RINL News

 “Year 2021-22 has been a year of turnaround and I congratulate RINL collective for achieving a stupendous performance in all areas”, said Sri Atul Bhatt while addressing senior officials and representatives of various unions at a function organized at MP Hall of Ukkunagaram club, today.

Shri Atul Bhatt, CMD RINL inaugurated a 3-day ‘Competency development’ program to Young Mangers of RINL going to be held from 21st to 23rd Feb.2022 at L&DC-conference hall. 

Addressing the RINL fraternity on the occasion of 40th Formation Day of RINL-VSP, Shri Atul Bhatt, CMD, RINL, Congratulated the outstanding performance employee award winners and said that, “In a step towards achieving continuous improvement, recently RINL has taken a pledge to accomplish success in all spheres. The award winners would serve as catalysts for promoting an innovative culture across the organization. On this auspicious and historic day, let us rededicate ourselves to take the company to higher horizons of Growth & Prosperity.”

RINL, Visakhapatnam Steel Plant celebrated the 73rd Republic Day with patriotic fervor in Ukkunagaram today. Sri Atul Bhatt, CMD, RINL unfurled the National Flag, took the salute and inspected the guard of honor accorded by the CISF Jawans, at the sprawling Trishna Grounds in the township. The function was conducted with a very limited gathering maintaining all Covid protocols and in virtual mode.  The live streaming of the function is arranged through social media facilitated by CC Department.

Team RINL-VSP won the All India Inter-Steel Chess Championship 2021-22 held under the aegis of Steel Plants Sports Board (SPSB) in Main Banquet Hall at Ukku House, Ukkunagaram, Visakhapatnam. Amidst the tough competition between 8 teams from different steel Plants, RINL-VSP won the Winner’s trophy by winning 12 match points and 19 board points. The runner’s trophy is won by Rourkela Steel Plant team. 

Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited-Visakhapatnam Steel Plant (RINL-VSP) won one “Par Excellence” award and two “Excellence” awards at the International Convention on Quality Control Circles (ICQCC-2021), organized by “Quality Circle Forum of India (QCFI)”, being held at Hyderabad from 24th  – 27th Nov, 2021.

A pledge was taken by RINL collective, administered by Shri Atul Bhatt, CMD,RINL to take RINL to Greater heights with renewed commitment in the challenging business environment today.

RINL, the corporate entity of Visakhapatnam Steel Plant joined the Nation in celebrating the “Father of the Nation” Mahatma Gandhi Jayanti in Ukkunagaram today with much enthusiasm.

Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited- Visakhapatnam Steel Plant is presented with the award of First Position under the category, ‘Manufacturing-Public-Mega’ at the 17th National Awards for excellence in Cost Management-2019 function conducted virtually by The Institute of Cost Accounts of India, today. This is in recognition of the RINL’s excellence  in Cost Management which is taking the firm to newer heights.

RINL-VSP is bestowed with ‘Rajbhasha Keerti Puraskar’-FIRST PRIZE for effective implementation of Official Language Hindi for the year 2020-21. Sri DK Mohanty, D(C) & D (P) Addl Charge, RINL, received the award from Sri Nityanand Rai,  Hon’ble Union Minister of State for Home Affairs, in the presence of Sri Amit Shah, Hon’ble Union Minister of Home Affairs and Co-operative on the occasion of National Hindi Day Celebrations at New Delhi today. 

Shri Atul Bhatt assumed charge as the CMD of RINL-Visakhapatnam Steel Plant today.  Sri Bhatt was earlier the Chairman and Managing Director of MECON Limited.

Sri Faggan Singh Kulaste, Hon’ble Union Minister of State for Steel & Rural Development, GOI visited Forged Wheel Plant of Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited in Rae Bareli, Uttar Pradesh today.

Independence Day Celebrated with Nationalistic zeal in Ukkunagaram. The RINL-Vizag Steel Plant today joined the Nation in celebrating the 75th  Independence Day with Nationalistic zeal in Ukkunagaram. Sri DK Mohanty, D(C)& CMD-Addl.Charge, RINL hoisted the National Flag, took the salute  accorded by the CISF Jawans at the Trishna Grounds in the Ukkunagaram.  

RINL Visakhapatnam Steel Plant organised a “Fit India Freedom Run2.0” as a part of “Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav celebrations”. 

Shri Deb Kalyan Mohanty, D(C) & CMD-Addl Charge, RINL- Visakhapatnam Steel Plant, inaugurated “The camp for Distribution of Assistive Devices to the Physically Handicapped Persons” as part of Corporate Environment Responsibility (CER) Initiative of RINL. 

Shri Dharmendra Pradhan, Hon’ble Minister of Petroleum and Natural gases and Steel, Govt. of India inaugurated the  Jumbo Covid Care Facility with 300 beds (Phase-1) out of the planned 1000 bed facility for treatment of Covid Patients at Gurajada Kalakshetram and Hostel-1 at RINL Vizag Steel today through virtual mode.

RINL,  the only shore based integrated Steel plant on the Eastern coast , having its own captive Oxygen plant primarily for the process of steel making, stands  with the Nation in its fight against the prevailing pandemic  and  has already supplied more than 9000 ton of LMO( Liquid Medial Oxygen )   since onset. Besieged with the crisis of supplying LMO to far flung places like Maharashtra , soon after when  the decision was made for transportation  by Indian Railways on 18th April , RINL  Collective sprung into action with active participation of Indian  Railways . Appreciating the urgency, the assessment of the Road& Rail logistics inside the plant, finalization Rail Track and the site for RORO facility was done on 18th April itself and a RAMP for facilitating Roll On -Roll Off  (RORO) services  was constructed within thirty hours. The First Oxygen Express from Maharashtra,  with 7  empty  cryogenic tankers having total carrying capacity of more than 100 Ton LMO , reached  at plant site on early hours at 4.00 AM on 22nd April ,21  at the newly built RAMP within the plant premises opposite new Wire Rod Mil-2. Out of seven tankers, four tankers were of 16 Ton capacity and three were of 14 ton. 

Sri PK Rath, CMD, RINL said that the Company registered a strong performance by recording the sales turnover of around Rs 18,000 crores, 2nd highest since inception during the just concluded 2020-21 financial year, representing an impressive growth of 13% and the sales volumes reached 4.45 Mt, with a growth of 4%. RINL registered a net profit of about Rs.740 Cr in the last 4 months. 

The employees of RINL-Visakhapatnam Steel Plant observed the 50th National Safety Day. To mark the occasion, a function was organized at Training Center auditorium of VSP today. The theme of 50th National Safety Day is, Learn from Disaster and Prepare for a Safer Future.

Team of six auditors from BVIPL have conducted audit of Environmental Management System EMS, Energy Management System EnMS and Occupational Health & safety management System OHSMS from 22.02.2021 to 27.02.2021. Earlier to current audit, recertification audit of Quality Management System QMS have been conducted during the month of December 2020.