is confident of achieving the objective – over 20 million safe man-hours. Alok Kumar’s family consists of his wife Ranjana and Harshit, his 20 month old son. Ranjana is a post graduate in Chemistry with B.Ed. and was teaching before committing to the family. Alok is fond of books, music and cricket. January - March 2009 Proactive Store Keeper A store is the hub of any project and the men holding fort play a prominent role in catering to the resource demands. Always on the vigil, their roles are multiple and facets colourful as the canopy they hold. One of this clan is Arvind Kumar Singh (AKS), Stores and Administration In-charge for sub-section. Relatively new to L&T, AKS a commerce graduate from Magadh Univiserity, Bihar, joined ECC in 2008 after versatile stints with various industries which involved teaching, accounts and administration, stores handling. His experience stands him in good stead as he has developed all round skills in communication ensuring a good rapport with locals and officials. His first posting was at PNTL project for a three month period following which he was posted at Karcham Wangtoo Transmission Line. He says “It was a difficult task to locate and establish the stores in such a hilly terrain. Fortunately we identified a flat stretch amidst the hills and established two stores at Jeoric and Rampur.” With materials valued around Rs. 25 crores, AKS has his hands full in ensuring the logistics are well streamed to project requirements. He says “team work and able guidance by the seniors make targets achievable and working a wonderful experience.” A sports enthusiast, AKS represented the university in high jump and 100 metre sprint. AKS is married to Sunita and the couple has two children – Aakash, five years old and Aadity, three years old. Apart from work, AKS loves to interact with local habitats and gain insight into their customs and traditions. Empowering Work With experience of close to 22 years, Mahendra Singh Rathour (MSR), is seen as an epitome for accounts and administration at project sites. Being the first reporting staff in most of the projects, MSR always had to organise and streamline things essential for empowering work. He says “it demands a lot of character and strength to set things right.” A 1982 graduate from Allahabad University, MSR joined ECC in 1986 as a commercial assistant in Banaras. His first assignment involved multiple projects – NTPC Rihand, Vindhyachal and Singrouli and UPSEB Anpara Thermal Power. This was followed by subsequent assignments at Kandla Bhatinda pipeline, IOCL Mathura, GAIL Pata, ACC Cement, Agra pipeline, Parliament Library, New Delhi, RPL Jamangar, Water pipeline projects in Mumbai Region, Balasore Road Project in Orissa, NALCO Damanjodi and Panipat flyover. He says “my strength is my ability to learn from the new environment, meet people and build a good rapport which is essential for my job.” The present assignment demands weekly travel of close to 600 km which he accepts with a smile. All along his career he has been pursuing studies and has added quite a handful of diplomas in law, personnel and material management and sociology. MSR family consists of his wife Sudha and two children – daughter Shubi and son Devansh who are studying in the 10th and 7th standard respectively. Sudha, an economics post graduate, is a homemaker and has been a part of MSR travelogue and shares the same fondness for meeting people and seeing places. January - March 2009 23 MEET OUR GMS Man Management & Customer Delight – the mantra to success Mr. T. Azhaguvel, Regional Manager & Cluster Head of MMH&W OC at Kolkata, who has been recently elevated to General Manager, has a saga of over three decades of association with ECC, during which he has achieved path breaking performances in diversified fields, across various geographical regions of our country. After completing a Diploma in Mechanical Engineering in the year 1976, he joined our company in 1977, after a brief stint with Presteels & Fab. (Pvt.) Ltd., Kalpakkam. Any success story anchors on the most invaluable asset – the people; who are in fact the prime movers. He was first posted at FCI Trombay in 1977. Soon he moved into the remote North East for his first major assignment in the Nagaland Pulp & Paper Project from Oct 1977 to 1982. His subsequent assignments include Rourkela Steel Plant, Rashtriya Chemicals & Fertilisers Ltd., Thal Project, Vizag Steel Plant, NALCO Vizag, NALCO Damanjodi, Tata Steel Jamshedpur, Hyundai Job Haldia, Durgapur Steel Plant, Hirmi Cement Plant, Rajender Steel Plant Siltara & Paradip Port Trust. The various projects gave him a plethora of experience in fields of Steel, Cement, Material Handling as well as intensive exposure in site operations. Subsequently he was elevated to become the Regional Project Manager for IP&U Sector, Kolkata Region in 2002, followed by Sector Project Manager in 2004. In the year 2006 he was elevated to head Kolkata Region as the Regional Manager. It would not be out of place to mention that during his tenure at Kolkata Regional Office, the financials registered an unprecedented upward trend and the client base also expanded. A rejuvenated, sustained and zero tolerance approach in the field of Safety & Quality added the crowning glory of success in the Kolkata Region. Several coveted international and national laurels were received in the field of safety. Customers lauded his initiatives which bore fruit at site culminating in excellent rating in customer satisfaction. He strongly believes that any success story anchors on the most invaluable asset – the people; who are in fact the prime movers. At every step during his career, he took it as a personal responsibility to be with his people during times of adversities. During crisis, directing and supporting his team from the front were his trademarks; and the teams were always ready to take on any challenges. It would be appropriate at this stage to mention one of the most unforgettable success stories that was scripted under his leadership during one of nature’s worst adversities – the 1999 Super Cyclone at Paradip. Despite poor forecasting and limited infrastructure, a mammoth cyclone was handled by him and his team with meticulous strategy backed up by selfless courage; safety was the topmost concern and not a single life was lost; staff, workmen and families were all safe. After ensuring the same, he and his team, went on to participate in scavenging and relief operations in and around Paradip. He instituted special teams to deliver basic needs to nearby villagers who had lost almost everything in the aftermath. It was exemplary leadership and hard core team work that made this happen. Mr. Azhaguvel is married to Suja, a homemaker. The Azhaguvels are blessed with a daughter Monisha, who is doing her B.Sc Visual Communication, final year at S.S.S. Jain College, Chennai and has plans to pursue her higher studies. 24 January - March 2009 Be Sincere, Hard Working & Humane – It pays Mr. Shrinath Rao (SR) Head, Infrastructure Business – Gulf, hailing from a family of academicians in Bangalore was brought up in Udaipur, Rajasthan and graduated from VNIT Nagpur, thereby giving him diversity in upbringing. He joined L&T as Graduate Engineer Trainee in 1982 at Awarpur Cement Project Phase I. SR cherishes the rich hands on experience gained in the early years of his career. Four years at Awarpur and he was transferred to Kinabatangan Bridge project in Malaysia. He values his first overseas experience as an eye opener in global benchmarking. After successfully completing the bridge project, he then moved to Mumbai Regional Office in the year 1990. He enjoyed his stint at MBRO to the maximum. He still recalls his first day at the regional office as a very strange experience, as till then for almost eight long years he was only exposed to hard core site execution. He was determined to take maximum advantage of his posting at MBRO and master all facets of this exposure. The stay of almost five years at the office gave him tremendous experience to meet and learn from the stalwarts of L&T and gave him lot of confidence for future responsibilities. He was then involved as a construction head for “Buckley Court” High Rise Residential Tower at Cooperage Mumbai which comprised the restoration of a heritage structure with construction of high end residential tower in the backdrop. The project won an award from American Concrete Institute in addition to few other critical acclaim for the restoration works. The project gave excellent exposure to meet with renowned conservationists. A major assignment then came his way as project in-charge for the construction of Seven Star Grand Hyatt Hotel at Santa Cruz, Mumbai. This green field project was amongst the first few projects where L&T undertook total hotel execution including complete finishes. Since 2003, SR is located at UAE and is currently heading the operations. His endeavour is to expand L&T’s operations in spite of tough environment. He says “the experience of working along with global players is very exciting as well as extremely challenging”. His dream is to make every individual in the team to be at par or much more capable than their international colleagues. He believes in institutionalising this change management which will benefit the individual as well as the organisation. He asserts “the basic qualification for success of an individual, in my belief, is to be sincere, hard working and humane.” The basic qualification for success for an individual, is to be sincere, hardworking and humane. SR gives a lot of credit to whatever little he has achieved to the value system cultivated by his parents. His wife Sridevi supports him to the hilt in all his endeavours and always provides him with valuable advice on all humane values. He respects womenfolk for their perseverance, sacrifices and support. They are blessed with a son, Santosh, who is studying in Class XII. He enjoys listening to classical music which he cultivated while listening to his mother in the younger days. January - March 2009 25 Acumen for Planning & Execution Mr. D. Gnanasekar (DGS), Head – Airports Segment under Buildings & Factories OC, has been at the helm of many significant projects and a part of ECC’s milestones. He says “It has been a tough journey across three decades with many challenges.” Hailing from a small town close to Vellore in Tamil Nadu, DGS, the son of a school headmaster, graduated in Civil Engineering from Madras University in 1977. Joining as a Graduate Engineer Trainee in ECC, DGS worked in various job sites in Southern region in the early phase of his career. With a keen acumen for planning and execution, DGS soon started handling independent assignments and rose to become the youngest resident engineer for L&T AUDCO Maraimalainagar. There is no shortcut to success without hard work. DGS cites the execution of 200 industrial sheds for Tirupur knitwear industry in one year period as a big break for him. He says “this project brought laurels to ECC and helped to exhibit my skills and know my strength.” Over the years, DGS built a repertoire for commanding leadership through task mastering skills which saw him execute some of the most prestigious projects across the country. The project promoters reposed great confidence in his ability to achieve both high quality of work and timely completion. Today, these projects are national landmarks and stand as testimony to his delivering capabilities. Some of the notable assignments executed under his leadership are: Jawaharlal Nehru Football Stadium, Chennai, which was completed in a record time of 260 days; Plutonium Reprocessing Plant at Kalpakkam; HI-TEC City Phase 1, Hyderabad, a first of its kind IT Park for the Government of Andhra Pradesh. In Bangalore, he was the Regional Projects Manager for B&F BU. He says, “it was an important phase for development of new businesses and required a lot of thrust in negotiating tough clients like GE for bagging projects.” The latest project “Hyderabad International Airport Limited” is a landmark project in the history of L&T. The world class airport combining the best of technology and design was inaugurated by the UPA chairperson Mrs. Sonia Gandhi in March, 2008. During his long and eventful career, DGS also executed overseas assignments. In Zernograd Housing project, the erstwhile USSR, the efforts put in by him for rapid mobilisation and setting up of infrastructure facilities within a short time under minus 20° Celsius in a totally unknown environment in 1993, is still a remarkable and memorable performance for those who were involved in the project. DGS recalls that all his assignments were challenging and time bound. He strongly believes, “there is no shortcut to success without hard work”. He attributes his success to his team and gratefully remembers KVR for his warm support and motivation right from the beginning of his career. The star performer is married to Nirmala and blessed with a daughter, who is doing her final year in Biotechnology aiming to become an entrepreneur. 26 January - March 2009 A Touch of Pride for People Mr. M.V. Satish (MVS), Head – Institutional & Commercial Buildings, B&F OC, has spent a large part of his career in overseas assignments. In an eventful innings of close to three decades, MVS has handled interesting assignments and played a crucial role in the development of ECC’s Domestic and International business capabilities particularly in the Middle East. Recalling his 23 years association with ECC, he states “I always believe people are our pride and work is not only about achieving targets but also about building relationships.” A 1979 Civil Engineering graduate, MVS hails from the IT capital of the nation – Bangalore. He joined ECC in 1980 and his first posting was at the monumental Baha’i Temple, Delhi which was followed by one year tenure at Satna Cement. MVS moved to Metco Gammon and worked at Iraq for four years where he was associated with Precast Housing Projects. His subsequent stints were with Hyundai on behalf of International Military Service, Iraq and Tata Electronic Development Services, Bangalore. Having made his mark as an executor, MVS rejoined ECC in 1987 at TISCO, Jamshedpur. He says “I had very good experience in precast technique at Iraq which was instrumental for my posting as resident engineer for Housing Project at TISCO Jamshedpur.” After the successful commissioning of the Housing Project, his next assignment was as resident engineer for TISCO works. He was sent overseas for Housing Project at Zernograd, Russia for two years. His earlier exposure in overseas projects stood him in good stead and was handy in establishing vital links for executing the Russian assignment. In 1996 he moved to BLRO as Regional Project Manager (RPM) for Property Develoment Business unit and later was assigned the role of RPM – Buildings and Factories. After this he took care of Business Development activities up till 2003. MVS says “My tenures were important ones as it was a stage when a lot of thrust was initiated for development of new businesses and breaking new grounds.” Following this, when the zonal concept was introduced in ECC, he was posted as the Zonal Project Manager for Western Zone. His next assignment as the Chief Executive Officer of L&T Oman was the most challenging and a high profile one. He says “We had an excellent team in L&T Oman and with focused approach and proper guidance from the headquarters, built the business to be amongst the top five in Oman. We were the first to have a separate HR Department and a Workmen Training Institute. Today, L&T Oman has completed more than a decade of service and is an established brand name. It gives me immense satisfaction to have been a part of the growth and change which the Company has undergone.” I always believe people are our pride and work is not only about achieving targets but also about building relationships. MVS is married to Vasanti, a Masters in Sociology whom he credits for his success and beautifully managing the home front. Their daughter Svati is pursuing her Masters in Journalism. MVS is very health conscious and is a regular at the gym. The family prides itself on owning a small but well equipped personal library. They are aware of their social responsibility and work towards the betterment of the society in their own way. The Satishes are enthusiastic travellers and look forward to their annual holiday. January - March 2009 27 Seek & Ye Shall Succeed For Mr. R. Chandrasekharan (RCS), Operation Head – Bulk Material Handling Business Unit, MMH&W OC, right attitude, commitment and hard work are work philosophies for excellence. RCS believes that learning is a continuous process in one’s career and plays an instrumental role in moulding one’s career and personality. In a career spanning more than three decades across various domains, RCS has executed milestone projects, held important offices and been a leader who stands for values and ethics. At L&T, learning does not happen only at the work front. It is a continuous process and is a part of the culture of the organisation. A 1974 Diploma holder in Civil Engineering, RCS joined ECC in 1975 at MFL Manali. He cites the 1977 cyclone and floods in 1978 which ravaged Vijayawada canal (APSEB) site as one of the lessons in crisis management. He states “As one of my seniors fell sick, I had to assume the mantle to lead and handle the crisis situation. It was a great experience of getting to learn the knack of taking quick decisions and handle things even during the worst situations.” He looks back on this challenge as a turning point in his career. His next assignment was with Tata Steel for almost a decade, during which he handled projects at West Bokaro, and various modernisation projects at Jamshedpur. He states “Tata is a demanding customer and looks into things other than engineering & construction, which helps in shaping one’s career. In my opinion, every engineer must have a stint with the Tatas early in his career, as this moulds him into a complete person. In my 33 years of service, I was lucky to be associated with challenging projects, demanding seniors and tough customers. It gave me the confidence to look at things beyond project execution and brought out the best qualities in me.” Among his landmark projects, he cites TISCO – West Bokaro, TVNL – Tenughat, Lafarge – Meghalaya and ISPAT – NDIL as the toughest assignments. He recalls his kidnapping episode at Tenughat and the six years at ISPAT – NDIL as memorable missions which gave him valuable insights not only into project execution but also into the role of Project Manager in totality. He credits the organisation for providing opportunities and support to learn and grow. He says “At L&T, learning does not happen only at the work front. It is a continuous process and is a part of the culture of the organisation.” As Regional Manager of ABRO, apart from operations and business development initiatives, his tenure also saw the Surat flood relief operation where L&T demonstrated its commitment towards Corporate Social Responsibility. Unlike project execution, during relief operations there are no specific guidelines and one has to think on one’s own and take spot decisions to cope up with the situation which purely reflects the leadership skills. He proudly states “The appreciation given by people of Surat to L&T-ites has to be seen to be believed.” RCS is married to Jayanthi, a homemaker whom he credits as his source of strength. Mrs. Chandrasekharan is good at music, arts and handicrafts. They are blessed with a son – Vinayakram, an electrical and electronics engineer working with Infosys. RCS has a fondness for classical music. A socially conscious person, RCS along with his family is involved in helping the development of a school and temple in his hometown. 28 January - March 2009 Life is all about Changes Seeking changes and welcoming challenges have always been his nature. A civil engineering graduate from IIT Kharagpur and PGDBM (MBA) from XLRI, Jamshedpur, Dip. K. Sen (DKS), presently heading the Mumbai International Airport Project, moved to frontend execution from hardcore design at a late stage in his career. DKS made his professional debut at the young age of 21 in the design and construction of Transmission Lines. He was posted as in-charge of 132kV transmission line project in Johar Bahru, Malaysia, a job which gave him tremendous confidence. In 1982, he joined the design department of TISCO, Jamshedpur and worked in the prestigious and fast track modernisation Phase-I. Subsequently, he joined M/s. Development Consultants Ltd. in Kolkata where he worked in the design of RCC and Steel work for various power and coal handling projects. During this tenure, he also worked briefly at Nowgong Paper Project, Assam and Patalganga PTA Project in project monitoring, scheduling and reporting disciplines. In 1989, DKS joined the then newly started Civil & Structural Department at the design office of erstwhile Gr-X, L&T. During this tenure from 1989 to 2001, he rose to Head the Civil & Structural Design of EDRC, Kolkata and was associated with the design of coal/ash/material handling projects for Chandrapur, Singhrauli, Dadri, Rayalaseema, Suratgar, Kota, Ramagundum, Shimadri, TNEB, RSMML, Paradip, TISCO etc. of BMH & M&M Division. He gained excellent knowledge in overall engineering of turnkey projects including mechanical and electrical interface and coordination. He says “I was feeling saturated in design engineering and hence decided to make a change to execution.” On his own initiative, he took a transfer to Safal Fruit and Vegetable Auction Market Project, Bangalore. He says “Safal being a complicated design and build project, I could use my strong engineering background to coordinate all disciplines and lead the team from engineering to commissioning and successful completion.” Subsequently, he took charge as SPM (B&F) – Kolkata Region in 2003 and during his tenure major jobs in the North East were bagged through strong networking and important projects like National Games Stadiums and Village in Guwahati, Medical College and Hospitals in Shillong and Agartala were completed. In 2006, DKS moved to Mumbai Region as a Regional Manager. It was during his tenure that the mega Mumbai International Airport Project was bagged and DKS assumed charge as project director in November 2007. Within record time, the mobilisation of infrastructure and resources was completed and currently the job is progressing in full swing. While I have been enjoying my work and the changes all through my career, I made friends everywhere which, along with my technical competence, are my major strengths. DKS is thankful to his wife Suma for giving up her career aspirations to be a homemaker and lend support for all his endeavours. Their only son, Debanik is pursuing mechanical engineering at IIT, Kharagpur. DKS loves to engage in games, adventure activities and is also fond of music, reading and playing chess. He asserts “While I have been enjoying my work and the changes all through my career, I made friends everywhere which, along with my technical competence, are my major strengths.” January - March 2009 29 Enterprising HR Practitioner Mr. Rajeev B. Bhatnagar (RBB), Head – Human Resources, MMH&W OC, is a Human Resource professional with a wealth of experience spanning three decades. He has been exceptional in executing ideas and has been closely associated with most of ECC’s HR initiatives. He says “my greatest strengths are my domain knowledge of human resource and the quiet determination I bring to everything I undertake.” My greatest strengths are my domain knowledge of human resource and the quiet determination I bring to everything I undertake. As his father was a civil engineer constructing dams and canals, RBB had a feel of the projects quite early in his life. He completed his post graduation in Management from BITS Pilani. Prior to joining L&T, RBB had valuable stints in public sector and multinational companies. His first posting in ECC was at Mumbai Region in 1997, following which he was transferred to Chennai to take care of recruitment. He says “I am proud to say that 71% staff working in ECC as on 30th Jun 08 were recruited by P&OD Dept during my tenure as head of talent acquisition, after which I moved over to MMH&W Operating Company.” He has great regard for his superiors and senior management in ECC as they allowed him the fullest freedom which enabled fulfilling the department’s objective to “recruit solely based on merit.” From 2001 onwards, P&OD Department has implemented several salary revisions, reward exercises, FAIR processes in ECC and RBB has played a key role in every one of them. He says “I’m very systematic and my fundamentals are strong. Challenging tasks interest me.” RBB believes that strategic initiatives play a key role in organisation development. He cites the 2004 succession planning as a crucial exercise which identified most of today’s leaders in ECC. He was involved in the exercise from micro planning stage to pre-final presentations. His pet project is the initiation of membership in Institute of Chartered Engineers, UK (ICE, UK), which began after a suggestion by KVR in the Annual P&OD Conference. He says “we have now 85 ECC Engineers as members of ICE, U.K. Since the membership comes after a rigorous selection by teams from UK, it’s an achievement for our engineers as well as a testimony to ECC’s engineering excellence.” He also catalysed formation of Chennai Chapter of ICE, UK. He believes that in coming decades companies with the most talented workforce will be the winners. The two key factors which have made ECC a world class organisation are the OD process and the keen interest line managers have in HR issues. As a service to his profession, RBB has created a web site for HR professionals (http:// hrera.com) which is a reference point for HR professionals since 2002. Apart from professional pursuits, RBB has a keen interest in literature and history. He has created a website for young adults on Panchatantra (http://ePanchatantra.com). For the last 3 years he is developing a site on Thirukural (http://kural.in). He says “If I commence a project I do not abandon it irrespective of difficulties and time involved. My motto is: Winners Never Quit. Quitters Never Win.” After retirement he plans to write on Ancient Indian History and start a micro-finance institution to help economically weaker people. His wife Alka is a post graduate in arts and a homemaker. She partners him in creating their websites and pursuing all interests (except history). They have two sons – Saurabh and Yogendra. Saurabh is a computer engineer and is pursuing his MBA in Hyderabad while the younger son, Yogendra is in class XII and plans to do engineering. 30 January - March 2009 IR & Administration Trendsetter Mr. A. Mohan Das (AMD), Head – Administration and Industrial Relations, is a man of action with a flair for languages. Having been at the helm of affairs for more than 25 years, AMD is seen as an epitome in the field of Administration and Industrial Relations. Ask him which site has been the best or most challenging in his career. He quickly reacts by saying “Every site is unique and one needs to become familiar with the local language, understand the mindset of the people and react depending upon the situation.” His guiding philosophy is “Keep your eyes and ears open. Accept criticism, review and implement systems and procedures without any compromise.” Equipped with Masters Degree in Commerce and Business Management, Bachelor Degree in Law, Post Graduate Diploma in Business Administration, Diplomas in Labour and Administrative Laws, AMD is a blend of theoretical and practical knowledge. He says “Though I joined with Accounts & Administration background, I got to know a lot of engineering concepts due to my involvement at projects.” Joining ECC in 1982 at Kolkata, AMD was posted at NALCO Damanjodi. He says “I was fortunate to handle major and volatile projects throughout my career which was instrumental in shaping my skills.” His subsequent assignments – Bihar Sponge Iron project, Tenughat Thermal Power, Coal Handing Plant at Raniganj, Manipal Pai FoundationHospital & Medical College, Gangtok, gave him valuable insights in learning the nuances of project operations. AMD cites the year 1993 as a big break for him, when he was deputed to Russia for the housing projects. He says “It was a different work zone, extreme climatic conditions and an alien environment demanded adaptability and quick learning in foreign conditions. The project gave me the right exposure in Finance, Accounts and Administration from the overseas point of view.” His next assignment at RPL Jamnagar was the biggest job for ECC at that juncture. AMD handled the entire Accounts and Administration activities for a period of three years. He says “It was a mammoth task with the labour strength alone accounting for more than a lakh.” AMD highlights that it was an invaluable experience in establishing a good rapport with the Reliance top management which has proved beneficial over the years. In 1999, he moved to headquarters as in-charge of Site Accounts and Administration for Domestic Operations. He says “Because of my exposure I could give guidance and support to all job sites.” In 2004, AMD took over the Administration of ECC as a whole. Keep your eyes and ears open. Accept criticism, review and implement changes wherever required. His acumen in handling labour and administrative issues has earned him the title “IR Guru” in industry circles. AMD believes knowledge creates empowered individuals and one needs to nurture their potential. He initiated the task of rewriting and upgrading the Store Keeping, Material Management, Time Keeping & Industrial Relations manuals. His flair for troubleshooting is well known and he is often sought after for valuable suggestions across industry domains. AMD is married to Rita, a homemaker who has done her post graduation in Psychology and Guidance & Counseling and is a practicing counsellor. They have a daughter – Shilpa who has completed dual degree in Hotel Management & Catering and Hospitality Administration and is pursuing her Masters in Business Management. AMD is an avid reader confined mostly to psychology & legal books and loves travelling. January - March 2009 31 PR Seeks ‘a Jack of All’ Trait Believe in what you do, learn to handle the vicissitudes, and give more than 100 percent in all your tasks – these are the hallmarks of success. “Believe in what you do, learn to handle the vicissitudes, and give more than 100 percent in all your tasks” – these are the hallmarks of success says Mr. V.S. Ramana (VSR), Head, Corporate Communications. A 1978 B.Com graduate from the Madras Christian College, Chennai, VSR’s journey in the world of Corporate Communications across three decades has been from a novice to an evolved holistic leader. Recalling his first assignment at the DCM group’s Usha International, VSR says “Usha provided an extensive opportunity and a good training ground for an all-round operations at a multi-product company.” The urge to do a lot and seek further opportunities to perform made him move to an advertising agency – Speer Communications in Delhi. However, he felt he was missing the corporate format and when Ranbaxy, India’s leading and growing pharmaceutical major needed a Corporate Communication thrust, VSR grabbed the opportunity. He says “it was actually the beginning of strategic Corporate Communications work for me. We had to start from the smallest to the most significant agenda.” Four years of mission accomplished, VSR moved on to Cadilla, Ahmedabad. After a two year period, he shifted back to New Delhi to New Holland Tractors, the makers of Ford tractors who were setting up their new manufacturing facility in India. VSR was the fourteenth man lined up in the organisation. He says “it was a different milieu interacting with farmers across India, to create awareness and build a credible entity”. Following this, VSR moved to an IT enabled advertising service – ASL Technologies. A little over a year there, the assignment from L&T-ECC came his way and it was a home-coming for VSR. Nearly eight years now with L&T-ECC, VSR has made significant contributions in enriching the L&T-ECC brand and credibility of the CCD. He cites “I never had a team in all my earlier assignments – and at ECC it was all there to be harnessed. Mr. V. Kannan was a great support who helped me settle fast and get to delivering results. ECC’s 60 year celebrations was a turning point for CCD. Presenting the gargantuan avatar of the organisation in its multifaceted divisions at the HHL Centre, the coffee table book and the road-show events were the most satisfying achievement for me as well as our CCD team. We have come through as a proactive and a reliable team that can engage in business development as well as in brand building by our internal clients. This is both satisfying and rewarding indeed!” VSR is married to Jayashree. Mrs. Jayashree Ramana is currently the Secretary of PRAYAS, and has also been running a Punjabi Restaurant in Egmore, with her brothers. Their only daughter Nishkamya is a throw ball champion and was the first player in Tamil Nadu to be awarded a medical seat at the Coimbatore Medical College, last year. VSR has a diploma in cartooning, is a photographer, paints, sings, blogs and publishes travelogues (www.va-si-ramana.sulekha.com). As the Secretary at the ECC Recreation Club, he has been energising the ECC HQ team. Through his association with the Public Relations Society of India (PRSI) Chennai as its past chairman and an active member, VSR is contributing a lot for the enrichment of PR. His initiatives in promoting PR were aptly recognised when PRSI honoured him with the National Award in December 2008. 32 January - March 2009 The Man Who Has Powered His Way Up Mr. P. Niranjana (PN), General Manager & Head (Operations), Hydel BU, hails from the city of Mangalore situated on the Malabar Coast of South India. Graduating in Civil Engineering (1983) from the prestigious National Institute of Technology, Suratkal, PN started his career as an entrepreneur. His passion towards civil engineering, innate business acumen and motivational and teambuilding skills made him a successful entrepreneur. The early years made him discover a competent leader in himself. Being a continuous and persistent learner, he joined L&T in 1989 to leverage his potential further. He was posted as a senior engineer at the prestigious Kaiga Nuclear Power Project. He specialised in mass concrete construction, erection of heavy engineering structures and sophisticated quality control methods that demand a high degree of precision. After successful completion of this project, he aspired to widen his spectrum of knowledge and gain expertise in diverse domains of the power sector. In 1991, he went on to become the project in-charge for the extremely challenging hydel and irrigation projects situated in the high altitude terrain of the Himalayas in Nepal. The famous Sunsari Morang Headwork Project in Nepal was commissioned by L&T under his leadership. He successfully completed the 46 MW captive power project at Awarpur in Maharashtra. His experience and knowledge in construction project management from procurement to execution helped L&T to bag the 2x540 MW Tarapur Nuclear Power Plant in Maharashtra. He became the youngest project manager when he took over the position at this project. During his tenure of leadership, he implemented novel ideas in construction methods which proved highly productive and cost-efficient. This project fetched him recognition as an expert in the nuclear power sector. PN became the Head (Operations) for Hydel and Nuclear sector in 2004. He became the General Manager and Head (Operations) for Hydel BU of L&T Infrastructure OC in 2008. Some of the projects that are under execution under his leadership includes 2000 MW Nuclear Power Plant at Kudankulam, 2000 MW Lower Subansiri Hydro Electric Power Project in Arunachal Pradesh, 520 MW Parbati Stage III Hydro Electric Project, 520 MW Tapovan Vishnugad Hydro Electric Power Project, 1200 MW Punatsangchu Hydro Electric Project in Bhutan and 100 MW Singoli Bhatwari Hydro Electric Project (L&T’s maiden project on BOOT basis). PN is a dynamic and transformational leader who strongly fosters the culture of innovation, continuous learning and implementation of latest technologies in construction. PN is a dynamic and transformational leader who strongly fosters the culture of innovation, continuous learning and implementation of latest technologies in construction. He has a firm conviction that knowledge should be shared and earned by all and encourages active knowledge sharing among all. He is a voracious reader of multifarious subjects. His wife Shantha is supportive in all his endeavours and engages herself actively in social welfare activities. They are blessed with a son, Shreyas. Apart from being a philosopher, logical thinker and a man of wit, PN lays emphasis on and respects human values. These qualities effortlessly earn him the respect and love of all. January - March 2009 33 SAFETY NEWS Safety Month Celebrations Inaugural function at HQ Campus on January 5, 2009 Every year the month of January is celebrated as a safety month at headquarters, project sites and offices of ECC Division. This year too it was celebrated in a grand and meaningful manner with fullest support and commitment from the management and cooperation from all sections of employees. This occasion was used to re-affirm our commitment to injury-free working at the workplace through awareness and motivation programmes. The month-long activities at our establishments all over India and abroad were intended to enhance employee participation in promoting the cause of safety. To mark BLWSP-SPRI-Jaisalmeer 34 the occasion, various safety promotional activities were conducted throughout the month including: Safety Flag Hoisting and Administration of Safety Pledge; First Aid Training Program; Fire Fighting Demos; Safety Exhibition; Safety Poster Competition; Safety Slogan Competition; Safety Essay Competition; Safety Quiz. The celebrations concluded at the end of January with a valedictory function in which winners of the safety competitions were awarded prizes and certificates. Staff members, workmen, contractors and clients took part in the celebration enthusiastically. EWL Kanchipuram January - March 2009 CSTI Chennai Oath taking at Hyderabad Cluster Office MBCL-7 Oath taking at ICICI3 SMC Estancia SAJEL GLASS Phoenix project Southcity BLCL BWSSB -Valedictory function January - March 2009 BSL Angul VSP – Vizag (First aid Training) 35 HMCPCL Haldia SAIL-ISP Burnpur (Housekeeping rally) Safety Pledge - JSWSL WSS-Tumkur-Valedictory function VSP – Vizag (Fire Drill) DMRC Saket AD HEP Delhi Cluster Office NPCIL-Kudankulam Parbati HEP L&T HEW, Hazira 36 January - March 2009 Emergency Preparedness at HQ Campus In view of the increased risk especially related to emergency situations, our preparedness is of paramount importance, in order to contain the escalation of emergency and mitigate it effectively. Considering this, emergency preparedness at HQ campus was rechecked and major improvements were made including: G G G Formation of Emergency Response Committee and Preparation of Emergency Response Plan. Identification of floor wardens to coordinate emergency response in their floor. Revamping of fire detection and fire fighting systems, emergency communication systems. G G Establishing safe assembly points. Conducting surprise mock drills to evaluate the effectiveness of emergency preparedness. Mock drills were held at AOB building on January 28, 2009 and TCTC Building 1st Floor on December 31, 2008 by simulating a fire emergency. Such drills will enable our staff members to react appropriately in case of a real emergency. Both positive observations and points requiring improvement were noted during the mock drills. Action is being taken to continually improve the situation. L&T Wins Six RoSPA Awards In recognition of its continuous efforts to achieve excellence in the field of Occupational Health and Safety, L&T has won six RoSPA Awards from the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA), UK. ECC’s Bakreswar Thermal Power Plant Project – Bakreswar (BMH – BU); Bisalpur Water Supply Project – Jaipur (WET – BU); Hooghly Met Coke Power & Co. Ltd Project – Haldia (M&M – BU) and DMRC Green Park Project – (Infra OC) have won the Gold Award for 2009 while L&T (Oman) LLC’s SBG Palm Garden Township and Oxy Mukhaizna Water Treatment Project have won the Silver Award. The 2009 RoSPA Awards presentation ceremony will be held on 13th May 2009 in Birmingham (UK). The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) is one of the longest running and most highly respected occupational award programmes. The scheme is open to organisations of all sizes, from the full spectrum of work activities and from all over the world. The prestigious awards recognise and celebrate health and safety achievements, offer the ideal way of showing commitment to raising standards, share good practice and allow benchmarking and provide a prime opportunity for gaining positive publicity January - March 2009 37 Buildings & Factories OC the projects Following are ved which achie RE ION AND MO THREE MILL Man-hours LTI Free Safe L&T Info-city Housing Project, Hyderabad – 19 Million Safe Man-hours, during November 2006 to February 2009. Safety Roll of Honour Cognizant Technology Solutions Project, Congrats Safety Tambaram – 17 Million Engineers! Safe Man-hours, during October 2008 to February 2009. Vizag Vessel Project – 15 Million Safe Man-hours, during May 2006 to January 2009. ICICI Project, Hyderabad – 11 Million Safe Manhours, during September 2008 to March 2009. Honda Siel Cars Project, Bhiwadi – 10 Million Safe Man-hours, during August 2007 to January 2009. Runwal City Centre, Ghatkopar, Mumbai – 10 Million Safe Man-hours, during April 2006 to January 2009. Techno-Park Project, Vadodara – 9 Million Safe Man-hours, during December 2006 to January 2009. Orchard Residency, Ghatkopar, Mumbai – 5 Million Safe Man-hours, during April 2007 to February 2009. Mantri Espana Project, Bangalore – 5 Million Safe Man-hours, during March 2007 to March 2009. South City Project, Bangalore – 4 Million Safe Manhours, during August 2007 to March 2009. Trident Hotel Project, Bangalore – 3 Million Safe Man-hours, during October 2007 to March 2009. Ellora Visitor Centre, Aurangabad – 3 Million Safe Man-hours, during October 2006 to January 2009. New American Consulate Compound, Mumbai – 3 Million Safe Man-hours, during November 2006 to January 2009. Appreciation Certificates ECC’s CTS IT Park Project, Kolkata has been awarded a Certificate of Appreciation for the achievement of 5.5 Million Safe Man-hours during the period April 2007 to January 2009 ECC’s Medical College Project, Agartala has been awarded a Certificate of Appreciation acknowledging the excellent performance in HSE during the period September 2008 to March 2009 38 ECC’s ICICI Project, Hyderabad has been awarded a Certificate of Appreciation for the achievement of 10 Million Safe Manhours during the period September 2008 to March 2009 ECC’s New American Consulate Project – Mumbai has been awarded a Certificate of Appreciation for the achievement of 3 Million Safe Manhours during the period November 2006 to January 2009 January - March 2009 Integrated Management System Certification for B&F Buildings & Factories Operating Company received accreditation for its Integrated Management System (IMS) by qualifying for the following International Standard Certifications. G G G OHSAS 18001: 2007 (Occupational Health & Safety Assessment Series) ISO 14001:2004 (Environmental Management System) Senior team members of B&F OC seen along with the officials from M/s. DNV during the presentation ceremony ISO 9001:2008 (Quality Management System of HSE Function) Mr. D.K.S. Moorthy from M/s. DNV (DET NORSKE VERITAS), the Certification Body, presented the certificates to Mr. S.N. Subrahmanyan (SNS), Executive Vice President & Head – B&F OC on March 6, 2009 during the meeting, which was attended by all Section Heads. SNS acknowledged the efforts of HSE Team in establishing the IMS system and getting it certified in short duration. He also emphasised the need for such recognition. This Management System Certification will add value to the B&F OC businesses by: G G G G Mr. D.K.S. Moorthy, M/s. DNV presenting the certificate to Mr. S. N. Subrahmanyan and Mr. V. Balaji Integrating HSE in all its processes through a risk focused approach Providing external recognition for the systems Improving HSE Standards and Performance to international standards Exhibiting our commitment to stakeholders Incidentally, this is the first of its kind certification in L&T where all the three standards have been certified simultaneously. HSE Orientation Programme for Diploma Engineer Trainees A 4-day orientation programme was conducted for diploma engineer trainees attached to HSE function of B&F OC. The programme was held at our Panvel training centre from 18-21 March, 2009. The programme immensely benefited the participants by giving them the insight in to HSE functions and bringing the inner desire to learn more. The programme was designed in the form of a workshop consisting of games, quizzes and exercises to make the interaction and learning more effective. 32 DETs from all clusters of B&F OC participated and benefited from this programme. Mr. M. Nachiappan, Asst. Manager-HSEB&F was the Faculty coordinator and the faculty included Mr. V. Balaji, Head HSE (B&F), Mr. J.K. Shivaraj, Project Manager (PTB, MIAL), Mr. A.K. Mitra, CHSEM (MIAL), Mr. Hemant T. Kadu, CHSEM (Mumbai Cluster). Participants of the HSE Orientation Programme January - March 2009 39 Metallurgical, Material Handling & Water OC e the projects Following ar ed which achiev MORE D N A ON LI THREE MIL Man-hours fe Sa ee Fr I LT Safety Roll of Honour Bhushan SteelMeramandali Site, Angul – 50 Million Safe Manhours, during July 2007 to February 2009. Sri Sathya Sai Water Supply Scheme (O&M) – Ananthapur – 13 Million Safe Man-hours, during March 2000 to March 2009. Coal Handling plant for NTPC-BARH – 12 Million Safe Man-hours, during August 2006 to February 2009. Bakreswar Thermal Power Plant Project – 11 Million Safe Man-hours, during December 2004 to February 2009. Bisalpur Water Supply Project – Jaipur – 10 Million Safe Man-hours, during July 2006 to March 2009. Vizag Steel Plant Expansion Project – BF No. 3 – 9 Million Safe Man-hours, during June 2008 to March 2009. TATA Steel Project Site – Jamshedpur – 9 Million Safe Man-hours, during March 2008 to February 2009. Hoogly Met Coke Oven Plant Site – Haldia – 8 Million Safe Man-hours, during January 2006 to February 2009. Coal Handling plant for NTPC – Kahalgaon – 7 Million Safe Man-hours, during December 2006 to February 2009. EWL – Kanchipuram Workshop – 6 Million Safe Manhours, during December 2007 to March 2009. SAIL – ISP, Burnpur – 6 Million Safe Man-hours, during October 2007 to February 2009. Dhamra Port Project – 5 Million Safe Man-hours, during April 2007 to February 2009. Vizag Steel Plant Expansion Project – WRM # 2 – 4 Million Safe Man-hours, during April 2007 to March 2009. Alisagar Lift Irrigation Scheme (O&M) – Nizamabad – 4 Million Safe Man-hours, during March 2005 to February 2009. Sri Satya Sai Water Supply Scheme (O&M) – Medak – 4 Million Safe Man-hours, during Septeber 2005 to February 2009. EPC 4 Package for Zinc Smelter, HZL-Dariba – 4 Million Safe Man-hours, during October 2008 to March 2009. Sagardighi Thermal Power Plant Project (PWS) – 4 Million Safe Man-hours, during January 2005 to February 2009. Hindalco Job Site, Hirakud – Orissa – 4 Million Safe Man-hours, during March 2006 to February 2009. Gravity Collection & Sewage system, Puri – 3 Million Safe Man-hours, during November 2005 to February 2009. FeMn, SiMn & Coke oven plant – JSL, Duburi – 3 Million Safe Man-hours, during November 2007 to February 2009. Sri Satya Sai Water Supply Scheme (O&M) – Mehboobnagar – 3 Million Safe Man-hours, during Septeber 2005 to February 2009. State Level Annual Safety Conference at Ahmedabad Gujarat Safety Council in association with Directorate of Industrial Safety & Health organised the 30th State Level Annual Safety Conference with a theme “HSE as a Core Value” during January 23-24, 2009 at Tagore hall, Paldi, Ahmedabad. 800 delegates from various industrial organisations attended the conference. Mr. A.K. Das (Cluster HSE Manager – Ahmedabad) was invited by Gujarat Safety Council to present a paper on “Safety in Construction Industry”. Subsequently, he made a presentation on HSE Management System in Construction Industry, which was well received and appreciated by all the participants. 40 January - March 2009 Appreciation Certificates ECC’s MMH&W OC, has been awarded a Certificate of Appreciation for the achievement ECC’s BkTPP Site, has been of 13 Million Accident-free Safe Man-hours for awarded a Certificate of the period March 2000 to December 2008 Appreciation for the achievement of 10.5 Million Accident-free Safe Man-hours as on March 2008 ECC Division has been awarded a Certificate of Appreciation for the plantation of 500 saplings at Sewage Treatment Plant I & II ECC’s MMH&W OC, has been awarded a Certificate of Appreciation for the achievement of 2 Million Accident-free Safe Man-hours for the period January 2007 to February 2009 ECC has been awarded a Certificate of Appreciation for the achievement of 50 Million Accidentfree Safe Man-hours for the period July 2007 to February 2009 Infrastructure OC Six Laning of Vadodara to Bharuch Section on NH-8 – 18 Million Safe Man-hours, during the period August 2006 to April 2009. Subansiri Lower Hydroelectric Project – 7 Million Safe Man-hours, during the period November 2007 to April 2009. Appreciation Certificate Dhamra Port Project – 7 Million Safe Man-hours, during the period March 2007 to April 2009. BARC-Prefre Civil Works – PH II Project – 5 Million Safe Man-hours, during the period August 2005 to March 2009. e the projects Following ar d which achieve MORE ION AND THREE MILL Man-hours LTI Free Safe Safety Roll of Honour NPCIL-M2-Steam Supply and Auxiliary Systems – 5 Million Safe Man-hours, during the period September 2008 to April 2009. BC-17-Design & Construction of Green Park Station Project – 4 Million Safe Man-hours, during the period April 2007 to February 2009. Kuttiyadi Power Project – 4 Million Safe Man-hours, during the period February 2007 to April 2009. Bhabha Atomic Research Centre Facilities Nuclear Recycle Group Project, Kalpakkam has awarded ECC a Certificate of Appreciation for the achievement of 5 Million Accident-free Safe Man-hours during the period August 2005 to March 2009 January - March 2009 External Access Road to Sawalkot HE Project – 3 Million Safe Man-hours, during the period October 2005 to April 2009. TNRSP-03 Kattumavadi to Ramanathapuram Project – 3 Million Safe Man-hours, during the period August 2007 to December 2008. 41 Electrical & Gulf Projects OC Victory Heights – MRVC2, UAE – 5 Million Safe Man-hours, during September 2008 to January 2009. Rural Electrification Project, West Midnapur Congrats Safety Kolkata – 4 Million Safe Engineers! Man-hours, during December 2005 to January 2009. Station Lighting & Cabling Package No. 3x500 MW NTPC Kahalgaon Stage – II (CEIC6395), Kolkata – 3 Million Safe Man-hours, during October 2005 to January 2009. 33/11kV Primary Substations ALAIN, UAE – 3 Million Safe Man-hours, during January 2007 to January 2009. HVDS & LVDS System for NDPL, New Delhi – 3 Million Safe Man-hours, during April 2004 to February 2009. Dunes (G+B+8 Residential Buildings), Dubai – 2 Million Safe Man-hours, during March 2007 to January 2009. 220 kV Panarsa-Nalagarh Transmission Line – 2 Million Safe Man-hours, during June 2007 to February 2006. 400kV D/C Moga-Bhiwadi Transmission Line, Bhiwani – 2 Million Safe Man-hours, during August 2007 to February 2009. 400kV D/C Karcham Wangtoo-Abdullapur Tansmission Line – 2 Million Safe Man-hours, during January 2008 to February 2009. Moradabad-Roza Railway Electrification – 1 Million Safe Man-hours, during July 2007 to February 2008. Rural Electrification Work in Udhampur District (J&K), DEIC 5546 – 1 Million Safe Man-hours, during April 2007 to February 2008. Rural Electrification Project, Hazaribag-Kolkata – 1 Million Safe Man-hours, during April 2008 to January 2009. 220kV Over Head Transmission Lines From Sweihan Grid station to Ramak and Al Hayer in ALAIN, UAE (N3969) – 1 Million Safe Man-hours, during January 2006 to January 2009. Safety Training Programmes A two-day safety training programme on electrical project was held in Delhi between January 6-7, 2009. Mr. S.K. Chakraborty (Delhi Cluster Head – EI&C) chaired the training programme. 25 participants attended the training programme and Mr. Kumar Shailendra, Mr. A.K. Nathani and Mr. Krishna Kumar were the internal faculty 42 A safety training programme on Emergency Response and Care, First Aid, BLA, CPR was held on February 19, 2009 and February 27, 2009 at Delhi and Chandigarh January - March 2009 Appreciation Certificates ECC’s Marinescape Towers, UAE (A&B), has been awarded a certificate of appreciation for the achievement ECC’s Jumeirah Island Villa, UAE has been awarded a certificate of appreciation for the achievement of 9 Million Lost Time Incident Free Man-hours during the period December 2006 to December 2008 of 7 Million Lost Time Incident Free Man-hours during the period March 2007 to January 2009 Successful Commissioning of MG3 Lube Oil Project L&T received a certificate of appreciation from M/s. Petronas Penapisan (Melakka) SDN. BHD. for outstanding HSE performance and completion of the MG3 Lube Base Oil Project. The plant crossed 100 days of continuous run without any interruption since production of first on-spec product. ECC’s IPP Site, Jharsuguda, has been awarded a certificate of appreciation for their improved safety practices Mr. M.R. Shankar, Executive Vice President, L&T –E&C (second from left) and Mr. Jitendra Singh, Project Control Manager, L&T-ECC (Malaysia) (extreme right) receiving the awards from Mr. Colin wong Hee Huing – MD & CEO, Petronas Penapisan Melaka SDN. BHD. (PPMSB) January - March 2009 43 KALEIDOSCOPE The first week of March 2009 was time for the women employees of ECC HQ to get together for maza, masti and bonhomie. The occasion was Women’s Day – March 7, celebrated as a weeklong festival during March 2-7. Anticipating a huge participation due to the success of last year’s events, the club had made elaborate plans for hosting the event. Close to 600 women employees across departments representing different facets of the campus made this celebration a dazzling display of skills. Over 300 participants consisting of four teams – Twinklers, Startlers, Sparklers and Dazzlers vied for honours in sporting events such as net cricket, tennicoit, chess, carrom, dart and fun games. For the artists there were Rangoli, Antakshari and a cultural fest which brought out the best among the creative minds. Ms. Swarnamalya, Tamil cine The four teams with their house flags actress was the chief guest for the cultural fest. Dr. K. Sundari, Head – Public Relations Department, Stella Maris College, Chennai was the chief guest for the Rangoli competition. The judges were highly impressed with the efforts and skills of the ladies of ECC and complimented the Club for the initiative. The celebrations culminated in a much awaited grand gettogether on March 7, 2009. Gifts were given to all the women employees and prizes were distributed to the winners. Twinklers comprising Vishranthi and CNRO members emerged the overall winners while Startlers representing AOB, Materials and TCTC buildings were the runners-up. The highlight of the week long celebrations was the comradeship and healthy competition backed by a large number of vociferous spectators. Tennicoit Bucket the ball game in progress The art of balancing lemon & spoon ‘Sapattu Ranis’ Net Cricket Brain-teasers Slow motoring Chief guest Dr. K. Sundari with the Rangoli winners Culture and Tradition 46 Skit representing women’s role in India Colourful Rangolis Chief Guest Swarnamalya addressing the gathering Winners all the way Bull’s Eye High Spirited Runners-up A cross-section of the audience January - March 2009 47 There is probably little to equal the feeling of being on centre stage. All of us irrespective of age and skill would have realised the sublime feeling at some point of time in our lives. ECC Recreation Club, HQ, Chennai, made this feeling come alive in mass by providing an opportunity for staff members and families to see and perform at the internationally acclaimed Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium as a part of its Sports Day on March 14, 2009. Constructed by L&T in a record time of 260 days more than a decade ago, the stadium ranks as one of the finest in the subcontinent. Mr. K.V. Rangaswami along with Mr. Walter Devaram hoisting the sports flag Mr. K.V. Rangaswami, President, ECC Recreation Club along with the Chief Guest Mr. Walter Devaram, former DGP of Tamil Nadu, declared the games open. Mr. K.G. Hariharan, former Vice President was the guest of honour. For ECC-ites it was one of the most memorable outings in recent years. True to the Club’s dictum “Professionally Conducted, Fiercely Contested”, the event was international-class befitting the magnificent edifice. Close to 500 participants across age groups comprising kids, youth, men and women, participated in various track and field events. In total there were 52 events which also included fun games. The Club had made arrangements for Sports Development Authority of Tamil Nadu (SDAT) officials to officiate and conduct the events in a professional manner. It was an exhausting but exhilarating day for participants and spectators. A dedicated team of volunteers ensured that nothing fell short and everyone sported a smile. The Club had made meticulous arrangements for a continuous flow of refreshments, snacks and a fulfilling lunch for close to 600 members. The games came to a close with a colourful closing ceremony in the post noon session. As the day moved towards twilight, it was time for a feast of a different kind – a musical bonanza by musician A.V. Ramanan & team. Mrs. Suryakumari Ramakrishna and Mr. D.B. Raju, Executive Vice President, Corporate Infrastructure and Services, were the chief guests of the evening. Guard of honour Mr. Walter Devaram lighting the torch Games declared open Torch bearers Kids in action Mr. B. Ramakrishnan (BR), Vice President, ECCRC, highlighted that ECC has always maintained a high standard in providing a healthy, vibrant social and cultural environment to all members of staff and families. He said “the socio-cultural strength of ECC is instrumental in bagging the WELLMED 2008 award from the management.” With a membership of 100 in the early eighties, the club has slowly but strongly grown over the last 28 years and now has close to 2500 members. BR citied the year 2003 as a significant phase The dedicated team of volunteers who made the games a grand success Participants across age groups taking part in field and track events A.V. Ramanan’s musical bonanza where under the leadership of RBS and TSV, the club formed its motto – “Leisure Pleasure Unlimited” and laid the foundation for proactive sociocultural role. Subsequent office bearers carried forward the baton thereby creating milestones and setting benchmarks for others to emulate. He said “over the recent years, it got better and better, new grounds were broken, wider social interaction, welfare activities and new programmes for staff and families.” BR thanked all the office bearers and Mr. K.V. Rangaswami shares pleasant moments with the veterans supporting teams for the untiring efforts in making today’s event a grand success. Mr. K.V. Rangaswami recalled that the Club Day celebrations were always a pleasant moment as one gets to meet the veterans and share the nostalgia of yesteryears. He went down memory lane and traced the Mrs. Suryakumari Ramakrishna presented the AR scholarship awards to the meritorious students of class X and XII. Following are the recipients of scholarship awards: Class X: Deeksha Jain D/o Mr. Ajay Jain; S.Sriprabha D/o. Mr. K. Srinathan; T. Guruprasad S/o. K. Theagarajan; H. Vidhyaa D/o. A. Hariharan; K. Nikitha Moushmi D/o. M. Kittoor Class XII: Vinodh Karun S/o. K. Vijayakumar; Debdatta Basu D/o. Rina Basu; K. Senthil Kumaran S/o. K. Kannadasan; S.R. Saranya D/o. S.R. Samiappa 50 Deeksha Jain D/o Mr. Ajay Jain – Xth S.Sriprabha D/o. Mr. K. Srinathan – Xth T. Guruprasad S/o. K. Theagarajan – Xth H. Vidhyaa D/o. A. Hariharan – Xth K. Nikitha Moushmi D/o. M. Kittoor – Xth S.R. Saranya D/o. S.R. Samiappa – XIIth January - March 2009 From left to right: Mr. V.S. Ramana, Mrs. Chitra Rangaswami, Mrs. Suryakumari Ramakrishna, Mr. D.B. Raju, Mr. K.V. Rangaswami and Mr. B. Ramakrishnan at the Club Day celebrations humble beginnings of the club in the mid-seventies. In close to three decades of service, the Club has created many landmarks and set new standards. He said “every team is trying to excel the previous year’s achievements. Activities are planned and executed to perfection.” He said it was a great feeling to be present at this international stadium built by L&T 19 years ago. Mr. V.S. Ramana (VSR), Secretary, ECCRC, highlighted the background of the WELLMED 2008 Award. He said Mr. B. Ramakrishnan receiving the WELLMED 2008 Award on behalf of ECC Division from Mr. D.B. Raju it was part of the employee engagement initiative reviewed by the management across ODs. ECC presented its theme “Sporting Tournament” highlighting innovative activities across groups such as ECC Cricket World Cup, Sports for Kids and Spouses, Veteran’s and Women’s Days. ECC was adjudged the best among the ODs for creating the most innovative employee engagement activity. VSR thanked Mr. D.B. Raju for making it to the evening’s function and said that it would be apt to give away the WELLMED Award in the presence of the ECC family. Mr. V.S. Ramana along with the Club’s office bearers Mr. T.V. Swaminathan and Mr. Alexander Benjamin donating the funds raised during the Club Day celebrations to “Little Drops” home Mr. D.B. Raju, highlighted the importance of employee engagement initiatives. He said that employee expectations have undergone great changes and organisations need to cultivate employee bonding through many initiatives. He stressed that Mr. A.M. Naik is particular about cultivating employee bonding which in turn would convert staff into L&T-ites. He said “WELLMED 2008” is the outcome of such an initiative. DBR congratulated the Club for creating an innovative and vibrant environment and said that ECC Recreation Club is a benchmark for other clubs in the company. He presented the trophy to Mr. B. Ramakrishna and Mr. V.S. Ramana. More than 4000 members and their families enjoyed the entertaining evening filled with music followed by a sumptuous dinner. Mr. Alexander Benjamin, DGM Corporate Communications, compered the evening function with apt comments and linked the show that held the audience in thrall throughout. A cross-section of the audience January - March 2009 51 ECC Lions Win Annual Cricket Tournament Vessel Project, ECC Division, jointly with Heavy Engineering Division, organised the second edition of annual cricket tournament 2008-09 as part of the staff recreation activities. The tournament was inaugurated on February 8, 2009 by Mr. S.K. Patnaik (JGM, HED) with the grand finale on March 15, 2009. A total of eleven matches were played between five teams, with three teams from HED (Royals, Strikers and Bulls) and two from ECC (Lions and Tigers). ECC Lions team remained unbeaten in the tournament and ended up lifting the trophy in grand style by beating HED Royals by 3 wickets chasing a target of 175 in the allotted 30 overs. The mementos were given by Mrs. Satinder Randhawa (President, PRERNA) and PRAYAS Trust (Vizag Chapter). After the match, staff along with their families were treated to a sumptuous lunch. Jubilant ECC-Lions with the trophy Kudos to Mr. K. Veeramani Mr. K. Veeramani, presently at China Procurement Office, is well known in ECC for his sporting exploits. Adept in tennis, badminton, KVE is a keen sports enthusiast and General Secretary of the Indian Association, which is headed by The Council General of India, Shanghai, as its Patron and a Board consisting of 5 General Secretaries and a President. It has around 1600 members from the 3000 Indians in Shanghai. The Indian Association conducts annual tournaments in different games for its members. In the badminton tournament, from about 12 teams, Mr. Veeramani has won the doubles event along with Mr. Rakesh Kumar of Beaura Veritas and was also the runner up in the mixed doubles which had nearly 10 teams, despite being one of the oldest participants in the tournament. Mr. K. Veeramani along with the members of the Indian Association in China Mehendi Competition at Parbati Site A Mehendi Competition for all the members of Ladies Club at Parbati Chapter, PRAYAS Trust was organised on February 19, 2009. Prizes were distributed to the winners and the event concluded with a get-together party. 52 January - March 2009 Winter Study Tour for IAS Trainees at HYRO During December 23-24, 2008, a two-day Private Sector Attachment Study Programme for IAS Officer Trainees was organised by Hyderabad Region upon request from Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, Mussoorie. Topics such as HR Policies and Welfare Measures and Public-Private Partnership were covered by Mr. S. Ganguly, Vice President & Head – HR and Mr. R. Sridharan, Vice President – L&T Infocity Limited respectively. Mr. A.K. Chugh, Regional Manager spoke on overview of L&T and its ECC Division. Classroom sessions also covered topics on Total Quality Management, New Trends in Buildings & Factories Construction, L&T’s Contribution to Steel, Infrastructure Sectors (Nuclear, Hydel & Transportation Segments) and on Electrical & Instrumentation by respective Cluster Heads of Hyderabad Region. On the second day, the IAS Officer Trainees visited our various job sites, viz. Hyderabad International Airport Limited, Cyber Towers and ICICI Bank Project. At the end of the Study Tour, the IAS Officer Trainees team thanked L&T for the excellent patronage and the deep insight into the various aspects concerning L&T and its engineering excellence and professionalism. The whole programme was organised by Mr. Ravi Kumar Matta, Cluster HR Manger, B&F OC. Relax Your Mind Through Art of Living For stress relaxation and a peaceful mind, an AOL Part I course was conducted at HITEC 2 site during February 23-28, 2009. About 36 staff members participated in the programme with the classes being conducted at site office from 5.30 p.m to 8.30 p.m on all the days. The first two days were really tough and the classes consisted of vajrasanas and sudharshankriya, the unique technique which helps one to relax and get rid of stress. On the concluding day the classes commenced at 4.30 p.m and was over by 8.30 p.m followed by a sumptous dinner. Many staff members contributed to the dinner by bringing something special from their homes. The staff dedicated themselves wholeheartedly to the programme and one could see them smiling at the end of the session. Ms. Vaishali, Ms. Lalitha and Ms. Anandhi were the teachers who made the class so interesting. L&T-ite at Mumbai Marathon Mr. Balaji Selvaraj, P&M Engineer, MIAL, participated in Mumbai Marathon 2009 held on January 18, 2009. The marathon started at CST, went up to Bandra Reclamation and ended at CST, the total distance covered being 42.195 km. Mr. Balaji Selvaraj covered this distance in five hours and sixteen minutes. Mr. Balaji was conferred with a certificate and a medal. January - March 2009 53 like Table Tennis, Billiards, Boating etc. Mr T. Azhaguvel, Club President and Kolkata Regional Manager graced the occasion along with other senior advisors. Pick-up buses and cars were arranged from different locations in and around the city and headed for the Club to reach there by 9.30 a.m. On arrival, delicious breakfast was served. February 8, 2009 was an unforgettable day for the employees of the Kolkata office. To take a break from the work pressure and to have interaction among the family members, a full day picnic was arranged where the staff members and their families came together at the renowned “Splendour Resort”, the picturesque and green resorts – about 20 kms away from the city with various facilities The next part of the morning was devoted exclusively to outdoor games for children and various events by ladies and gents. There was also arrangement for magic show. Snacks were served in between. After the exhausting games session came the lunch at the Club while musical programme was arranged by a popular DJ. The post-lunch fare included some more fun-filled events. All the winners of the events were awarded prizes. Evening tea and snacks were served and then it was time to pack-up. Needless to say, all the kids were so thrilled that they were reluctant to go back home. We are sure that all the picnickers carried a lot of good feelings, a sense of belonging and sweet memories home, for the days to come. Ms. Saswati Basu 54 July - September 2008 On 25th we left for Coonoor by the famous Toy Train. The journey on a ratchet and pinion track on the mountain ranges beside the deep ravines full of verdant vegetation, gurgling streams and through many hairraising curves, dark tunnels and tea gardens was a visual treat. ECC Recreation Club – Bangalore planned for a welcome break for the year 2009 with a 3-day tour to Ooty, the Scotland of the east. 32 members comprising staff and families left Bangalore on January 23, 2009 for Ooty via Mysore. The dawn of the 24th was amidst the verdant greens of the Queen of Nilgiris. The view of picturesque locations, lush greenery, mountain ranges, valley views, tea gardens were a breathtaking experience. Soon after checking in at Holiday Inn, we proceeded to the lake and the bright sunshine and cool breeze on a motor boat ride was fascinating for the entire group. The next spot was the Dodda Betta, the highest peak in South India at an altitude of 8652 ft above MSL. The view of the entire Blue Mountains with the clouds trying to scrape through the hills was astounding. The visit to the tea factory made us understand the process of tea manufacture. After lunch, it was the famous Botanical Gardens. The greens of the garden with its big trees and the sunset was gorgeous. The tourist spots at Coonoor – Sim’s Park, view of tea gardens, Lamb’s rock, Dolphin’s nose, Sleeping Lady, Catherine falls were splendid. The lunch on the lawns at Taj Coonoor with the scenic view of the hills was memorable. This was followed by shopping at Ooty, with the famous Ooty chocolates, spices and the various flavours of tea powder. The evening was spent at the hotel with various amusement activities around the bonfire which was a great source of entertainment. The Republic Day, January 26 was celebrated by all of us with our families at the hotel where our National flag was hoisted and tributes were paid with the National Anthem in the air. We bid goodbye to the pride of Nilgiris and the great Blue Mountains as we descended to Mettupalayam. Our final stop-over was Black Thunder, the water amusement park which filled the rest of the day with great joy. After the dinner at Coimbatore, we started our journey back to home. We reached safely during the early hours of January 27, 2009. This tour has left us with a deep sense of happiness and fond memories to cherish. Mr. Sunder Thyagarajan 55 ECCRC Partners with ISHA Foundation in Project Green Hands On the evening of April 6, 2009, the eastern side of EDRC building was abuzz with activity of a different kind. The colour and theme for the occasion was “Green is beautiful and let’s keep it that way”. ECC Recreation Club (ECCRC), in association with Isha Foundation launched “Project Green Hands” in the campus. Project Green Hands is an inspiring ecological initiative spearheaded by Isha Foundation to prevent and reverse environmental degradation and enable sustainable living. The project aims to create 10% additional green cover in the state of Tamil Nadu in southern India. The project is a massive effort in community building, encouraging supportive relationships between urban and rural societies, government and industry to shape the course of the world. The event started with a welcome address by Mr. V.S. Ramana (VSR), Secretary, ECC Recreation Club. VSR highlighted the fact that though we come from Mr. K.V. Rangaswami addressing the gathering. Others seen (left to right) are Mr. V.S. Ramana, Mr. R.C. Swamy, Mr. S. Kanappan, Mr. Ashraf and Mr. B. Ramakrishnan Creation of Nursery Bed in HQ Campus The sowing of the 10,000 seedlings and creating a nursery is the first step to initialise project Green Hands in L&T. Mr. K.V. Rangaswami kickstarted the proceedings by planting the first seed. As a part of this initiative, the Club is planning to plant 50,000 saplings in the next 18 months in L&T’s projects in and around Chennai by involving staff and families. Mr. K.V. Rangaswami planting the first set of seeds in the nursery bed 56 suburbs, over the generations we’ve become city bred people and have lost connect with greenery, plants, saplings, and the Earth. To get back, he said that ECC has taken concrete steps to initiate the Green Hands project, in collaboration with the noble institution, Isha Group. He said that the Club will initiate a series of activities and provide a unique opportunity for staff and their families to take part in the nursery formation and sapling planting. He urged all of us to be a part of this noble initiative and contribute our mite towards making a Green World. Mr. Ashraf, Project Green Hands Coordinator, Isha Foundation, implied that a nation needs to have 33% of forest cover for ensuring a healthy environment for the society to flourish. He said, “After independence we had nearly 27% of forest cover with a need for increase by another 10%. However today we have less than 10% of forest. Lack of awareness led to cutting of trees for various purposes thereby resulting in increasing temperatures, pollution January - March 2009 and loss of surface water.” He stated that if this situation continues, then in the next 20 years, nearly 60% percent of land in Tamil Nadu will become desert. The objective of the programme is to increase the green cover by 10% which means planting about 11 crore trees. He acknowledged L&T’s interest in the green concept. “When a reputed organisation like L&T is participating in this initiative, it can serve as an example to other organisations to spread awareness about green concept.” complimenting the Club for this noble initiative, he highlighted that L&T Infotech is actively involved in social activities through Vidiyal (NGO). He pointed out the need for collaboration between various help groups within ECC and L&T Infotech to maximise the service to community. He said reducing wastage and segregating waste is a major issue in today’s disposal systems and asked everybody to do their part in effective waste disposal by reducing, segregating and reusing waste materials. Mr. S. Kanappan, VP & Head – EDRC B&F, highlighted the importance of awareness to create a green environment. He stressed the fact that the buildings are a major contributor of carbon emission across the globe. Green concepts and effective resource utilisation is the need of the hour to preserve and conserve Mother Earth. He said trees play a major role in reducing the carbon emission and sustaining the natural resources. Speaking on HQ’s initiatives, he said ECC is contributing to the Green concept by way of planting more trees in place of ones that are cut down during construction, ensuring effective recycling of waste water for irrigation of the trees and plants in the campus. He said the objective is to at least make all buildings in HQ on par with EDRC’s Green Building Silver Rating. Mr. K.V. Rangaswami, President (Construction), congratulated the Club for undertaking this great initiative and said that it was a perfect occasion for highlighting the green awareness. He emphasised the importance of trees and said that the IIT campus in Chennai is a perfect example of the green initiative. Recalling the early days of the HQ Campus, he said that there was a lot of greenery which subsequently made way for buildings. He appreciated the gesture of presenting saplings to the guest and said that it was a nice practice which could be continued in other gatherings thereby enabling the growth of the green campaign. Mr. R.C. Swamy, VP, L&T Infotech, said “ECC’s HQ campus is priceless, the moment one enters there is a difference due to the serene environment.” He called for preserving and enhancing the green effect. While Mr. B. Ramakrishnan, Secretary, ECCRC, went down memory lane and recalled the late seventies when most of the campus was filled with serene surroundings. He said that the launch of the green campaign is an apt movement for contributing our mite in creating a greener and healthier world. L&T-ites Stage A Stitch in Time Rescue Act On February 13, 2009, staff of the TSL-Kalinganagar site received the shocking news that coaches of Chennaibound Coromandel Express had derailed near Jajpur Road railway station. The project team were the first to reach the area for extending the necessary help to the accident victims. The situation was critical and there was severe chaos as the passengers were desperately trying to find their way out of the derailed coaches in total darkness. Around ten gas cutting sets were immediately pressed into action to cut the mangled bogies under the guidance of Mr. Pinaki Mukherjee. The cutting was a difficult process as it could disturb the stability of bogies. L&T staff and railway engineers worked together to avoid further complications. After struggling for more then 45 minutes, our rescue team managed to evacuate 43 passengers who were stuck inside the four bogies (out of which 23 were critically injured and 3 succumbed to their injuries). All the injured passengers were immediately shifted to the nearby hospital for treatment. The rescue operation continued throughout the night. Above: Rescue operation in progress and on left: the collision of the engines during the accident ECC News thanks the project team, workmen and all those who were associated in this noble act. January - March 2009 57 CSR NEWS Awareness Camps, Blood/Eye Donation Drives at Vizag Vessels Project Vessels Project Site, Visakhapatnam organised a blood donation camp and HIV awareness camp on January 24, 2009 as part of its Safety Month Celebrations. Eye donation pledges were also made. The programme was organised in association with Indian Red Cross Society, Population Services International and Mohsin Eye Bank. The programme was inaugurated by Cmde. (Retd.) M.S. Randhawa – Vice President & Head (Vizag Works of L&THED). The inauguration programme was accompanied by Capt. (Retd.) S.K. Patnaik, JGM, L&T-HED, Mr. A.S. Prabhakar, Project Manager, LTCD and other staff members and Contractor in-charges. A total of 511 units of blood were donated and above 300 personnel pledged to donate their eyes and participated in the HIV awareness camp. Health Awareness Programmes at Charcharwadi Depot An Awareness Programme on HIV/AIDS/STD/Family Planning was conducted for the staff, students and workmen of CSTI Charcharwadi campus during February 25-27, 2009. Prior to the commencement of the programme, a poster exhibition was organised to facilitate understanding of the awareness campaign and enable meaningful participation. Documentary film on HIV/AIDS/ STD/ Family Planning was screened during the three day programme. Around 350 people benefitted from the awareness drive. Vizag Vessels Project Aids CFI School As a part of its CSR initiatives, Vizag Vessels Project, constructed and donated basic amenities to children at CFI School, Sheela Nagar, Visakhapatnam. The CFI School is run by Child Foundation of India for Orphan Children. The amenities were inaugurated by Mr. N. Baskara Raju, Executive Vice President & Head – Infrastructure OC and Mr. M.S. Randhawa, Vice President, L&T HED and Mrs. S. Randhawa, President, PRAYAS – Prerna, Vizag on February 22, 2009. 58 January - March 2009 Eye Camp at ECC HQ ECC Recreation Club, HQ, Chennai, in association with Lawrence and Mayo conducted a free eye-screening programme on February 4, 2009 for the benefit of the staff based at HQ. The highlights of the programme were: A comprehensive eye test by the leader in the industry with nearly 130 years in the field of eye care; Free trial of contact lenses; A 10% discount on placing the order at venue; Expert counselling on vision problems and invaluable eye care tips. Timely Help for Infant at Labour Colony Mrs. Poonam Patel, working under sub-contractor at L&T Facilities Site, Coimbatore, delivered twins (a male and a female) on September 29, 2008, at the labour colony. Sadly, despite proper medical attention, the male baby could not survive. However, doctors found that the female baby was infected and advised hospitalisation. Immediately, Mr. S. Ramamoorthi, Executive – Industrial Relations, made arrangements to admit the baby at G.K.N.M. Hospital in NICU (Newborn baby ICU). After proper medical treatment, the child was discharged on October 10, 2008. Upon the advice of the doctor, arrangement was made at the labour colony for a special light to give the child the required exposure to heat to prevent infection and gain weight. After a month, the child was weighed and found healthy. Mr. S. Ramamoorthi, Executive – Industrial Relations seen with the workman family Health Camp at ICICI Site, Hyderabad A health camp was organised for the workers of ICICI site and their family members on Republic Day – January 26, 2009. The camp, organised in association with Family Planning Association of India, Hyderabad was inaugurated by Mr. A.K. Chugh, Regional Manager, Hyderabad Region. The strong team of doctors led by Dr. Ranga Reddy, M.S., along with 25 volunteers from FPAI were present to conduct the camp enthusiastically. The doctors from FPAI gave lectures to spread awareness among workers regarding AIDS, HIV and other diseases like TB, Malaria, Typhoid and the precautionary measures to be taken. FPAI team examined staff and their families comprising 266 men, 171 women and children. January - March 2009 59 Cancer Awareness Camp PRAYAS NEWS A cancer awareness camp was held at the PRAYAS Medical Centre premises on January 31, 2009. Dr. Sumana Premkumar, MD (Radiation Oncology) at Cancer Institute gave a talk on general awareness about cancer. Dr. Sumana is also the founder of Sakhi – a cancer patients support group. Mrs. Jayashree Ramana, secretary, PRAYAS Trust welcomed the doctor and Mrs. Raji Swaminathan gave a briefing on the necessity for conducting such camps. Dr. Sumana addressing the participants Dr. Sumana explained about cancer symptoms, precautions to be taken for early diagnosis to avoid cancer and the importance of helping patients to overcome the trauma. The camp was attended by about 50 ladies. Cancer being still considered a dreaded disease, the awareness level among the poor is low and PRAYAS plans to hold more such camps at routine intervals to shake off the myth about cancer. PRAYAS team members along with Dr. Sumana Paediatrics Screening Camp Surabhi, Ladies Club, L&T Komatsu Limited, an affiliate of PRAYAS Trust Chennai organised a Paediatrics Screening Camp on January 31, 2009 for the underprivileged children below 15 years of age. The camp was inaugurated by Mr. S.R. Subramanian, Chief Executive, LTK by lighting the ceremonial lamp. Mr. T. Nakatani, Dy. Chief Executive, Mr. T.I. Joseph – Head – Machinery Works, Mr. T.V. Venkatesh – Head (Hydraulics Works), Dr. H.S. Shashidhar – Company Medical Officer and Mr. C. Narasa Reddy, Paediatrician joined SRN in lighting the lamp. All the Unit Heads of LTK attended the inauguration. Sweets were distributed after the inauguration. Mrs. Usha Subramanian, President and Mrs. Bhagavathi Venkatesh, Secretary of the Club along with the lady employees, rendered full support throughout the camp. Dr. Chikka Narasa Reddy, Paediatrician and Assistant Professor at Victoria Hospital and Dr. H.S. Shashidhar, 60 Company Medical Officer, Shushrusha Nursing Home along with his team examined the children and prescribed relevant treatment. They also gave Hepatitis-B vaccine to few children who needed the same. The doctor expressed that almost all children had dental problems. Hence the need for a dental camp was felt and has been planned to be taken up as the next project. The health camp had a very good response. The Club registered 70 patients, out of which 54 were children. The camp concluded with distribution of chocolates, snacks and badam milk to all the children and parents. The participants were immensely thankful for the initiative taken by the Ladies Club in conducting the health camp. Several parents expressed that they had never taken their children to a child specialist (paediatrician) and this camp provided them an opportunity to get expert opinion on their children’s health status. January - March 2009 Obstetrics and Gynaecology camp PRAYAS Trust, Surabhi, Bangalore, organised an Obstetrics and Gynaecology Camp to mark the Women’s Day Celebrations. The camp was conducted at Vidhyodaya, government primary school in Devanahalli Taluk for women and teenage girls. Dr. Anitha and Dr. Aruna along with their team examined the patients with utmost care. Blood tests were also performed on a few patients as per doctors’ advice. 54 women availed of the benefits of the camp. Free lunch was distributed to all. The records of the patients are being maintained by Surabhi for future follow-up. Obstetrics and Gynaecology Camp in progress A Memorable Trip to Mahabalipuram the children in the bus. The children were taken to the Crocodile Park and Shiridi Sai Mandir en route to Mahabalipuram. Before reaching L&T guest house at Mahabalipuram, they also had the opportunity to visit the Five Rathas. The members of PRAYAS Trust along with 19 Bala Mandir children, two caretakers and two staff members of PRAYAS Medical Centre went on a picnic to Mahabalipuram on February 14, 2009. Snacks and caps were distributed to The kids as well as the members enjoyed every bit of the sight-seeing and were happy to be at the guest house by noon where they were given a hearty welcome by Mrs. Mala Ganguly and Mr. J. Ganguly. Lunch was sponsored by ECC at the guest house. A games session was organised by Ms. Anu (daughter of Mrs. Uma Sankaralingam) and all the kids participated enthusiastically. Outdoor games like lemon and spoon race, running race etc. were conducted and prizes were distributed to the winners. Children also displayed their talents through dance, music, story-telling etc. All the children were presented with mementos and it was a memorable trip for both the kids and the members of PRAYAS Trust. Blood Donation Drive by PRAYAS Trust Ahmedabad A blood donation drive was organised by the PRAYAS Trust on March 27, 2009 at Sakar–II, L&T–ECC Division, Ahmedabad. Blood Camp in progress Mr. P. Chandramohan, Regional Manager, ABRO, inaugurating the camp January - March 2009 61 HR NEWS Buildings & Factories OC January Construction Safety at Hyderabad. January 02. Participants: 20; Faculty (Int.): M/s. G.B. Murali, D. Chandra Sekhar, Sudipta Kumar Basu, Umesh Chandra Swain. Optimising FAIR at HQ, Chennai. January 05. Participants: 36; Faculty (Int.): M/s. N. Dharmarajan, C. Jayakumar. Optimising FAIR at HQ, Chennai. January 06. Participants: 33; Faculty (Int.): M/s. N. Dharmarajan, C. Jayakumar. Finishing Works at DIAL. January 0607. Participants: 16; Faculty (Int.): M/s. C.J.A. Davidraj, A. Muthu, G. Sakthivel. Construction Computer Software Programme at Bangalore. January 07-08. Participants: 13; Faculty (Ext.): Mr. Lalu Varghese. Principles of Contracting at HQEDRC, Chennai. January 08. Participants: 22; Faculty (Int.): Mr. T. Sriraman. Life Style Modification & Stress Management at MIAL. January 08. Participants: 21; Faculty (Ext.): Dr. Rajesh Parekh from Mumbai. Finishing Works at DIAL. January 0607. Participants: 16; Faculty (Int.): M/s. A. Muthu, G. Sakthivel. Glazing Works at DIAL. January 08. Participants: 17; Faculty (Int.): Mr. Roopesh Kumar. Supervisory Development Programme at Delhi. January 19-24. Participants: 29; Faculty (Int.): M/s. Surendra Kumar, Baljot Singh Gill, Mohammad Saleem, S. Raghunath, K.P. Sudheesh Kumar, Ashok Kumar Tripathi, R. Shankar Narayanan, Vivek Raizada, Ved Prakash Sharma, C. Vasudev, Ravi Gupta, Ashish S. Lalchandani, Prabhat Kumar, Rakesh Kumar Singh, Rajesh Kumar Srivastava. Executive Development Programme at HQ, Chennai. January 19-29. Participants: 28; Faculty (Int.): M/s. S. Gunasekaran, R. Sridhar, P.K. Viswambharan, C. Niranjana, K. Srinathan, S. Sunmugam, Binaya Bhusan Mishra, C. Jayakumar, T. Srinivasan, P.R. Subramaniyan, Udit Kumar Shrivastava, V. Balaji, P. Jayaprakash, T.K. Prem Kumar, K. Ravichandran, T.T.N. Sudharshan, K. Natarajan, S. Vasudevan, Bikram Keshori Nayak, Prabhat Kumar. Faculty (Ext.): M/s. T. M. Prabakaran from M/s. Personal Power, Aravind Chandhoke from M/s. Phoenix HR Trainers & Consultants Pvt. Ltd. Construction Safety at MIAL. January 19-20. Participants: 26; Faculty (Int.): M/s. S. Narayanan, P. Gopinath, Shivaraj J. Kupasad, A. Dhanapal, Kadu Hemantkumar Tukaram, B. Mukunda Pai, Dharmendra Kumar Kushwaha, Anand Kale, Binu Varghese, Arvind Pathak, Dr. N.J. Palan. Safety In Advanced P&M Operations at Panvel. January 21. Participants: 29; Faculty (Int.): M/s. S. Narayanan, Kadu Hemantkumar Tukaram, D. Manikumar Faculty (Ext.): Mr. Viral Gandhi from Mumbai. Team Building Skills at MIAL. January 22-23. Participants: 20; Faculty (Int.): Mr. C. Jayakumar. Gas Based Fire Suppression System at HQ-EDRC, Chennai. January 22. Participants: 32; Faculty (Int.): Participants of 1st B&F OC Executive Development Programme held during January 19-29, 2009 at HQ, Chennai seen with Mr. S.N. Subrahmanyan, Mr. N. Dharmarajan and faculty 62 January - March 2009 M/s. S. Padmanathan, S. Navin Kumar, S. Raja. from M/s. Ramanathans Effective Public Speaking Institute, Chennai. Finishing Works at HQ, Chennai. January 22-23. Participants: 18; Faculty (Int.): M/s. C.J.A. Davidraj, A. Muthu, G. Sakthivel. Quality Management, QA/QC at Delhi. January 29. Participants: 22; Faculty (Int.): Mr. N. Nirapandian. Construction Safety at Bangalore. January 22-23. Participants: 24; Faculty (Int.): M/s. P. Nagarajan, R. Karthikeyan, Suresh Thomas, Vijay Kumar Singh, S. Sudhakar, B. Khadhar Khan. Safety Trainers Programme at Panvel. January 22-23. Participants: 16; Faculty (Int.): Mr. V. Balaji. Time Management at DIAL. January 23. Participants: 19; Faculty (Int.): Mr. Prabhat Kumar. Concrete Practices at MIAL. January 28-29. Participants: 31; Faculty (Int.): Mr. L.S. Kannan. Finishing Works at Ahmedabad. January 28-29. Participants: 16; Faculty (Int.): M/s. C.J.A. Davidraj, A. Muthu, G. Sakthivel. Effective Presentation Skills at HQ, Chennai. January 29-30. Participants: 25; Faculty (Ext.): Mrs. Meena Ramanathan, Mr. Ravi Ramanathan Construction Methods at MIAL. January 30-31. Participants: 31; Faculty (Int.): M/s. K. Senou, M. Ganesh Babu, Akshaya Kumar Behera. February System Formwork at Panvel. February 03-04. Participants: 22; Faculty (Int.): M/s. Madhav P. Deshpande, B. Murugesan, P. Balakrishna, Suthar Ashwin Dahyalal, Akshaya Kumar Behera, Kumbhar Sanjay Krishna, Kadu Hemantkumar Tukaram. PHE for non-PHE at HQ-EDRC, Chennai. February 06. Participants: 25; Faculty (Int.): Ms. O. Samoundisvary. Structural Training for non-Structural Engineers at HQ-EDRC, Chennai. February 13. Participants: 28; Faculty (Int.): Mr. K. Veerappan. Supervisory Development Programme at Panvel. February 16-21. Partici- pants: 34; Faculty (Int.): M/s. Vivek Ranjan, S. Narayanan, S.S. Borkar, Madhav P. Deshpande, P. Balakrishna, Palwinder Singh, A.D. Suthar , R.V. Honavarkar, S.K. Jha, P.D. More, Akshaya K. Behera, K. Mahesh, G. Ramakrishnan, Kadu Hemantkumar Tukaram. Faculty (Ext.): Dr. (Mrs.) Aruna Tijare from Excellence Trainers, Mumbai, Ms. Viniti Agrawal from Mumbai. Systematic Plant Maintenance at Hyderabad. February 16-17. Participants: 18; Faculty (Int.): M/s. D. Chandra Sekhar, Jay Prakash Navik, K. Karthikeyan. Effective Communication Skills at Surat. February 18-19. Participants: 19; Faculty (Ext.): Dr. (Mrs.) Aruna Tijare from Excellence Trainers, Mumbai. CONQUAS Training at MIAL. February 18-19. Participants: 21; Faculty (Int.): Mr. T. Srinivasan. Team Building Skills at HQ, Chennai. February 20-21. Participants: 21; Faculty (Int.): Mr. C. Jayakumar. Introduction to MEP Services at Mumbai. February 20-21. Participants: 15; Faculty (Int.): M/s. A.J. Purusho- Participants of Job Cost Report Programme held during February 23-25, 2009 at HQ, Chennai seen with Mr. N. Dharmarajan, Mr. Kingsley J.D. Ernest and faculty January - March 2009 63 Participants of Supervisory Development Programme held at Hyderabad during March 16-21, 2009 seen with Mr. T. Krishna and faculty thaman, J. Hariharan, N. Kesavan, S. Thanikaivel, R. Umesh Krishnan. M/s. C.J.A. Davidraj, A. Muthu, G. Sakthivel. Finishing Works at Bangalore. February 20-21. Participants: 30; Faculty (Int.): M/s. C.J.A. Davidraj, A. Muthu, G. Sakthivel, Ashish Bhuvan. Time Management at Mumbai. February 27. Participants: 33; Faculty (Ext.): Dr. (Mrs.) Aruna Tijare from Excellence Trainers, Mumbai. Job Cost Report (JCR) at HQ, Chennai. February 23-25. Participants: 30; Faculty (Int.): M/s. S. Selvakumar, K. Srinathan, T.G. Sekar, P. Sakthivel, P. Sridhar, S. Narasimman, R. Ramu. Induction Programme for New Joinees at Mumbai. February 24-25. Participants: 25; Faculty (Int.): M/s. Vivek Ranjan, Madhav P. Deshpande, P. Balakrishna, Akshaya Kumar Behera, Kumbhar Sanjay Krishna, K. Mahesh, Kadu Hemantkumar Tukaram, G. Vishnuvardhan. Construction Methods & Planning at HQ-EDRC, Chennai. February 25. Participants: 25; Faculty (Int.) M/s. M. Ganesh Babu, S. Madhu Anand. Introduction to MEP Services at Hyderabad. February 26-27, 2009. Participants: 15; Faculty (Int.) M/s. G. Sridhar, J. Somasundara Murty, S. Thanikaivel, C. Perumal. Quality Management, QA/QC at Delhi. February 26-27. Participants: 19; Faculty (Int.): Mr. T. Srinivasan. Finishing Works at Kolkata. February 26-27. Participants: 15; Faculty (Int.): 64 March Effective Presentation Skills at Mumbai. March 03-04. Participants: 17; Faculty (Ext.): Mr. Kartik Vyas from M/s. Potentials Unlimited, Mumbai. Electrical Maintenance for Mechanical Engineers at Chennai. March 06-07. Participants: 19; Faculty (Int.): M/s. P.K. Viswambharan, T.N. Karunakaran, D. Gururaj from L&T EBG; Faculty (Ext.): Mr. Balaji from M/s. Schwing Stetter, Mr. Vikas Chug from M/s. Potain, Mr. Satish from L&T Eutectic, Mr. V. Raju and Mr. S. Arivarasal from M/s. Bosch, Mr. E. Umakanth & Ms. Renuka from M/s. Cummins. Know Your Equipment at Hyderabad. March 09. Participants: 18; Faculty (Int.): M/s. G.V. Rao, D. Chandra Sekhar. Concrete Practices at Bangalore. March 11-12. Participants: 21; Faculty (Int.): Mr. G. Ganeshan. Planning Techniques using Primavera at DIAL. March 13-14. Participants: 14; Faculty (Int.): Mr. Ashish S. Lalachandani. HVAC Training for non-HVAC Engineers at HQ-EDRC, Chennai. March 13. Participants: 24; Faculty (Int.): Mr. L. Rajesh Kumar. Supervisory Development Programme at Hyderabad. March 16-21. Participants: 26; Faculty (Int.): M/s. G. Venkob Rao, C. Jayakumar, T. Krishna, Guntupalli Naga Ramanuja, Ranjan Sengupta, Ms. T.S. Kowsalya, M/s. Venkata Srinivas Gullapal, Kishor Ankush Chalke, Choubal Gautam Shashikant, Ilapakurty S.R. Chandrarao, Prabhat Kumar, Jagannathan Ramesh, Kumud Kumar Jha. Electrical Maintenance Training for Mechanical Engineers at Hyderabad. March 16. Participants: 14; Faculty (Int.): M/s. D. Chandra Sekhar, M. Pandian, Kumud Kumar Jha, Rajeeva Kumar Agnihotari. Know Your Equipment at Chennai. March 16-17. Participants: 17; Faculty (Int.): M/s. N. Karunakaran, L.A. Ranganathan, M. Ganesh Babu, P.S. Kumar from L&T CASE. Faculty (Ext.): Mr. T.S. Chandrashekhar from M/s. TSC, Mr. Amol Badgujar and Mr. S. Gajjalakonda from M/s. Potain, Mr. Srikant from M/s. Putsmeister, Mr. Srinivas from M/s. Schwing Stetter, Mr. S. Arivarasan from January - March 2009 Participants of Vendor Management & Negotiation Programme at HQ, Chennai on March 27, 2009 seen with Mr. S.N. Subrahmanyan and faculty M/s. Bosch, Mr. S.P. Balan from M/s. Leika, Mr. Sushant Saha from M/s. AlimakHek. Safety Orientation Programme at MIAL. March 18-21. Participants: 31; Faculty (Int.): M/s. V. Balaji, Shivaraj J Kupasad, Anup Kumar Mitra, Kadu Hemantkumar Tukaram, M. Nachiappan. Workshop on Treatment Plant at HQ, Chennai. March 21. Participants: 22; Faculty (Int.): Ms. O. Samoundisvary, Mr. J. Hariharan, Ms. V.S. Jayasree, Mr. S. Ravi Shankar. Finishing Works at DIAL. March 24-25. Participants: 23; Faculty (Int.): M/s. C.J.A. Davidraj, G. Sakthivel. Vendor Management & Negotiation at HQ, Chennai. March 27. Participants: 17; Faculty (Ext.): Mr. R.V. Ramakrishnan from IIMM, Chennai. Water Proofing Techniques at DIAL. March. Participants: 16; Faculty (Ext.): Mr. Nizamuddin from M/s. Fosroc, Mr. Nathak from M/s. Laticrite. Appreciation Programme on Tunnel Formwork at Chennai. March 30-31. Participants: 18; Faculty (Int.): M/s. T. Jagannath, B. Murugesan, L.S. Kannan. Steel Connections at HQ, EDRCChennai. March 31. Participants: 25; Faculty (Int.): Mr. K. Veerappan. Metallurgical, Material Handling and Water OC January Safety in Construction Industry during at KKRO. January 5-6. Participants: 21; Faculty (Int): Mr. Rabindranath Tripathy from Kolkata, Mr. Indranil Chakraborty, Mr. Sanjoy Sarkar, Mr. Sujit Saha, Mr. S.K. Karimulla S. Khadari, Mr. C.R.S Prasad. Internal Auditors Training Programme at Chennai Cluster Office. January 78. Participants: 21; Faculty (Int): Mr. S. Sundaram from HQ, Chennai. Heavy Lift Transportation at HQ, Chennai. January 8-9. Participants: 18; Faculty (Ext): Mr. Richard Leonard January - March 2009 Participants of Internal Auditors Training Programme held at Chennai Cluster Office during January 7-8, 2009 seen with faculty Mr. S. Sundaram from HQ, Chennai. 65 Faculty (Int): Mr. Rabindranath Tripathy from Kolkata. Faculty (Ext): Mr. Apurba Kumar Chattopadhyay from Kolkata. Construction Planning & Control Systems at Hyderabad. February 2-3. Participants: 25; Faculty Co-ordinator: Mr. A. Sampath from Chennai Cluster. P&M Safety at KKRO. February 4. Participants: 19; Faculty Co-ordinator: Mr. Indranil Chakraborty from Kolkata. Participants of Optimising FAIR Training Programme held at Ahmedabad on January 13, 2009 seen with Mr. P. Chandramohan – Regional Manager, Ahmedabad and faculty Krabbendam from Krabbendam Advies Service, Netherlands. Optimising FAIR at Ahmedabad. January 13. Participants: 21; Faculty (Int): Mr. Mani Sankar Chakraborty from EDRC – MMH&W & Mr. Sabyasachi Sarkar from HQ, Chennai. Orientation Programmes for New Joinee at New Delhi. January 16. Participants: 21; Faculty Co-ordinator: Mr. Mohd Ariz Urfi from Delhi. CeMa & EIP at Hyderabad Cluster Office. January 19-20. Participants: 28 Faculty Co-ordinator: Mr. J. Ramesh from Hyderabad. Orientation Programmes for New Joinee at Jamshedpur. January 22. Participants: 20; Faculty Co-ordinator: Ms. Bandana Khanna from Kolkata. Slipform Management at BSSL Angul Jobsite, Kolkata. Participants: 35. January 22-23. Faculty Co-ordinator: Mr. Sushil Kumar Dubey from Kolkata. Participants: 15; Faculty (Int): Mr. Rabindranath Tripathy from Kolkata. Faculty (Ext): Mr. Apurba Kumar Chattopadhyay from Kolkata. Safety in Construction Industry at Chennai Cluster Office. January 30. Participants: 11; Faculty (Int): Mr. Rabindranath Tripathy from Kolkata. Faculty (Ext): Mr. Apurba Kumar Chattopadhyay from Kolkata. Safety in Construction Industry at BL-RO. January 31. Participants: 6; Faculty (Int): Mr. Rabindranath Tripathy from Kolkata. Faculty (Ext): Mr. Apurba Kumar Chattopadhyay from Kolkata. February Safety in Construction Industry at Vizag. February 2. Participants: 17; Safety in Construction Industry at EDRC (Kolkata). February 4-5. Participants: 15; Faculty (Int): Mr. Rabindranath Tripathy from Kolkata. Faculty (Ext): Mr. Apurba Kumar Chattopadhyay from Kolkata. Safety in Construction Industry at KKRO. February 6. Participants: 7; Faculty (Int): Mr. Rabindranath Tripathy from Kolkata. Faculty (Ext): Mr. Apurba Kumar Chattopadhyay from Kolkata. Safety in Construction Industry at KKRO. February 7. Participants: 12; Faculty (Int): Mr. Rabindranath Tripathy from Kolkata. Faculty (Ext): Mr. Apurba Kumar Chattopadhyay from Kolkata. Safety in Construction Industry at BSSL Angul Jobsite, Orissa. February 10. Participants: 10; Faculty (Int): Mr. Rabindranath Tripathy from Kolkata. Faculty (Ext): Mr. Apurba Kumar Chattopadhyay from Kolkata. Safety in Construction Industry at Safety in Construction Industry at Ahmedabad. January 27. Participants: 23; Faculty (Int): Mr. Rabindranath Tripathy from Kolkata. Faculty (Ext): Mr. Apurba Kumar Chattopadhyay from Kolkata. Welding & NDT Techniques at Jamshedpur. January 28-29. Participants: 19; Faculty Co-ordinator: Mr. S. Sundaram from HQ, Chennai. Safety in Construction Industry at Chennai Cluster Office. January 29. 66 Participants of In-house Training Programme on Construction Planning & Control Systems held at Hyderabad during February 2-3, 2009 seen with Mr. K. Masilamani – Cluster Head (MMH&W), Hyderabad Cluster and faculty January - March 2009 Jamshedpur. February 12. Participants: 11; Faculty (Int): Mr. Rabindranath Tripathy from Kolkata. Faculty (Ext): Mr. Apurba Kumar Chattopadhyay from Kolkata. Safety in P&M Operation for HSE Personnel at Jamshedpur. February 14. Participants: 18; Faculty Co-ordinator: Mr. Asish Kumar Sinha from Jamshedpur. Leadership & Motivation at Kolkata. February 18-19. Participants: 22; Faculty (Int): Mr. T.K. Prem Kumar from HQ, Chennai. Orientation Programme for New Joinee at Chennai Cluster Office. February 18-19. Participants: 17; Faculty Co-ordinator: Mr. Amber H. Nanavaty from CN-RO. Safety in Construction Industry at New Delhi. February 18-19. Participants: 21; Faculty Co-ordinator: Mr. Ajaya Kumar Das from AB-RO. Fabrication Techniques at KKRO. February 24-25. Participants: 21; Faculty Co-ordinator: Mr. T. Kumaresan from Kolkata. In-house QA/QC Civil Training Programme at Concrete Test and Training Centre – Chennai. February 25 – March 7. Participants: 9; Faculty (Int): Mr. L.S. Kannan. Participants of In-house Training Programme on Leadership & Motivation held at Kolkata during February 18-19, 2009 seen with Mr. T. Azhaguvel – Cluster Head (MMH&W), Kolkata Cluster and faculty March Orientation Programmes for New Joinee at KKRO. March 3-4. Participants: 20; Faculty Co-ordinator: Mr. G. Dasgupta from Kolkata. Formwork Training Programme for Civil Engineers at HZL Dariba Project Site. March 4. Participants: 12; Faculty Co-ordinator: Mr. Sushil Kumar Dubey from Kolkata. Know Your Machines at Kolkata. March 6-7. Participants: 19; Faculty Co-ordinator: Mr. M. Govindasamy from HQ – Chennai. Rigging Methods at BSSL Angul Jobsite, Orissa. March 16-17. Partici- pants: 17; Faculty Co-ordinator: Mr. A. Dhanasekar from Kolkata. Construction Planning & Control Systems at Chennai Cluster Office. March 18-19. Participants: 23; Faculty Co-ordinator: Mr. A. Sampath from Chennai Cluster. Safety in P&M Operation for HSE Personnel at HZL Dariba Project Site, Ahmedabad. March 20. Participants: 22; Faculty Co-ordinator: Mr. Utpal Ghosh from Ahmedabad. Safety in Construction Industry at Bokaro Jobsite. March 20-21. Participants: 25; Faculty Co-ordinator: Mr. Ajay Kumar Poddar from Jamshedpur. Electrical & Gulf Projects OC January Safety in Tower Erection at Delhi. January 6-7. Participants: 25; Faculty (Int): M/s. Kumar Shailendra, Krishna Kumar, Ajayakumar Nathani. Supervisory Development Programme at Pune. January 19-24. Participants: 25; Faculty (Int.): M/s. Vivek Ranjan, S.K. Jha, P. Balakrishna (Ext.): M/s. Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Pune. Participants of the Supervisory Development Programme held at SIBM Campus, Pune during January 19-24, 2009 seen with Mr. M. Ramesh Mohan and faculty January - March 2009 67 Participants of the Supervisory Development Programme held at XIMB Campus, Bhubaneshwar during February 23-28, 2009 seen with Mr. S. Ganguly and faculty Safety Training at Sharjah. January 27. Participants: 26; Faculty (Ext.): Kamarajan – GM Safety – ETA, Rajam Krishnamoorthy – HSE Manager – Turner, V. Kannan – HSE Manager –Real Estate Dubai World Centre. CEMA & EIP at Kolkata. January 27. Participants: 22; Faculty (Int.): Mr. Sugata Chaudhury. CEMA & EIP at Kolkata. January 28. Participants: 15; Faculty (Int.): M/s. Sugata Chaudhury, S. Asokan, Sujoy Panda. Quality Management at Jaipur. January 30-31. Participants: 18; Faculty (Int.): Mr. V. Sreenivasulu. Safety Training at Sharjah. January 31. Participants: 23; Faculty (Int): M/s. P.V. Kaliappan, V. Dasaradan, C. Ramaiah, B. Srinivasan, P. Krishnaraj. February Executive Development Programme at MDC Lonavala. February 9-18. Participants: 25; Faculty (Ext.): M/s. Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Pune. Induction for New Joinees at Sharjah. February 12. Participants: 16; Faculty (Int): M/s. Shripad Hegde, Ajayababu, D. Vijayakumar, P.V. Kaliappan, A. Ramesh, V. Dasaradan, S. Rajagopal, Kyle Dominic. Concepts of Protective Relays at HQChennai. February 12-13. Participants: 25; Faculty (Int.): M/s. Angelson Rajeshkumar, K.K. Jembu Kailas, V. Selvaraj, Sudarshan Reddy, R.M. Ayyappan, M. Tamilvannan, S. Kameshwaran, S. Sankaravel, P. Avanthika Satheesh, Mudigonda Nagarajeshwar, C. Sai Prakash, Nataraj. Participants of the Supervisory Development Programme held at IIT-Madras, Chennai during February 16-21, 2009 seen with Mr. S. Ganguly and faculty 68 January - March 2009 Supervisory Development Programme at Chennai. February 16-21. Participants: 25; Faculty (Int.): M/s. K. Venkatasubbu, Sugata Chaudhury, V. Sreenivasulu. Faculty (Ext.): M/s. Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Technology – Madras, Chennai. Training on Emergency Response and Care at Delhi. February 19. Participants: 30; Faculty (Ext.): National Safety Council (U.S.A). CEMA & EIP at Ahmedabad. February 20. Participants: 20; Faculty (Int.): Mr. Sugata Chaudhury. CEMA & EIP at Ahmedabad. February 21. Participants: 27; Faculty (Int.): Mr. Sugata Chaudhury. Contracts Management at Sharjah. February 21-22. Participants: 21 Faculty (Int): M/s. Femi Alofe, C. Ravishankar, V. Anand. Supervisory Development Programme at Bhubaneswar. February 23-28. Participants: 25; Faculty (Int.): M/s. Saswati Basu, R.N. Tripathy, S.B. Vaidya, S. Asokan (Ext.): M/s. Xavier’s Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar. March CEMA & EIP at RPL Jamnagar. March 18-20. Participants: 31; Faculty (Int.): Mr. Sugata Chaudhury Core Development Programme – A Transformation With the formation of Operating Companies, E&GP OC felt the need to give more thrust to the two core development programmes viz Executive Development Programme (EDP) and Supervisory Development Programme (SDP). In order to align the course content with its strategic business needs and to add conceptual input, we associated with three premier educational institutions in India namely Indian Institute of TechnologyMadras (IITM), Symbiosis Institute of Business Management (SIBM) and Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar (XIMB) to conduct these programmes. SIBM had a one-to-one meeting with the senior executives of the OC and a cross section of the staff members to understand our requirement and modified the course content for the EDP. Similarly a committee was formed within E&GP OC to study and suitably modify the content of the Supervisory Development Programme. The committee proposed certain changes in the existing content of the programme and the same was accepted. With the modified programme schedule the first EDP of E&GP OC was conducted at our Management Development Centre, Lonavala, in the month of December 2008 and the first SDP was conducted in the premises of SIBM at Pune in the month of January 2009. The venue of the EDP is our MDC Lonavala and those of SDPs are the premises of the respective institute, the ambience of which enhances the learning process. IITM caters to the needs of staff in Chennai, Hyderabad & Bangalore Regions where as XIMB covers the staff in Kolkata Region and SIBM contributes to Mumbai, Ahmedabad and Delhi regions, with respect to the SDP. This transformation was well received and enhanced the interest and enthusiasm of participants. Participants of the Executive Development Programme at held MDC – Lonavala during February 9-18, 2009 seen with Mr. S. Ganguly and faculty January - March 2009 69 Infrastructure OC January Govindarajan, K. Sreedharan, P.K. Khare, M.B. Ranjith. Concrete Technology at Faridabad. January 9. Participants: 21; Faculty (Int.): M/s. D.K. Sharma, P.K. Yadav. Faculty (Ext.): Prof. M.S. Shetty. Lifestyle Modification and Stress Management at Ahmedabad. January 20. Participants: 21; Faculty (Ext.): Dr. Rajesh Parekh from Mumbai. Deep Excavation & Temporary Support Structures at HQ – Chennai. January 9. Participants: 15; Faculty (Int.): M/s. K.S. Rama Krishna, J. Jesudoss Asirvatham, J. Jeyson Samuel, M. Kumaran, S.H. Shetty. Stone Crushing Technology at Ahmedabad. January 21-22. Participants: 19; Faculty (Int.): M/s. Peeyush Vajpei, Hariharan, K. Anantaraman, V. Srinivasan, Jagnesg Dave, N.K. Palai, R. Venkataraman, V. Nagendran. Optimising FAIR at HQ – Chennai. January 16. Participants: 21; Faculty (Int.): M/s. T.K. Prem Kumar, Yogesh. G. Nair. Self Development (Series 1) at New Delhi. January 19-20. Participants: 21; Faculty (Ext): Mr. M.B.S. Sastry, Human Potential Development Centre. Safety in Construction Industry at Kudamkulam Site. January 19-20. Participants: 12; Faculty (Int.): M/s. S. Chockalingam, S.C. Damodaran, T. N. Praju, Andrews, Thirumurugan, Lawrence, S. Sathyanarayana, R. MS Project & Scheduling at Faridabad. January 22-23. Participants: 17; Faculty (Int.): M/s. Pradeep Khare, Shamim Ahmad, S. Pandari. CeMa & EIP at Delhi. January 28-29. Participants: 18; Faculty(Int.): M/s. Obaidur Rahman, R.K Sahoo, V.V. Sivaprakas, K. Srinathan. February Supervisory Development Programme at Delhi. February 2-7. Participants: 24; Faculty (Int.): M/s. D.D. Khot, M. V.S. Rao, S. Nagarajan, Sumir Dhar, M. Ramamoorthy, G. Shettar, R.K. Saini, Vyom Sahu, Davinder Singh, Obaidur Rehman, D.N. Singh, G.G. Pai; Faculty (Ext): Brig. Atray, Anil Singh Bisht. Safety In Construction at Singoli Bhatwari Site. February 10-11. Participants: 25; Faculty(Int.): M/s. Dharmendra Kumar Singh, M.K. Garnayak, D.N. Singh, S. Elangovan, Harvant Singh Tidwal, R.K. Gupta, Chirag Kumar Sabalpara, Subhek Kumar Das. Dam Engineering at Faridabad; February 16. Participants: 11; Faculty (Int.): M/s. P.K. Yadav, Amar Pal Singh; Faculty (Ext.): Dr. D.V. Thareja, Dr. Rajbal Singh. Life Style Modification & Stress Management at New Delhi. Ferbruary 18. Participants: 22; Faculty (Ext.): Dr. Rajesh Parekh. Programme on Optimising Fair at New Delhi. February 21. Participants: 12; Faculty (Int.): M/s. S.K. Bhalla, T.K. Prem Kumar. Participants of Supervisory Development Programme held at New Delhi during February 2-7, 2009 seen with Mr. Rajan Malhotra and faculty 70 January - March 2009 Participants of the Self Development (Series I) programme held at New Delhi on January 19-20, seen with faculty Working Capital Management at Faridabad. February 24. Participants: 21; Faculty (Int): M/s. V.S. Raju, S. Nagarajan. Induction Programme for New Joinees at Delhi; February 26-27. Participants: 18; Faculty (Int.): M/s. Pradeep Khare, Sanjeev Gupta, G. Shettar, Parashuram, R.K. Saini, V.K. Upadhyay. Concrete Technology & Formwork at ??? February 27-28. Participants: 22; Faculty (Int.): M/s. K.G. Nagaraj. March Internal Auditor’s Training Programme On EMS & OHSAS at Faridabad. March 5- 7. Participants: 25; Faculty (Ext.): Mr. Murali Venkatakrishnan from M/s. DNV. Internal Auditor’s Training Programme on OHSAS & EMS at Faridabad. March 9-11. Participants: 25; Faculty (Ext.): Mr. Murali Venkatakrishnan from M/s. DNV. Internal Auditors Training Programme at HQ – Chennai. March 12-13. Participants: 20; Faculty (Int.): M/s. K.P. Sreehari, K.G. Nagaraj, K. Eswara Rao. BHS at Delhi. March 13. Participants: 10; Faculty (Ext.): M/s. K. Gokul, N. Desai. Concepts of Pre-casting at Delhi. March 26. Participants: 21; Faculty (Int.): M/s. K. Senthilnathan, V. Sadasivam. Faculty (Ext.): M/s. B. Sanjeev Kumar, Ganesh from L&T Ramboll. Divisional Corporate January Effective Communication Skills at HQ – Chennai. January 7. Participants: 24; Faculty (Int): T.K. Prem Kumar. Time Management at HQ – Chennai. January 12. Participants: 24; Faculty (Int): T.K. Prem Kumar. Time Management at HQ – Chennai. January 29; Participants: 26; Faculty (Int): T.K. Prem Kumar. CSTI – Training The Trainers at Panvel. January 27 – February 5. Participants: 24; Faculty (Int): M. Kalyanasundaram, V. Sathayaseelan, J. Raguraman, Hemant Kadu; Faculty (Ext): Prof Sandeep Sinha. January - March 2009 Participants of the Effective Communication Skills Programme held at HQ – Chennai on January 7, 2009 seen with Mr. B. Ramakrishnan and faculty 71 February Quality of Work Life at HQ – Chennai. February 12; Participants: 26; Faculty (Int); T.K. Prem Kumar. Training the Trainers at CSTI – Delhi. February 16-26. Participants: 15; Faculty (Int): Nagender Kumar, Amar Nath, Arun Kumar Tirpathi, Piyush Kumar Upreti, Des Raj Dhiman, G. Shetter, M. Kalyanasundaram; Faculty (Ext.) Ram Sarup Bahra, Brig. V.K. Atray. Participants of the Quality of Work Life Programme held at HQ – Chennai on February 12, 2009 seen with Mr. B. Ramakrishnan and faculty Participants of the Leadership and Motivation Programme held at HQ – Chennai during 26-27 February seen with Mr. S. Ganguly and faculty Leadership and Motivation at HQ – Chennai. February 26-27; Participants: 22; Faculty (Int): T.K. Prem Kumar. March Effective Presentation Skills at HQ – Chennai. March 11-12; Participants: 14; Faculty (Int): T.K. Prem Kumar. E-Mail Etiquettes at HQ – Chennai. March 31; Participants: 27; Faculty (Int): T.K. Prem Kumar. Participants of the Effective Presentation Skills Programme held at HQ – Chennai during March 11-12 seen with Mr. K. Jawahar and faculty 72 January - March 2009 Seminar on “Heavy Lift Transport & Lifting” Participants of the seminar on “Heavy Lift Transport & Lifting” A two day seminar on “Heavy Lift Transport & Lifting” was organised for the benefit of Heavy Lift Engineers across all Operating Companies at the Convention Centre, Chennai, during January 8-9, 2009. There were 51 participants from Business Units who were involved in various heavy erection needs and maintenance of heavy lift equipment. The expert faculty Mr. Richard L. Krabbendam of Jumbo Shipping & Heavy Transport Company from Netherlands, is a world renowned Global Heavy Lift Specialist, who was associated with some of the most interesting operations ever carried out in history. His experience and association with Van Seumeran – a Dutch Heavy Lifting company – added more flavour to the programme. individual participant who attended the programme, and certificates of their independent assessments were e-mailed to them later. The participants gained an insight on the global practices and lessons learnt in the past in this field, which gave them the benefit of ‘upfront knowledge’ which can be used in most of the current job sites at present. During the programme, Mr. Richard explained with the aid of case studies the need for appropriate application of common sense and presence of mind for the safe execution of the Heavy Lifts. At the end of the programme, a test was conducted to evaluate the learning of every Mr. K.P. Raghavan, EVP (Corporate Centre), in his keynote address shared his early experiences in Heavy Lifts in this country, when there was little or no sophistication in the industry – about 30 years ago and how much sophistication and modern equipment have been developed now for safer and speedier execution. Mr. N. Srinivasan, Head (Plant & Machinery), in his introductory note stressed upon the importance of this programme and the benefits it will bring, to widen the knowledge base of the organisation. Training the Trainers Programme at CSTI, Panvel In-house Training Programme on Training the Trainers was conducted at the CSTI Panvel New Setup between January 27 and February 9, 2009. 9 Instructors and 15 demonstrators from Ahmedabad, Hyderabad, Bangalore & Mumbai regions participated in the training programme. Mr. J. Raguraman, Asst. Manager Skills Training, was the Faculty coordinator. Mr. Kalyanasundaram, Consultant and Mr. V. Sathyaseelan, Consultant were the faculty members for the programme January - March 2009 73 STAFF NEWS Buildings & Factories OC New Joiners Ramesh N, Engineering Manager (Elect), CN-EDRC, Head Qrts. Satyanarayana V, Manager (Civil), HY-KCP Cement Plant, Jaggayapet Ghan Sandeep Mangal, Engineering Manager (Geotech), Mumbai Intl. Airport Promotions (M1-A & above ) Cion KP, Segment Head (MEP), CN-Head Qrs. Sthaladipti Saha, Chief Engineering Manager (Civil), CN-EDRC, Head Qrts. Veeramani S, Chief Engineering Manager (Civil), CN-EDRC, Head Qrts. Sriraman T, Deputy General Manager (Civil), CN-Head Qrs. Ravichandran K, Head-ISD (B&F OC), CN-Head Qrs. Senou K, Head-CMPC, CN-Head Qrs. Murali R, Construction Manager (Civil), CN-Head Qrs. Sivakumar N, Construction Manager (Civil), CN-Head Qrs. Ashok Kumar S, Manager (Civil), CN-Head Qrs. Damodharan S, Engineering Manager (Civil), CN-EDRC, Head Qrts. Desigan AGV, Engineering Manager (Civil), CN-EDRC, Head Qrts. Krishnamoorthy S, Principal Architect, CN-EDRC, Head Qrts. 74 Madavan M, Construction Manager (Civil), CN-Head Qrs. Prabakaran S, Manager (Civil), CN-Head Qrs. Rathinavel S, Engineering Manager (Civil), CN-EDRC, Head Qrts. Roopesh Kumar S, Manager (Civil), CN-Head Qrs. Sakthi Murugan JR, Principal Architect, CN-EDRC, Head Qrts. Sukesan T, Manager (Civil), CN-Head Qrs. Umesh Krishnan R, Manager-HVAC, CN-Head Qrs. Anand S, Asst.Manager (Elec), CN-Head Qrs. Aravind R, Asst.Manager (Mech), CN-Head Qrs. John Sandeep R, Asst.Engineering Manager (Civil), CN-EDRC, Head Qrts. Kiruthika R, Asst. Engineering Manager (Civil), CN-EDRC, Head Qrts. Kousalya K, Asst. Engineering Manager (Civil), CN-EDRC, Head Qrts. Lavanya M, Asst. Engineering Manager (Civil), CN-EDRC, Head Qrts. Madane G, Asst. Engineering Manager (Civil), CN-EDRC, Head Qrts. Mathangi SU, Asst.Engineering Manager (Civil), CN-Head Qrs. Mohanraj K, Asst. Manager (Mech), CN-Head Qrs. Navinkumar S, Asst. Engineering Manager (Mech), CN-EDRC, Head Qrts. Palanisamy C, Asst. Engineering Manager (Elec), CN-EDRC, Head Qrts. Rajkumar M, Sr. Architect, CN-EDRC, Head Qrts. Sambasivarao Nannapaneni, Asst.Engineering Manager (Civil), CN-EDRC, Head Qrts. Sandeep M, Asst. Engineering Manager (Civil), CN-EDRC, Head Qrts. Sudha PR, Sr. Architect, CN-EDRC, Head Qrts. Varadharajan N, Asst.Engineering Manager (Mech), CN-EDRC, Head Qrts. Vijayanand I, Asst. Engineering Manager (Elec), CN-EDRC, Head Qrts. Natarajan VK, Project Manager, CN-South City Proj-Siruseri Perumal E, Project Manager, CN- Tcs Techno Park Ph -II Subramanian VR, Project Manager, CN-L&T Facility Ph-II,Kovai Anne Sriramkumar, Manager-HVAC, CN-TCS, Sipcot IT Siruseri Balaganesan G, Construction Manager, CN-LTC Grand Chola Hotels, Chennai Muthaiyan K, Construction Manager (Civil), CN-L&T, TC-III, Chennai Sankarraj S, Construction Manager, CN-CTS Ph II, MEPZ, Tambaram Shanmugam TV, Construction Manager, CN-L&T, Estancia Residential Janarthanan L, Construction Manager (Civil), CN-LTC Grand Chola Hotels, Chennai Paranthaman M, Construction Manager (Mech), CN-CTS Ph II, MEPZ, Tambaram Sumanth G, Construction Manager (Civil), CN-L&T Techpark-II, Sign.Tower Suresh G, Manager (Civil), CN-South City Proj-Siruseri Veerapandian SK, Construction Manager (Civil), CN-CTS Ph II, MEPZ, Tambaram Muthukumaran P, Manager (Civil), CN-R O Ravi K, Construction Manager (Civil), CN-CTS Ph II, MEPZ, Tambaram Ravi R, Manager (Civil), CN-L&T-IT-SEZ Estancia, Chennai Ravi SM, Manager (HSE), CN-L&T-IT-SEZ Estancia, Chennai Velnarayanan M, Construction Manager (Civil), CN-LTC Grand Chola Hotels, Chennai Arrunahchalam K, Construction Manager (Civil), CN-TCS, Sipcot IT Siruseri Gandeeban K, Construction Manager (Civil), CN-L&T, Estancia Residential Kaliyan S, Construction Manager (Civil), CN-TCS, Sipcot IT Siruseri Magesh M, Construction Manager (Civil), CN- Tcs Techno Park Ph -II Mahantesh Rewadi, Construction Manager (Civil), CN- TCS Piling Ph II Rajan RC, Construction Manager (Civil), CN-TCS, Sipcot IT Siruseri Subramanian N, Construction Manager (Civil), CN-South City Proj-Siruseri Vijayaraghavan T, Construction Manager (Civil), CN-South City Proj-Siruseri Balaji S, Asst.Construction Manager (Civil), CN-LTC Grand Chola Hotels, Chennai Balamurugan E, Asst. Construction Manager (Civil), CN-L&T Facility MIPD January - March 2009 74 Chitraguptha S, Asst. Construction Manager (Elec), CN-South City ProjSiruseri Lawrence A, Asst. Construction Manager (Mech), CN-LTC Grand Chola Hotels, Chennai Manivannan G, Asst. Manager (Civil), CN-L&T,TC-III,Chennai Nitin Shenoy M, Asst.Construction Manager (Civil), CN-Jipmer Hospital, Pondy Rajasekar C, Asst.Manager (P&M), CN-L&T,TC-III, Chennai Madhav P Deshpande, Chief Representative, MB-Oberoi Splendour Rajendra Kumar Jain, Project Manager, MB- TC-2 Kulkarni M J, Manager (Civil), Bombay Dyeing, Parel Sunil Purushottam Kolhe, Construction Manager (Civil), MB-Godrej Coliseum Phase III Iqbal Kasim Rahimatpure, Manager (P&M), MB-Runwal Town Centre Nandy Amitava, Manager (P&M), MB-Oberoi Splendour Naresh Kumar Sharma, Construction Manager (Civil), MB-L&T EBG FCY, Ahmednagar Suraj M, Construction Manager (Mech), MB-Nesco Devendra Kumar, Asst. Manager (P&M), MB-Godrej Coliseum Phase III Jadhav Vijay Vinayak, Asst. Construction Manager (Mech), MB- TC-2 Kumbhar Sanjay Krishna, Asst. Manager (Civil), MB-R O Samir Roy, Construction Manager (Mech), KK-CTS Bibhas Chandra Das, Construction Manager (Civil), KK-CTS Subrata Ganguly, Construction Manager (Civil), KK-Godrej Waterside - IT Park Sudip Mukherjee, Construction Manager (Civil), KK-Godrej Waterside IT Park Surajit Bhattacharya, Construction Manager (Civil), KK-CTS Indrajit Sengupta, Asst. Manager (HSE), KK-Godrej Waterside IT Park Indrojit Sarkar, Asst. Construction Manager (Civil), KK-Godrej Simoco IT Park Manoj Kumar Saha, Asst. Construction Manager (Civil), KK-Godrej Waterside IT Park Rajib Kumar Chowdhury, Asst. Construction Manager (Civil), KK-R O Sagar Vasant Waghmare, Asst. Construction Manager (Civil), KK-CTS Subhasish Dutta, Asst. Construction Manager (Civil), KK-Agartala Arun Kumar Singh, Project Manager, DL-Honda Siel Bhiwadi, Ph-II Arun Kumar Sharma, Construction Manager (Civil), DL-DEC Faridabad Arvind Kumar Kushwaha, Construction Manager (Civil), DL-Honda Siel Bhiwadi, Ph-II Harihar Chauhan, Construction Manager (Civil), DL-CSTI Building At Dadri Pradeepta Das, Manager (Marketing), DL-R O Ramjee, Manager (Civil), DL-Khalsa Finishing Work Debabrata Sarkar, Construction Manager (Mech), DL-Honda Siel Bhiwadi, Ph-II Devendra Nema, Construction Manager (Civil), DL-Khalsa Finishing Work January - March 2009 Kameshwar PD Pandit, Construction Manager (Mech), DL-Honda SIEL Bhiwadi Madhavan P, Construction Manager (Civil), DL-Mahi Cement Plant, Banswara Senthil Kumar D, Construction Manager (Civil), DL-ITC Baddi Swatantrakumar Jain, Construction Manager (Civil), DL-Jindal University, Sonepat Abid Hussain Siddique, Asst.Construction Manager (Civil), DL-Honda Siel Bhiwadi, Ph-II Arbind Kumar Langhay, Asst.Construction Manager (Civil), DL-Jindal University, Sonepat Biju Raj, Asst.Manager-Fire Fighting, DL-Jindal University, Sonepat Satyam Khattak, Asst.Construction Manager (Civil), Delhi Airport-Terminal 2 Works Subbramaniyan C, Deputy General Manager (Civil), O-Srilanka Sreekumar A, Project Manager (Civil), BL- LTC Nitesh Long Island Nagarajan P, Manager (HSE), BL-R O Sankaranarayanan K, Construction Manager, BL-Trident Hotel-BIAL Ravikumar MS, Construction Manager (Civil), BL-BIAL Ph II Ravula Veerabhadra Rao, Construction Manager (Civil), BL- LTC Nitesh Long Island Yegappan V, Manager-QA & QC, BL - Mantri Espana Jayaprakash TK, Manager (Accounts), BL-BIAL Ph II Karthikeyan R, Manager (HSE), BL- GE Phase V Meharban Singh Bisht, Construction Manager (Civil), BL-Trident Hotel-BIAL Prashanth MK, Engineering Manager (Civil), BL-R O Ramesh B, Manager (Mech), BL-R O Ramesh M, Construction Manager (Civil), Blue Dart Aviation Ltd Shanmugasundaram T, Engineering Manager (Civil), BL-R O Suresh Thomas, Manager (HSE), BL-Trident Hotel-BIAL Thiagarajan SVR, Engineering Manager (Civil), BL-R O Balaji G, Asst.Construction Manager (Civil), BL-Trident Hotel-BIAL Ravichandiran R, Asst.Manager (Civil)-Fire Protection, BL - D-Block Cluster Saurabh Shrirup, Cluster Project Manager, AB-R O Subal Kishor Sahu, Manager (P&M), AB-SAGL,Glass Plant,Jhagadia Achintya Kumar Mondal, Construction Manager (Civil), AB-Hew, Hazira Athalye Sameer Arvind, Construction Manager (Civil), AB-Hew, Hazira Chandrasekar R, Cluster Accounts & Admn. Manager, AB-L&T, Tech. Park, Baroda Ranjeet Kumar, Manager (Mech), AB-R O Anjay Kumar Pathak, Asst.Construction Manager (Civil), AB-L&T, Tech. Park, Baroda Natarajan R, Asst.Construction Manager (Mech), AB-Hew, Hazira Sanjeev Kumar Thakur, Asst.Construction Manager (Civil), AB-L&T, Tech. Park, Baroda Jaikumar L, Manager - FW Prodn. (Metal & Steel), L&T Formwork, Pondy 75 Ganapathy Subramanian S, Manager (Administration), L&T Formwork, Pondy Meyyappan P, Manager (Mech), L&T Formwork, Pondy Nagesh V, Cluster Project Manager, HY-R O Chandrasekaran N, Deputy General Manager-Accounts & Admin., HY-Intellicity, Hyderabad Adivi Vsss Kiran, Construction Manager (Civil), HY-Infocity Housing Proj,HYD Baraneetharan R, Construction Manager, HY-Zuari Cement, Yerraguntla Bhaskara Reddy C, Construction Manager (Civil), HY-KCP Cement Plant,Jaggayapet Muthukumaran MA, Manager (Mech), HYUltratech Cement, Tadepatri Pardhasarathy M, Manager (Civil), HY-Intl. Airport, Hyderabad Ragothaman S, Construction Manager, HY-Zuari Cement, Yerraguntla Chandra Sekhar D, Manager (P&M), HY - ICICI Project John Edward Raj S, Manager, HY-Visakha Cement Proj, Tandur Peer Mohamed J, Construction Manager (Civil), HY-Ultratech Cement, Tadepatri Pandian M, Manager (P&M), HY-IT Park, Vijayawada Prabhala Srivallinath, Manager (Accounts & Admn), HY-Ultratech Cement, Tadepatri Raveendranatha Reddy M, Manager (Civil), HY-Ultratech Cement, Tadepatri Suresh K, Construction Manager (Mech), HY-Vizag Vessel, Project 76 Chandrasekhar AG, Construction Manager (Civil), HY-Intl.Airport, Hyderabad Hariharan N, Construction Manager (Civil), HY-Zuari Cement, Yerraguntla Ilapakurty SR Chandrarao, Cluster Accounts & Admn. Manager, HY-R O Jay Prakash Navik, Manager (P&M), HY-Ultratech Cement, Tadepatri Mittapalle Nandakumar, Construction Manager (Mech), HY-Vizag Vessel,Project Mohamed Rafi KA, Construction Manager (Civil), HY-Infotech Enterprises, Hyd. Mrityunjoy Samanta, Manager (Accounts), HY-KCP Cement Plant,Jaggayapet Pamarti Ravi Sankara Rao, Construction Manager (Civil), HY-Infocity Housing Proj,HYD Rangu Prasanna Rao, Construction Manager (Civil), HY-Infocity Housing Proj,HYD Sivanthilingam M, Construction Manager (Civil), HY - ICICI Project Thirumalai Bharathi AC, Construction Manager (Civil), HY-Intl. Airport, Hyderabad Venkata Suresh Kumar Bhyri, Construction Manager (Civil), HY-Zuari Cement, Yerraguntla Anandan R, Asst.Manager (Stores), HY-Vizag Vessel, Project Baiju D, Asst.Construction Manager (Civil), HY - ICICI Project Chandrasekharareddy Avutu, Asst. Construction Manager (Civil), HY-KCP Cement Plant, Jaggayapet Elumalai K, Asst.Construction Manager (Mech), HY-Vizag Vessel, Project Karuturi Satyanarayana, Asst. Manager (Mech), HY-Phoenix, Hyderabad Kavuru Timothy, Asst.Construction Manager (Civil), HY-IT Park, Vijayawada Kumud Kumar Jha, Asst.Manager (HSE), HY-R O Manikandan K, Asst.Construction Manager (Civil), HY-BH Golf Course, Hyderabad Mohan S, Asst.Construction Manager (Mech), HY - ICICI Project Rajeeva Kumar Agnihotari, Asst.Manager (P&M), HY - ICICI Project Shaik Nawaz Shareef, Asst.Construction Manager (Civil), HY-Phoenix, Hyderabad Shivananda Swamy, Asst.Construction Manager (Civil), HY - ICICI Project Sridar P, Asst.Construction Manager (Civil), HY - ICICI Project Thirupathi Reddy K, Asst.Construction Manager (Civil), HY-Microsoft India, Hyderabad Voolla Gouri Prasad Rao, Asst. Manager (Accounts), HY-PBEL City, Hyderabad Raj Kumar Verma, Deputy General Manager (Mech), Delhi Intl. Airport Sharat Sharma, Project Manager (Elec), Delhi Intl. Airport Shankar Narayanan R, DGM (Civil) - Planning, Delhi Intl. Airport Sukumaran A, Deputy General Manager (Formworks), Delhi Intl. Airport Subramanian S, Manager (Civil), Delhi Intl. Airport Surendra Kumar, Cluster HR Manager, Delhi Intl. Airport Anand Pratap Singh, Construction Manager (Civil), Delhi Intl. Airport Dinesh Kumar, Construction Manager (Civil), Delhi Intl. Airport Dinesh Singh, Construction Manager (Civil), Delhi Intl. Airport Hegde PG, Construction Manager (Civil), Delhi Intl. Airport Mukesh Goel, Construction Manager (Civil), Delhi Intl. Airport Vasudev C, Manager (Administration), Delhi Intl. Airport Jayanta Ghosh, Construction Manager (Civil), Delhi Intl. Airport Subhash Chand, Engineering Manager (Elec), Delhi Intl. Airport Amit Kumar, Construction Manager (Mech), Delhi Intl. Airport Ashish S Lalchandani, Construction Manager (Civil), Delhi Intl. Airport Devender Nayyar, Construction Manager (Civil), Delhi Intl. Airport Kapil Dev Gaur, Construction Manager (Civil), Delhi Intl. Airport Arvind Kumar, Asst. Construction Manager (Civil), Delhi Intl. Airport Chandrasekhar Y, Asst. Manager-QA & QC, Delhi Intl. Airport Debadyuty Mitra, Asst. Manager (Civil), Delhi Intl. Airport Gyanesh Kumar, Asst. Engineering Manager (Civil), Delhi Intl. Airport Jeykumar K, Asst. Engineering Manager (Civil), Delhi Intl. Airport Kajal De, Asst.Construction Manager (Civil), Delhi Intl. Airport Kalyan Chakraborty, Asst. Construction Manager (Civil), Delhi Intl. Airport January - March 2009 Kona Sree Ramachandra Ramesh, Asst. Manager (Civil), Delhi Intl. Airport Rajagopal K, Asst. Construction Manager (Civil), Delhi Intl. Airport Ravisuthakhar CS, Asst. Construction Manager (Elec), Delhi Intl. Airport Saravanakumar G, Asst. Construction Manager (Civil), Delhi Intl. Airport Somasundaram J, Asst. Construction Manager (Civil), Delhi Intl. Airport Sumit Gupta, Asst. Construction Manager (Civil), Delhi Intl. Airport Venkatesh M, Asst. Engineering Manager (Civil), Delhi Intl. Airport Vikas Mattoo, Asst. Construction Manager (Civil), Delhi Intl. Airport Sundaram V, Cluster Plant Manager, Mumbai Intl. Airport Elangovan A, Chief Architect, EDRC (B&F), Powai Verender Kumar Sobti, Regional Materials Manager, Mumbai Intl. Airport Johar G, Chief Engineering Manager (Civil), EDRC (B&F), Powai Raju B S, Project Manager, Mumbai Intl. Airport Vijay S Hiremath, Project Manager, Mumbai Intl. Airport Yogendra Sundara Poojari, Cluster HR Manager, Mumbai Intl. Airport Mohamed Aslam M, Construction Manager (Civil), Mumbai Intl. Airport Rajesh Shukla, Construction Manager (Civil), Mumbai Intl. Airport Saju CU, Manager (Mech), Mumbai Intl. Airport Surendran Mappoth, Construction Manager (Civil), Mumbai Intl. Airport Gunasekaran M, Construction Manager (Civil), Mumbai Intl. Airport Lakshmanan CS, Manager (Administration), Mumbai Intl. Airport Atkar Sachin Arvind, Engineering Manager (Civil), EDRC (B&F), Powai Dibyendu Mukhopadhyay, Construction Manager (Civil), Mumbai Intl. Airport Inian R, Construction Manager (Civil), Mumbai Intl. Airport More PD, Manager (Indirect Taxes), Mumbai Intl. Airport Sachidanand Yadav, Construction Manager (Civil), Mumbai Intl. Airport Sanjeeva Kumar, Manager (Civil), Mumbai Intl. Airport Santosh Kumar Jha, Manager (Systems), Mumbai Intl. Airport Viswanathan M, Manager (P&M), Mumbai Intl. Airport Adusumalli Veera Babu, Asst.Engineering Manager (Civil), EDRC (B&F), Powai Durairaj C, Asst.Construction Manager (Civil), Mumbai Intl. Airport Mahesh K, Asst. Manager (Materials), Mumbai Intl. Airport Manivannan A, Asst. Engineering Manager (Mech)Piping, EDRC (B&F), Powai Misri Shaikh Taufiq Shaikh Umar, Asst. Construction Manager (Elec), Mumbai Intl. Airport Nair Sindhu Saseedharan, Asst. Engineering Manager (Civil), EDRC (B&F), Powai Nandedkar Suchita Eknath, Sr. Architect, EDRC (B&F), Powai Shah Naishadh, Asst. Construction Manager (Civil), Mumbai Intl. Airport Sharma Deepak Kumar Motilal, Asst. Construction Manager (Civil), Mumbai Intl. Airport Absorption Absorbed from GET Koushik S, Mumbai Intl. Airport Absorbed from GT Kamlesh Kumar Mishra, KK-Godrej Waterside – IT Park Hydrocarbon & Power Vertical New Joiners AMurali S, Head-finance & Accounts, CN-Head Qrs. Saravanan M, Asst. Manager (Mech), CN-Head Qrs. Sanghavi Hitendrakumar Vasantray, Asst. Manager (Civil)-QA&QC, MB-HPCL Lobs, Mumbai Sandip Kumar Bharati, Asst. Manager (Civil), KK - RO (HCP) Mahuri Snehkumar Lakhanprasad, Manager (Mech)- QA/QC, AB-HCP, Baroda Suresh Babu S, Asst. Manager (Mech)-QA & QC, HPCL RR Packaging Umesh Prasad, Asst.Manager (Materials), Cairn Energy, Barmer Rajvir Rana, Asst.Construction Manager (Mech), Cairn Energy, Barmer Ranjith Krishnan R S, Asst.Manager (Mech)-QA & QC, Cairn Energy, Barmer Subhash Chander, Asst.Manager (P&M), Cairn Energy, Barmer January - March 2009 Veera Bahu Muthiah A K, Asst.Construction Manager (Mech), Cairn Energy, Barmer New Responsibilities Shanker Mr, EVP- HCP Business (Domestic), CN-Head Qrs. Absorption Absorbed from GET Vinoth Kumar G Absorbed from GT Rajeev Kumar Dubeysunil Kumar Jha Balaji PM, Manager (Materials), AB-HCP, Baroda Divisional Corporate New Responsibilities Mr. N. Srinivasan, Head – Plant & Machinery 77 Infrastructure OC New Joiners Ramamohan Rao C V, HR Head - Infrastructure Operating Company, CN-Head Qrs. Subrahmanya Bhat K, DGM-Civil (Bridges & Roads), Mumbai Region New Responsibilities Ramakrishnan S, Marketing Officer, M3-B, CN-Head Qrs. Promotions (M1-A & above ) Niranjana P, Head-Operations (Hydel & Nuclear), CN-Head Qrs. Anantha Subramanian S, Head-Finance, Accounts & Admin. (Infra OC), CN-Head Qrs. Ananthakumar TS, In-Charge (Ports & Harbours), CN-Head Qrs. Senthilnathan K, In-Charge Infrastructure Engg Tech, CN-EDRC, Head Qrts. Sreehari KP, In-ChargeQuality Mngt & HSE (Infra OC), CN-Head Qrs. Subbarama Raju V, Head-Administrative Services (Infra), CN-Head Qrs. Suresh Kumar D, HeadSupply Chain Management (Infra), CN-Head Qrs. Prasanta Kumar Ray, Manager (P&M), CN-Head Qrs. Sathyanarayana S, Manager (HSE), CN-Head Qrs. Savithri S, Manager (Civil), CN-Head Qrs. Gnanapalam S, Manager (Civil), CN-Head Qrs. Azad Ali M, Construction Manager (Civil), CN-Head Qrs. Dhanasekaran B, Engineering Manager (Hydraulics), CN-EDRC,Head Qrts. Sankaranarayanan N, Manager (Administration), CN-Head Qrs. Tamil Selvan K, Engineering Manager (Civil), CN-EDRC,Head Qrts. Chandrasekaran N, Superintendent (Civil)-Q.C, CN-Head Qrs. Gopal Badida Kat, Asst.Manager (Civil), CN-Head Qrs. Murali Gaddam, Asst.Engineering Manager (Civil), CN-Head Qrs. Muralimohan N, Asst.Engineering Manager (Civil), CN-EDRC, Head Qrts. Ramachandran MV, Project Manager, CN-Hydel Power Proj., Kuttiyad Sivanesan K, Deputy General Manager-Accounts & Admin., CN-L&T Shipyard, Kattupalli Hemanth H, Deputy General Manager (Mech), CN-Head Qrs. Hanumantacharya Bhadri, Manager (Civil), CN-Barc NRG, Kalpakkam Satyaki Basu, Manager (Civil), CN-Head Qrs. Subramanian SA, Manager (Mech), CN-NPCIL, Kudamkulam Thavasi P, Manager (Civil), CN-Head Qrs. Dhandapani V, Manager (Civil), CN-Head Qrs. Jeeva David J, Construction Manager (Civil), CNKrishnagiri-Thopurghat Road Jayachandran S, Engineering Manager (Civil), CN-EDRC, Head Qrts. Sreedharan K, Manager (P&M), CN-NPCIL, Kudamkulam 78 Francis Jesuraj S, Construction Manager (Mech), CN-NPCIL, Kudamkulam Jayakumar NV, Construction Manager (Mech), CN-NPCIL, Kudamkulam Sanjib Kumar Dutta, Construction Manager (Civil), CN-Krishnagiri-Thopurghat Road Thinagaran D, Construction Manager (Civil), CNKrishnagiri-Thopurghat Road Varadharajan R, Construction Manager (Civil), CN-L&T Shipyard, Kattupalli Bala Subramaniam V, Construction Manager (Mech), CN-Tada Road Project Nagendra Sai K, Manager (Mech), CN-NPCIL, Kudamkulam Prabakar K, Construction Manager (Civil), CNKrishnagiri-Thopurghat Road Ramalingam K, Construction Manager (Mech), CN-NPCIL, Kudamkulam Ravi K, Construction Manager (Civil), CN-Tada Road Project Chetan Channappa Kontikal, Asst.Construction Manager (Mech), CN-NPCIL, Kudamkulam Chockalingam S, Asst.Manager (HSE), CNNPCIL, Kudamkulam Mallikarjuna Rao M, Asst.Manager-QA & QC, CNKrishnagiri-Thopurghat Road Muthaiyan T, Asst.Construction Manager (Mech), CN-NPCIL, Kudamkulam Palaniyandi S, Asst.Construction Manager (Mech), CN-NPCIL, Kudamkulam Ponnappan S, Asst.ManagerQA & QC, CN-NPCIL, Kudamkulam Ranjith Kumar R, Asst.Construction Manager (Civil), CN-TNRSP03 Road, Ramanathapuram Divakar HK, Manager (P&M), MB-Mono Rail Sundaramoorthy B, Construction Manager (Civil), MB-BARC (AWTF), Tarapur Raj Kumar, Manager (Civil), Mumbai Region Wategaonkar Mahendra Subhan, Construction Manager (Mech), Mb-SWS Rehab Unit-3 Kutuluru Sesha Reddy, Project Head, Railway Embankt.&Jetty-B&M, KK-Dhamra Maheshwara Reddy N, Manager (Mines), KK-Dhamra Shubhendu Bose, Construction Manager (Civil), KK-Dhamra Saravanakumar VR, Construction Manager (Civil), KK-Dhamra Manish Prosanna Roy, Asst.Construction Manager (Civil), KK-Dhamra Munireddy N, Asst.Construction Manager (Mech), KK-Dhamra Sanjeev Kumar Upadhyay, Resident Project Manager, DL-Parbati HEP Vijaya Bhasker K, Project Manager, DL-Tapovan Vishnugad JV Ashiwani Kumar Tripathi, Construction Manager (Civil), DL-ADHPL, Manali, Pkg-II Vasudeva Rao S, Manager (Mech), DL- DMRC UG Station Saket Sanjay Chhabra, Construction Manager (Civil), DL-L&T Sucg JV - Amel C5 January - March 2009 Sudhir Kumar Shrivastava, Construction Manager (Civil), DL-L&T Sucg JV Amel C5 Mishra Vaibhav Ramkrishna, Manager (P&M), DL-Tapovan Vishnugad JV Sandeep Singh, Construction Manager (Civil), L&T Metro Tunneling JV (DMRC) Jagan Mohan Naidu B, Construction Manager (Civil), DL-U.P. Road Bahjraich-Faiza Jatinder Kumar Shukla, Construction Manager (Civil), DL-DMRC Udyog Bhavan Ranjit Singh Attri, Construction Manager (Civil), DL-Parbati HEP Vasireddy Venkateswara Rao, Manager (Accounts), DL-DMRC Udyog Bhavan Anand R, Asst.Manager (Administration), L&T Metro Tunneling JV (DMRC) Anindya Das, Asst.Construction Manager (Civil), DL-Parbati HEP Bhasker Mishra, Asst.Construction Manager (Civil), DL-DMCR Cut & Cover, Green Park Bikash Kumar Dutta, Asst. Manager-QA & QC, DLDMRC UG Station Saket Manoj Kumar, Asst.Construction Manager (Civil), DL-Parbati HEP Navin Chandra, Asst.Manager (Elec)-P&M, DL-Tapovan Vishnugad JV Raghvendra Singh Sengar, Asst.Manager (Accounts & Admn), DL-L&T Sucg JV Amel C5 Ravindra Kumar Choudhary, Asst. Construction Manager (Civil), DL-L&T Sucg JV Amel C5 Rupesh Mishra, Asst. Construction Manager (Civil), DL-Parbati HEP Santanu Majumdar, Asst. Manager (Civil), DL-R O Soumadeep Das, Asst. Construction Manager (Civil), DL-DMCR Cut&Cover,Green Park Gangadhar Sangappa Rebinal, Project Manager (Civil), BLBIAL-Basket-II Karthi M, Construction Manager (Civil), BL- BIAL-Basket-II Vijay Kumar Singh, Manager (P&M), BL-BIAL Ph-II Mallesh HK, Asst.Construction Manager (Civil), BL- BIAL Job Bansal Rishi Kailash, Chief Project Officer, AB-Ahmedabad-ViramgamMaliya-Road Madhu Sudhanan JR, DGM (Quality Control), ABHalol-Godhra-Shamlaji Road Parthasarathi Pyne, DGM (P&M), AB-R O Sudhiranjan Satpathy, Project Manager (Civil), ABNHAI,Vadodara-Bharuch Job Aravinda Ghosh PG, Manager (P&M), AB-NHAI,VadodaraBharuch Job Diwakar Thakur, Construction Manager, AB-NHAI,PalanpurSwaroopgunj Ravi V, Construction Manager (Civil), AB-Halol-GodhraShamlaji Road Shriraman S, Manager (Mech), AB-Halol-Godhra-Shamlaji Road Ashok Kumar Das, Manager (P&M), AB-NHAI,VadodaraBharuch Job Karanam Govardhana Giri, Construction Manager (Civil), AB-Ahmedabad-ViramgamMaliya-Road Manish Kumar Agarwal, Construction Manager (Civil), AB-Ahmedabad-ViramgamMaliya-Road Manoja Kumar Pradhan, Manager (P&M), ABAhmedabad-ViramgamMaliya-Road January - March 2009 Partha Protim Chakravarty, Construction Manager (Civil), AB-NHAI,PalanpurSwaroopgunj Tapash Basu, Manager (Civil), AB-L&T Hew Ship Bldg, Hazira Balasubramanian V, Manager (Stores), AB-AhmedabadViramgam-Maliya-Road Kamal Singh, Construction Manager (Civil), AB-RajkotJamnagar-Vadinar Road Ashokkumar SG, Construction Manager (Civil), AB-Ahmedabad-ViramgamMaliya-Road Pradeep B, Construction Manager (Civil), AB-NHAI, Vadodara-Bharuch Job Soumendra Guha, Construction Manager (Civil), AB-NHAI,Vadodara-Bharuch Job Haridas Shah, Asst. Construction Manager (Civil), AB-AhmedabadViramgam-Maliya-Road Kantak Yogesh Ashok, Asst. Construction Manager (Civil), AB-NHAI, PalanpurSwaroopgunj Manjayya Devadiga H, Asst.Construction Manager (Civil), AB-NHAI, PalanpurSwaroopgunj Manoj E, Asst. Manager (Mech), AB-AhmedabadViramgam-Maliya-Road Ramakrishna Chepuri, Asst.Construction Manager (Civil), AB-AhmedabadViramgam-Maliya-Road Sundarraj G, Asst.Construction Manager (Civil), AB-NHAI, PalanpurSwaroopgunj Vishnu Parasad Shukla, Superintendent-Q.C, AB-NHAI,RJ-11,Kota Yadwade Ashutosh Prakash, Asst. Construction Manager (Civil), AB-NHAI, VadodaraBharuch Job Emmanuel Sekar S, DGM (P&M), HY-KothakotaJadherla Road Korimilli Vsn Murty, Manager (Civil), HY-Kothakota-Jadherla Road Balakrishnan N, Manager (P&M), HY-KothakotaJadherla Road Natarajan M, Construction Manager (Civil), HY-VelIGonda Project Surendran Pillai P, Manager (Mines), HY-VelIGonda Project Amitesh Kishore Prasad, Asst.Manager (Civil), HY-R O Rudra Venkata Ratnam, Asst.Construction Manager (Civil), HY-VelIGonda Project Sreejith G, Asst.Construction Manager (Civil), HY-Kothakota-Jadherla Road Goutam Kumar Sarkar, Construction Manager (Civil), Subansiri Hydel Project Jatinder Singh, Construction Manager (Civil), Subansiri Hydel Project Hari Narayan K, Asst.Manager (Administration), Subansiri Hydel Project Sanjeev Gupta, RPM (Trans. & Infs.), Delhi Intl. Airport Krishnakumar Pandey, Construction Manager (Civil), Delhi Intl. Airport Puranjit Datta, Construction Manager (Civil), Delhi Intl. Airport Debapriya Bandyopadhyay, Manager-Quarry, Delhi Intl. Airport Jaymant Kumar Singh, Construction Manager (Civil), Delhi Intl. Airport Saikat Dey, Construction Manager (Civil), Delhi Intl. Airport Thota Venkataramana, Manager (P&M), Delhi Intl. Airport 79 Abhay Singh, Asst.Construction Manager (Civil), Delhi Intl. Airport Nayudu Thatikayala RL, Asst.Construction Manager (Civil), Delhi Intl. Airport Pranab Krishna DE, Asst.Construction Manager (Civil), Delhi Intl. Airport Prosanta Paul, Asst. Construction Manager (Civil), Delhi Intl. Airport Rajesh Sharma, Asst.Construction Manager (Civil), Delhi Intl. Airport Sanjib KR Chakraborty, Asst.Construction Manager (Civil), Delhi Intl. Airport Jayaprakash Tentu, Manager (Civil), Gangavaram Port, Vizag Radheshyam B, Construction Manager (Civil), Gangavaram Port, Vizag Vinod G, Cluster HeadMumbai (B&M), WEHElevated Access Road Radhakrishnan CR, Manager (Accounts), WEH-Elevated Access Road Absorbed from GET Santa Suman Dutta Akurathi Nageswararao Absorbed from GT Absorption Murali A Absorbed from DET Amit Ranjanmithilesh Kumar Pandeysatish Kumarsantosh Kumar Paswan Rajarshi Ghosh Electrical and Gulf Projects OC Promotions (M1-A & above ) Sudarsan JS, Head-Gulf Operations (E&GP Oc), Gulf-Common, IG - Sharjah Mahajan SL, Cluster Head (TLRE Sector) - Mumbai, Trans. Lines & Rly. Constn. MBRO Ganesh G, Asst. Manager (Resource Deployment), Electrical (P&M), CN-Head Qrs. Absorption Gurusamy V, Sr. Engineer (Elec), Industrial Electrification, RPL, Jamnagar Mithilesh Kumar Verma, Sr.Engineer (Elec), Sub Stations, AB-400 Kv S/Y at Bikaner Prabhu P, Sr. Engineer (Instrumentation), Industrial Electrification, RPL, Jamnagar Raghavan Rajesh, Sr.Engineer (Elec), Sub Stations, KK-Midnapur Saravana Perumal R, Sr. Design Engineer (Civil), EDRC (TL & RC), CN-EDRC, Head Qrts. Tarun Kumar Das, Sr.Engineer (Elec), Industrial Electrification, RPL, Jamnagar Sandip Kumar Sahana, Engineer (Elec), Transmission Lines, DL-Parbati Amritsar T/L Vinothkumar K, Engineer (Instrumentation), Industrial Electrification, RPL, Jamnagar Ashimava Praharaj, Accounts Supervisor, Transmission Lines, KK- Nhpc At Siliguri Chandra Pal Singh, Engineer (Elec), Electrical,Instn.&Comm., DL-Honda Siel Bhiwadi, Ph-Ii Somenath Dey, Asst. Indl. Rel. Supervisor, Electrical, Instn. & Comm., HY - Bhilai GIS Project Vijayashankar D, Engineer (Mech), Edrc (TL & RC), TLT Proto Works, Kancheepuram Metallurgical, Material Handling and Water OC New Joiners Bisweswar Kumar Sarkar, Manager (Civil), KK-Jamshedpur Prashanth P, Engineering Manager (Mech), CN-EDRC, Head Qrts. Thiruppathi V, Engineering Manager (Civil), CN-EDRC,Head Qrts. Biranchi Narayan Behera, Manager (Mech), AB-VAL Lanjigarh Subhajit Datta, Asst.Manager (Materials), Kolkata Region 80 Narayan Patra, Asst.Construction Manager (Civil), KK-Bhushan Steel Pradip Kumar Majumdar, Asst.Engineering Manager (Mech), KK-EDRC, Kolkata Ananthakrishnan Ananthanarayanan, Asst.Construction Manager (Civil), Delhi Region Karthikeyan N, Asst.Construction Manager (Civil), HY- UGDS Nizamabad Venkata Ramesh Indugu, Asst.Construction Manager (Civil), HY- Vizag Steel PLT BF 3 Subir Kumar Saha, Construction Manager (Civil) , JM-Tata Steel,Jamshedpur Kulvindar Singh, Asst.Construction Manager (Mech), JM-Tata Steel,Jamshedpur New Responsibilities Nagarajan R, DGM & Incharge, L&T Engineering Workshop, Kancheepuram Absorption Absorbed from DET Chandra Shekhar Absorbed from GET Anton Jayanth M Debadatta Pattanayak Absorbed from GT Pranav Dubey Nrusingha Charan Nahak Soumen Paul Jha Prakash Narayan, Marketing Manager (M&M BU), M&M, Kolkata January - March 2009 Academic Achievers NDT Level III Certifications Mr. E. Sivasubramani, BMH – HQ successfully completed NDT Level III Certification in Magnetic Particle Testing and Visual Testing, conducted by The American Society for Nondestructive Testing, Inc., USA, during December 2008. Ms. T. Kaviarasi, Sr. Design Engineer, EDRC (MMH&W – BMH) secured first rank with gold medal in M. Tech Environmental Engineering Degree Programme, 2007, from Pondicherry University, Puducherry. At the convocation on March 20, 2009 she received the Award Certificate and Gold Medal from Mr. Mylswamy Annadurai, Project Director of Chandrayaan-I. Mr. Sujeeth Kumar receiving the citation from Mr. N. Baskara Raju, EVP & Head – Infra OC. Others in picture are Cmde. (Retd.) M.S. Randhawa – Vice President (HED), Mr. A.S. Prabhakar – Project Manager, Mr. A.S. Girivasan – Manager (Mech.). Mr. T.V. Sethu, Asst. Engineering Manager (Mechanical), EDRCChennai, MMH&W OC receiving the gold medal for securing first rank in the Bachelor of Engineering (Mechanical) Examination held in April, 2008 conducted by College of Engineering Guindy Campus, Anna University. Ms. Ratna Mishra, Executive (Personnel), E&GP OC has successfully completed her Diploma in Training and Development from Indian Society for Training and Development, New Delhi. January - March 2009 Mr. Sujeeth Kumar, Asst. Construction Manager (Mech.) from B&F OC, presently posted at Vizag Vessel Project in Hyderabad Cluster, has successfully completed NDT Level III in Radiographic Testing Method and Liquid Penetrant Testing Method conducted by The American Society for Nondestructive Testing (ASNT), Inc., USA. ASNT is the world’s largest technical society for nondestructive testing. Mr. Sujeeth Kumar is the first to have completed this prestigious certification in ECC Division. 81 AWS-CWI Accredition Mu. Subramanian, HOD (QA/QC), EWL, Kanchipuram has come out successfully in AWS CWI. The AWSCWI accredition is one of the Fabrication Industry’s reputed stamps of approval. Industry professionals who qualify for CWI are highly regarded and sought after throughout the Welding and QA/QC industry, because this Certification adheres to a highly documented level of skill and capability. This is organised by the American Welding Society through their accredited agencies. He is also a qualified NACE Level I and Level II Painting Inspector. This is an American body which conducts Coaching and Exams in two levels on corrosion engineering, paints, various painting applications and inspection of all these coatings and Certification to International Standard. Foreign companies insist on having such qualified Inspection personnel for Welding and Painting Inspection before placing orders. Mr. Sharan Kumar Chhawchharia, DET, EDRC -Kolkata, MMH&W OC secured first position in the Diploma in the Mechanical Engineering Examination held in June, 2008 conducted by West Bengal State Council of Technical Education. Student Achiever Master. K. Anandavinayagam, son of Mr. V. Krishnamoorthy (Asst. Manager – Formwork Factory, Pondy) studying in 6th std, of Vidya Niketan School, Puducherry has won the 2nd Prize in NDTV-GREENATHON – the 24 hrs live Quiz programme held between February 7-8, 2009. 82 Farewell to SJP and SH Mr. S.J. Punnose (SJP), Head – Plant & Machinery and Mr. S. Hariharan (SH), Vice President – Head, Property Development, Developmental Projects recently retired from the service of the Mr. K.V. Rangaswami presenting a memento to Company. Mr. S.J. Punnose as Mr. V.B. Gadgil (extreme left) SJP in his 32 years applauds of service has made significant contribution to the growth of ECC Division. RPL-Jamnagar (Phase –I), world’s largest refinery was constructed under his leadership in a record time which gave an edge in bagging recurring orders. As Head of P&M BU, he was instrumental in institutionalising P&M as internal SBU with a great deal of accountability. SH joined as an executive assistant to then Joint Managing Director, Mr. C.R. Ramakrishnan and in his 34 year tenure of office has served in many of our prestigious projects including overseas assignments. A farewell was organised by the r e s p e c t i v e departments. Senior executives – Mr. K.V. Rangaswami, Mr. V.B. Gadgil, Mr. J.Ganguly and Mr. Mr. J. Ganguly presenting a memento to Mr. S. K. Venkatesh shared Hariharan as Mr. K. Venkatesh (extreme right) looks on their thoughts and highlighted the rich contribution and sustained growth fostered by these leaders. ECC News wishes them and their families best of health, happiness and prosperity in the years to come. Bereavements Our condolences to the bereaved family of the following staff members Sreedharan OK, Chargehand (Mech.), BL-BIAL-Basket-II passed away on January 18, 2009 Gedda Kiran, Sr. Engineer (Elec.), Industrial Electrification, HY-RIL Kakinada, passed away on February 8, 2009 Rama Kiran Tadikonda, Accounts Assistant, HY-SSSWSP East & West Godavari passed away on April 3, 2009 January - March 2009 Mr. K. Unnikrishnan Warrier, VP & Head-TL&RE, HQ-Chennai, receives his 30-year long service award from Mr. A.M. Naik, Chairman & Managing Director Mr. P.R . Surendra Babu, JGM Institutional & Commercial Buildings, DIAL receives his 25-year long service award from Mr. Naik Mr. K. Kannan, Deputy Project Director, DIAL receives his 25-year long service award from Mr. Naik Mr. A. Martin Nagendran, Driver, Head Qrs, receives his 25-year long service award from Mr. K.V. Rangaswami, Member of the Board & President (Construction) Mr. S. Kalyana Sundaram, Asst. Manager (Admin), Head Qrs, receives his 25-year long service award from Mr. Rangaswami Mr. K. Manikandan, General Asst., Head Qrs, receives his 25-year long service award from Mr. Rangaswami Mr. V. Arvindan, Manager (Materials), Head Qrs, receives his 25-year long service award from Mr. Rangaswami Mr. M.R . Vasudevan, Sr. Executive Secretary, Head Qrs, receives his 25-year long service award from Mr. Rangaswami Mr. S. Selvamani, Despatch Asst., Head Qrs, receives his 25-year long service award from Mr. Rangaswami Mr. P. Murugayyan, Manager (Legal), Head Qrs, receives his 25-year long service award from Mr. Rangaswami Mrs. Chandrakala S. Kamath, Asst. Manager (Personnel), Head Qrs, receives her 25-year long service award from Mr. Rangaswami January - March 2009 83 Mr. R . Giridharan, Deputy General Manager (ISD) – Head Qrs, receives his 20-year long service award from Mr. Rangaswami Mr. S. Suresh, Manager (Catering), SRC, Kodaikanal, receives his 20-year long service award from Mr. Rangaswami Mr. T.K. Ghosh, Construction Manager, KK-IISCO Burnpur, receives his 30-year long service award from Mr. Vivek Bhaskar Gadgil, Sr. VP & Head-Electrical & Gulf Projects Mr. Sandip Kumar Bhattacharjee, Project Manager, KK-Midnapur, receives his 25-year long service award from Mr. Gadgil Mr. M.S. Raval, SPM (B&UI), IGOman, receives his 25-year long service award from Mr. Gadgil Mr. D. Antony Ravi, Chief Systems Manager, HQ -Chennai, receives his 25-year long service award from Mr. Gadgil Mr. Sunil Kumar Jaywant, DGM (Fabrication Shop), TLT-Proto-Works, Kancheepuram, receives his 20-year long service award from Mr. Gadgil Mr. P. Srikanth, Project Leader, TLTFactory Pondy, receives his 20-year long service award from Mr. Gadgil Mr. G.P. Raman, Manager (Accounts), HQ-Chennai, receives his 20-year long service award from Mr. Gadgil Mr. R. Meenakshi Sundaram, Construction Manager (Civil), IG-Oman, receives his 20-year long service award from Mr. Gadgil Mr. S.L. Mahajan, Cluster Head (TLRESector), Mumbai, receives his 20-year long service award from Mr. Gadgil Mr. Satyaki Ballabh Biswas, Engineering Manager receives his 20-year long service award from Mr. T. Azhaguvel, Cluster Head (MMH&W OC) 84 January - March 2009 Mr. R. Rangarajan, Manager (Admin) Chennai Region, receives his 25-year long service award from Mr. P. Babu Raj Singh, Regional Manager-CNRO Mr. I. Samuel Athisaya Raj, General Asst. Chennai Region, receives his 25-year long service award from Mr. Babu Raj Singh Mr. R . Privthiviraj, Junior Foreman (Instru.), NPCIL, receives his 20-year long service award from Mr. Babu Raj Singh Mr. A. Abdul Anis, Asst. Foreman (Mech.), Nagore Karaikal-RE, receives his 20-year long service award from Mr. Babu Raj Singh Mr. V.S. Raveendran, General Foreman (P&M) receives 20-year long service award from Mr. Babu Raj Singh Mr. Yogendra Sundara Poojari, Cluster HR Manager, MIAL, B&F, receives his 25-year long service award from Mr. D.K. Sen, Project Director, MIAL Mr. Anup Kumar Mitra, Cluster HSE Manager, MIAL, B&F, receives his 25-year long service award from Mr. Sen Mr. B.R . Parmar, General Assistant, MIAL, B&F, receives his 25-year long service award from Mr. Sen Mr. Raju B.S, Project Manager (Civil), MIAL, B&F, receives his 25-year long service award from Mr. Sen Mr. Sachidanand Yadav, Construction Manager (Civil), MIAL, B&F, receives his 25-year long service award from Mr. Sen Mr. M.D. Bodas, General Foreman (Civil), MIAL, B&F, receives his 25-year long service award from Mr. Sen Mr. Pankaj Kumar R . Shah, General Foreman (Civil), AB -HEW, Hazira, B&F, receives his 25-year long service award from Mr. P. Chandramohan, Regional Manager, ABRO January - March 2009 85 Mr. Viju Varkey, CPM (B&F), CNRO, receives his 20-year long service award from Mr. S.N. Subrahmanyan, EVP and Head Buildings and Factories Operating Company Mr. Veerapan K., Joint General Manager Civil (B&F), receives his 20-year long service award from Mr. Subrahmanyan Mr. Subbramaniyan C., Deputy General Manager at Sri Lanka for I&CB, B&F, receives his 20-year long service award from Mr. Subrahmanyan Mr. H. Jagannathan, Joint General Manager Business Development (Developmental Projects), receives his 30-year long service award from Mr. K. Venkatesh, EVP & Head Developmental Projects Mr. A. Sundaram, Construction Manager (L&T Arun Excello IT SEZ), receives his 25-year long service award from Mr. Venkatesh Mr. A. Soundararajan, Head Business Development New Business Initiative (Developmental Projects), receives his 20-year long service award from Mr. Venkatesh Mr. Badruddin Ali Shaikh, Manager Mr. Ajoykumar Mohanty, (Purchase) MBRO, receives his 30Manager year long (P&M), KK-Jharsuguda Project, Mohan, receives service award from Mr. Ramesh his 20-year long-service Regional Manager, MBRO award from Mr. Azhaguvel. Mr. T. Appukuttan Nair, Asst. Manager (Accounts) receives 30-year Head-UAE, long service Mr. Shrinath Rao,hisCountry award receives from Mr. Ramakrishnan, Dubai, his B. 25-year long-service VP & from HeadMr.(Finance, Accounts & award Vivek Bhaskar Gadgil, Admin.) Head-E&GP OC. Mr. B. Rajmohan Rao, Asst. Construction Manager (Mech.), Cairn Energy Project, Barmer receives his 25-year long service award from Mr. K Venkataramanan, Member of the Board and President (E&C) Mr. Bhushan Chand Gupta, Asst. Construction Manager (Mech.), Cairn Energy Project, Barmer receives his 20-year long service award from Mr. K. Venkataramanan Mr. R . Sivakumar, Project Manager, IG (KUW) Kuwait Project receives his 25-year long service award from Mr. T. Chinnappa, Chief Executive, L&T Kuwait Construction Mr. K.M. Pathak, Manager (HSE), NTPC Sipat Project, receives his 20-year long service award from Mr. M.R. Shanker, Executive Vice President, Hydrocarbon Construction & Pipelines Business (Domestic) 86 January - March 2009 Dear ECC-ites, Our Chairman & Managing Director, Shri. A.M. Naik has added one more feather to his cap. He has received one of the highest civilian awards of the nation, ‘Padma Bhushan’ for his contribution to Indian Industry. NeoKarma Yogi, Mr. Naik, with all his magnanimity said that he received the award on behalf of all employees of L&T. Though the Padma Bhushan is awarded for an individual’s contribution to the nation, through this gesture AMN is driving home the precept, ‘Team first, individual next’. We wish him many more laurels and successes ahead. The Division has bagged some major orders in Q-4. Dam package of 1200 MW Punatsangchhu-I Hydropower Project, Bhutan; Construction of 7 nos. 33 kV Substations and Power Transmission network in Abu Dhabi, UAE; Rural Electrification Works in Jalpaiguri & North 24-Parganas districts of West Bengal State; 330 MW Shrinagar Hydroelectric Project, Uttaranchal; Construction of Integrated Thematic Township comprising 3517 flats from the Andhra Pradesh Rajiv Swagruha Corporation Limited, Hyderabad; Construction of cement plants for M/s. KCP Limited and M/s. Lafarge. I am extremely happy with the performance of our Division during the year 2008-09. I believe that the Budget/MTR targets on various business and financial parameters (viz. Order Inflow, Sales, Profitability etc.) will be met with, demonstrating the ceaseless efforts of ECC-ites to improve performance levels. My sincere appreciation to all fellow ECC-ites, whose hard work and commitment have made this possible. I am quite optimistic about the performance of the Division in the Budget year 2009-10. Healthy order book as on Mar ’09 would give us a head start in the year 2009-10. We have recently concluded our budget meetings and kept pragmatic growth targets for the budget year. Sustained efforts from all of you can alone achieve these targets at a time, when the business scenario does not appear very bright throughout the world. To protect our bottomline, I suggest a three-pronged approach viz. 1. Optimise cost 2. Reduce wastage, and 3. Improve efficiency. There is enough room for improvement in utilisation of resources (both manpower and machinery). Improved utilisation of manpower while bringing savings to the organisation, improves the morale of employees as well. I am also looking forward to substantial reduction in overheads like travelling/conveyance expenses, power, telephones/ stationery etc. I request everyone to work towards these ends in his own sphere of operation. Verticalisation has almost reached maturity stage and OCs are functioning like near independent entities. I am happy to see that OCs are working on becoming more and more competitive and drive innovation led by technology. It is quite evident that OCs have been formed at the right time to take the Division to higher platforms in an accelerated way. We have won prestigious awards in various categories for Excellence in Performance and Quality, such as the Essar Steel Infrastructure Awards and Dun & Bradstreet Rolta Corporate Award. On the internal front, our ISD has bagged Chairman’s rolling trophy for ‘IT Effectiveness’. Our Division has been conferred the ‘CFO Award for the Best Presented Accounts’ for the financial year 200708 among the Divisions of L&T for the second time in a row. CONTENTS Corporate News 3 Innovations 15 Site Insight 16 Meet Our GMs 24 Safety News 34 Kaleidoscope 44 CSR 58 PRAYAS 60 HR News 62 Staff News 74 Long Service Awards 83 Mr. Amit Biswas, Construction Manager (Civil), Warora Thermal Power Plant Project receives his 20-year long service award from Mr. Shanker Mr. J.R. Gupta, Project Manager (EI&C), AB -AVVNL, Nagaur, receives his 20-year long service award from Mr. P. Chandramohan, Regional ManagerABRO Mr. K. Sundaramoorthy, Foreman (Elec), BL-220 KV Varahi-TL, receives his 25-year long service award from Mr. L.N. Mitra, Regional Manager-BLRO Mr. M. Govindasamy, Head – Plant & Machinery (MMH&W OC), receives his 30-year long service award from Mr. D.R . Ray – EVP & Head (MMH&W OC) Mr. Dilip Kumar Poddar, ISD – EDRC, Kolkata receives his 30-year long service award from Mr. Derek Michael Shah – Head – Minerals & Metals BU Mr. H.K. Mandal, Engineering Manager, Kolkata receives his 25-year long service award from Mr. Derek Michael Shah Mr. Asish Kumar Sinha, Cluster Plant Manager, Jamshedpur receives his 20-year long service award from Mr. Anupam Kumar, Cluster Head (MMH&W) Mr. Ranjit Kumar Goswami, Works Manager TL-Tower Works, TLT-Pithampur, receives his 20-year long service award from Mr. Rajan Malhotra, Regional Manager – DLRO Mr. S. Chandrasekaran, Sr. Executive, Secretary, GES Chennai, receives his 25-year long service award from Mr. S. Sridhar, General Manager, L&T, e-Engineering, Chennai Mr. S. Duraisamy, Asst. Foreman (Welding) IG (OMA) – Oman receives his 25-year long service award from Mr. N. Ravi, Chief Executive, LTEM-Oman EDITOR V.S. Ramana EDITORIAL TEAM K. Sridharan Alexander Benjamin Ashwin Chand V. Ramesh Kumar V. Eswar Subha Anand PHOTOGRAPHY V.S. Natanavelu Printed at Lokavani Southern Printers Pvt. Ltd., 122, Greams Road, Chennai-600 006. Edited by V.S. Ramana for Larsen & Toubro Limited, ECC Division from ECC Headquarters, Manapakkam, Chennai 600089. Designed by PACE systems & graphic communications, Chennai 600018. The views expressed in this magazine are not necessarily those of the Management. The contents of this magazine may not be reproduced without the written permission of the Editor. Not for sale. Only for circulation among employees of L&T – ECC Division. While it is commendable to have achieved these honours, it brings in more responsibility to sustain and constantly improve our benchmarks in performance. K.V. Rangaswami Member of the Board & President (Construction) 2 January - March 2009 January - March 2009 87 Vol. 17, No. 1 , January-March, 2009 Employee Communication Journal of Larsen & Toubro Limited - ECC Division “Incredible, inspiring, how a group of visionaries with talented, dedicated and passioned workforce have created a mammoth organisaiton. My salutations.” – Mr. Yogesh K. Gupta, Ambassador of India to Denmark on January 2, 2009. “I heard about L&T. Today I saw the culture very closely and I was impressed with the commitment the staff have. I wish them all the best in the days to come.” – Mr. S.R. Jangid, IPS, Commissioner of Police on January 20, 2009. “Excellent Visuals.” – Mr. Bryn Fosburgh, Vice President, Mr. Prakash Iyer, Division Vice President, M/s. Trimble, USA and Mr. Rajan Iyer, M/s. Trimble, India on February 9, 2009. “A delightful and well assembled historical perspective of the growth and diversity of L&T. Very well narrated.” – Rear Admiral Vineet Bakshi, VSM, Director General, Naval Projects (MB) and Captain Dr. Satish Chandra Mittal, Director, Dry Dock (E&S) on February 26, 2009. “Very impressive facilities and excellent use of light for the exhibition. Thank you for a lovely tour.” – Ms. Aileen Nandi, Commercial Consul, Ms. Kelly Kopcial, Visa Officer and Mr. P. Vaidyanathan, Senior Commercial Specialist, US Commercial Service, American Consulate General on March 3, 2009. “Interesting and informative.” – Mr. H. Douglas Evans, P.E. – President & CEO, M/s. Gulf Interstate Engineering, Mr. David Ammerman, Head of Engineering, L&T-Gulf and Mr. Criss Shipman, Houston, TX, USA on March 18, 2009.