RINL News

Led by Sri PK Rath, CMD,RINL-VSP employees paid homage to the Pulwama martyrs by observing a two minute silence during the 37th RINL Formation Day celebrations held at Ukkunagaram yesterday night.While addressing the employees and their family members on this occasion, Sri PK Rath said that the plant has made significant  progress on all fronts be it production, marketing, HR, material management or Finance and is growing from strength to strength to keep the flag of RINL flying high.   Sri Rath mentioned that in the areas of expansion and modernization notable progress has been made and Coke Oven Battery-5, Central Dispatch Yard, KBR-2 projects are progressing at a brisk pace for early commissioning. He said that the work at the Forged Wheel Plant at Rae Bareilly, UP is also picking up pace for commissioning in September,2019. He stated that RINL is all set to create a record  sales turn over of more than Rs 20,000/ crores during the current financial year.  Sri Rath said that new sources of iron ore and coking coal have been identified to fill the gap during crisis. He exhorted RINL collective to focus on ramping up of production to reach rated capacities, increase in Pulverized Coal Injection (PCI) in all the three Blast Furnaces to bring down the requirement of coke procurement to reduce  hot metal production cost, early commissioning of Coke Oven Battery-5 to reduce the dependence on purchase coke  etc. Sri Rath distributed Jawaharlal Nehru Awards to 79 employees for their outstanding performance in their respective areas. The dignitaries also distributed Eco Awards to various department and schools. Sri PJ Vijayakar, CVO, Sri P Raychaudhury, Director (Commercial), Sri KC Das, Director (Personnel), Sri VV Venugopal Rao, Director (Finance), Smt Sarada Rath, President of Visteel Mahila Samiti  participated in the celebrations. A colourful cultural programmes were performed by school children of Ukkunagaram. A musical band by Rituraj Mohanty, a famous play back singer and his team  also enthralled the audience on the occasion at Rajatotsav vedika in Trishna grounds. A large number of employees and their family members were present on the occasion.