Vol. 13, No. 3 July - September, 2005

Employee Communication Journal of Larsen & Toubro Limited - ECC Division From The Desk Of KVR

Dear ECC-ites, The second quarter results of 2005-06 Buildings & Factories saw the Company continuing its growth Sector ECC can look momentum in line with the objectives of forward to meeting Program LAKSHYA. comfortably, or even exceeding, the budgeted I am happy to inform you that ECC order booking target. has contributed in good measure to the gratifying results by securing orders to With our operations the tune of Rs.6,000 cr. during the six constantly expanding months ending September 2005. These geographically and in volume, we should would do well to sustain this spirit and included orders in the international rededicate ourselves to the basic values ensure successful journey of the Program. market (Middle East), which will give and principles we have always cherished. In our endeavour to become a global a boost to our efforts towards making System implementation, proper approvals organisation, Workmen Training is a L&T a truly global organisation. Our for sub-contracting and tendering, good significant factor as it would help create success in securing the Blast Furnace risk management and adherence to a work force of international standards order from Tata Steel against Chinese commitments are some of the areas which in respect of quality, productivity and competition has reconfirmed L&T’s call for our immediate attention. speed. Hence to supplement the efforts leadership position in steel projects in of L&T Construction Skills Training India, thanks to the concerted efforts of We have launched Program LAKSHYA Institute at Chennai and Mumbai, we IP&U Sector, ably supported by EDRC. effectively and progressed well on the are proposing to establish additional This is proof of our standing with communication module through one-day training centers in other regions as well. customers like Tata Steel and will help workshops held in all the Regions to carry We are also examining the possibility of consolidate our position in steel plants forward the message. The workshops, developing frontline supervisors through business. addressed by ECC’s senior executives, served to clarify the role of project similar efforts. Close on the heels of our bagging the managers, construction managers, With Diwali round the corner I take Bangalore International Airport Project, planning managers, and others in this opportunity to wish you and your ECC received a fillip to its efforts to implementing Program LAKSHYA. families a very Happy Diwali and convey establish itself in airport construction The feedback I received about the my best wishes for safe and successful with the orders for the Hyderabad participation in the LAKSHYA project execution. International Airport Project. With communication module and about the ECC being L1 in many Power commitment of the participants to K.V. Rangaswami Transmission & Distribution Projects, realizing the objectives of Program Member of the Board & together with bright prospects in the LAKSHYA has been encouraging. We Senior Vice-President (Operations), L&T

Pg.6 Pg.28 SITE INSIGHT PRAYAS NPCIL On A Super Pilgrimage To Nuclear Power Orbit Puttaparthy

Pg.18 Pg.30 ECC Pavilion Bags HRD News Best Stall Award At GETs’, PGETs’ Expo In Bhutan Induction WHAT’S WHAT’S ON

WHAT’S WHAT’S ON Pg.20 Pg.35 RECREATION Games Facilities Salute To Top Notchers, Inaugurated 2005: Take A Bow

2 July - September 2005 CORPORATE NEWS BMA’s ‘Management Man Of The Year’ Award For Mr. A.M. Naik

The Bombay Management Association (BMA), India’s premier management organisation, has conferred its prestigious ‘Management Man of the Year’ Award on Mr. A.M. Naik, our Chairman & Managing Director, in recognition of his extraordinary accomplishments in the corporate world. Mr. Naik received the award from Mr.Jagdish Capoor, Chairman, HDFC Bank and former RBI Governor, at a presentation ceremony in Mumbai on 26th July 2005.

The award jury took special note of Mr. Naik’s success in anchoring L&T’s thrust into high-end engineering and knowledge-based businesses, and his continuing efforts to re-engineer structures and processes to add substantial value in every phase of operation.

In his acceptance speech, Mr. Naik stated that L&T is the only company of its kind between Europe and Japan. “L&T, which is now in its 68th year, has paid dividends for 51 years, a distinction very few companies in India Mr. A. M Naik (left) receiving the Bombay Management can boast of. In none of these years was the dividend Association’s ‘Management Man of the Year’ Award from less than the preceding year. L&T is also India’s No.1 Mr. Jagdish Capoor in Mumbai capital goods manufacturer.” He added, “However, we will not rest on our laurels. While we are pursuing include the prestigious JRD Tata Corporate Leadership business growth in our core areas in India and abroad Award from the All India Management Association to fulfill our dream of becoming an Indian multinational, (AIMA); the ‘Executive of the Year Award 2004’ from we will continue to contribute to the building of a strong the Indian Association of Secretaries & Administrative nation.” Professionals (IASAP); and the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Excellence Award for Best Corporate Man This is yet another feather in the cap for Mr. A.M. Naik of the Decade from the New Delhi based Foundation of who has been the recipient of several awards. These Indian Industry & Economists (FIIE). L&T – India’s Superbrand L&T officially acquired the status and aura of a Business Superbrand. At a ‘Tributes Function’ in Mumbai on September 8, 2005, Mr. J.P. Nayak, Member of the Board & President (Machinery & Industrial Products), was presented a trophy by ‘Superbrands India’ - the Indian affiliate of a global body devoted to promote the discipline of branding. L&T is now part of an elite group of companies that have been acknowledged as brands that continuously and consistently keep pace with customer expectations. The award follows a rigorous selection process by an eminent brand council, which studied 854 brands in 82 product categories.

L&T now features in a prestige volume – the ‘Superbrands Book’. Two richly illustrated pages in this volume trace L&T’s unique history, and highlight its achievements and core brand values. L&T also has the Mr. J.P. Nayak (left), receives the Superbrands trophy from right to feature the ‘Superbrands’ logo in all its Mr. Praful Patel, Union Minister of State for Civil Aviation communication media – stationery, hoardings, etc.

July - September 2005 3 L&T: Country’s Most Admired Construction Company

L&T has notched up the No.1 position as order-book; well-placed to ride “India’s Most Admired the construction boom in the Construction West Asian region; able to win Company” in the orders at competitive rates in Construction World bidding without sacrificing 2005 survey. profitability.” Construction World is a premier construction Construction World’s in-house magazine that speaks team of researchers reached for the construction out to readers across 49 industry and chronicles cities in 14 states and its milestones and analysed/interpreted the landmarks. responses methodically. Respondents were asked The ‘most admired’ tag to name and rate the top arises out of a number of 10 companies on eight factors including the track parameters: Brand record of a company, Value, Corporate consistency of operations, Governance, Social the relationship that it Responsibility, Eco- maintains with various friendly and stakeholders, growth achieved, Customer-friendly quality of manpower, skill-sets Policies, Employee and technological superiority, Benefits and focus on HRD, extent of Welfare, Consistent diversification of operations, Growth, financial stability and Transparency in management quality. Along with Dealings, Quality these factors, since the survey was & Reliability. on construction companies, the focus was on execution strengths Factors like parameter scores / and engineering, procurement & weights and number of votes were used to arrive construction (EPC) capabilities. at the final tally, which ultimately decided the ratings. The survey indicated that most of the top 10 companies The survey focussed on key areas such as flexibility to have, at some point or the other, tied up with foreign adapt to change quickly and tackle market realities. The companies/institutions to propel themselves into the big survey findings reveal L&T’s strengths as: “Moves league or to introduce new technologies in the building aggressively to capitalise on track record and scale up process. In short, the survey indicated that to be Four Factors, The Driving Force successful, companies should: To Brand Building Ø Define a clear vision and delegate roles/ Speaking on the factors which have built brand value for L&T, responsibilities to people while ensuring Mr. K.V. Rangaswami, Member of the Board & Senior Vice- they work diligently and meet deadlines President (Operations) said, “There are four factors that drive Ø Bring in superior corporate governance us: Ø Adhere to the social responsibilities Ø customer focus expected of a company Ø our ability to identify with the customer’s needs Ø Ensure employee orientation Ø quality in construction, excellence in corporate Ø Safeguard the interests of shareholders governance and Ø Offer value to customers Ø quick response time on projects.” Ø Develop core competence in their field of work.

4 July - September 2005 HHL Memorial Lecture Series Launched: The Hindu’s N. Ram Provides The Curtain Raiser

If 4th of July rings a bell in the American mind as the Day of Independence (America’s Birthday), that celebrated day is equally dear to the heart of L&T-ites.

4th of July is the birth anniversary of Mr. Henning Holck- Larsen (HHL), co-founder of India’s leading engineering, construction and IT conglomerate L&T. It is two years since HHL, a doyen among industrialists, passed away at the ripe age of 96. His memory, however, lives on in the minds of thousands of past and present employees of this Indian Private Sector “navratna,” that is L&T, a legacy the legendary HHL has bequeathed to Indians.

4th of July this year (HHL’s 98th birth anniversary) witnessed a major corporate initiative from ECC with Mr. K.V. Rangaswami presenting a memento to Mr. N. Ram the launch of the Henning Holck-Larsen Memorial Lecture Series. It has been instituted to keep alive L&T’s Excerpts from media report on the address by Mr. Ram: eternal brand ambassadors, Holck-Larsen and Soren With coalition governments set to become a permanent Toubro! feature, especially at the Centre, the most important challenge ECC has in the past hosted lectures and presentations before the country is to ensure socio-political stability as stability by leaders, industry doyens, experts and professionals is essential since governments have a huge role to play in (including Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam and Dr. J.J. Irani shaping policy. among others) who have addressed the staff on topics Corruption “remains a chronic problem for India” and poses of vital interest. It was desired that henceforth these a major threat to political health and stability of the country. addresses be brought under the ambit of the Holck- There is a need for measures to tackle this problem, Larsen Memorial Lecture Series. It can start initially as particularly by laying emphasis on good practices. a quarterly initiative and rise to prominence as a public event that could be held once a year. This will hopefully Communalism is another threat to the country’s stability. provide long-term learning and enrich the knowledge of Despite having a secular Constitution, the country faces the younger generation of L&T-ites. communal conflicts, which should not be allowed. Similarly, stability is also under pressure due to separatist movements. Thus, the first Henning Holck-Larsen Lecture held at The other challenges facing the country include ensuring the ECC Convention Centre, Manapakkam, Chennai on social justice, gender equality and popularising education in th 4 July 2005, was delivered by Mr. N. Ram, Editor-in- rural areas. A reality check is necessary for all these issues. Chief of the Hindu Group of Publications, who spoke on “Some challenges before India”. Mr. Ram’s address Such a reality check is necessary to bridge the divide between was well attended by L&T veterans, media and ECC-ites. those dependent on the predominant agrarian economy and those in the upcoming services sector. The emphasis should be Mr. N. Ram, at the HHL Centre with Mr. C.R. Ramakrishnan and Mr. K.V. Rangaswami on manufacturing and job creation. “Let us not make a fetish of the new economy,” as otherwise the country will not be able to catch up with other nations without taking measures for broad based growth.

The late Mr. Holck-Larsen contributed to the modernisation and development of India and was a professional of integrity and meticulousness.

The function commenced with the welcome address by Mr. K.V. Rangaswami, Member of the Board & Senior Vice-President (Operations), L&T. He said the launch of the lecture series was a befitting tribute to the late Mr. Holck-Larsen.

July - September 2005 5 SITE INSIGHT ECC’s Excellence In Building TAPP Units-3&4 Helps Place NPCIL On A Super Nuclear Power Orbit

When India’s largest nuclear power reactor, Unit 4 of NPCIL’s Tarapur Atomic Power Plant (TAPP-4), went critical without a hitch on 6th March 2005, seven months ahead of schedule, the momentous event heralded the dawning of the country’s super nuclear power era in building reactors of more than 500MWe capacity. TAPP-4 and TAPP-3, the third unit of NPCIL at Tarapur which is also fast nearing completion, are both of 540MWe capacity.

L&T has played a major constructive role in executing several mega packages, valued at Rs.1,400 crores, for NPCIL’s TAPP-3&4 as follows:

Ø By ECC, L&T’s Construction Division – 1. Main Civil Works 2. Electrical Works TAPP units 3&4 under construction: an overview 3. Instrumentation 4. Primary Piping (civil works & erection) 5. Service Water Piping Thereafter ECC took over civil and structural work 6. HVAC commencing with the first pour of concrete, called the zero date, in March 2000, and signalling the start of Ø By other L&T Divisions – construction. 1. Primary Piping (supply) Mr. P. Niranjana, Sr. DGM (Nuclear) and Project 2. Supply of other Packages Manager at the TAPP site (now promoted as Zonal (incl. Calandria Endshields) Projects Manager-Hydel & Nuclear Sector, South & East TAPP-3&4 are situated on the beachhead of the Arabian Zones, Domestic), attributes the quality, safety and speed Sea, in Maharashtra’s Thane district. Tarapur, the nearest achieved at Tarapur to team work and modern town, is 100 km from Mumbai. The two new reactors construction methods. Stating that both NPCIL and are located adjacent to TAPP-1&2. (See box below) L&T-ECC worked as a single team with a common goal, he says, “Our aim was to complete this project within Excavation for TAPP-3&4 began in October 1998. The 50 months.” Having made significant contributions to foundation pit was 20 m deep and 60 m in diameter. the building of a dozen nuclear power plants in the

TAPP, TAPP 1&2 And Now Units 3&4

TAPP-1&2 were built by GE of the US in the 1960s; and connected to the grid in 1969. They have original capacity 210 MW each and are Light Water Reactors using enriched uranium as fuel, and light (or ordinary) water as both coolant and moderator. TAPP-3&4 are totally indigenous Pressurised Heavy Water Reactors (PHWRs) that use natural uranium as fuel, and heavy water as both moderator and coolant. Project cost of TAPP-3&4 has come down not only because of dip in interest rates but also as the project is being completed in five years, well head of schedule. Competitive bidding and design simplification further reduced cost. Power sharing: The states to benefit from the electricity generated by TAPP-3&4 are Maharashtra, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Goa and the Union Territories of Daman, Diu and Nagar Haveli. The Centre would keep options open to supply power to deficient states.

6 July - September 2005 The Core Group of Past & Present Team Leaders At NPCIL Site

P. Niranjana C.S. Seshadri Rajeev Kumar V.N. Gokhale K.S.R.K. Varma S.K. Chakraborty V. Sunderam

H.D. Kumta V. Anand N.P. Vardharajan K.G. Venkataraman R.B. Sharma C.K. Das Pradeep Khare

H. Hemant M.J. Kulkarni M. Veerasivam V. Srinivasan M. Shanmuganathan S.P. Varma country since the 70s, ECC demonstrated its capabilities primary piping and pumps for service water system, and in indigenous design, engineering and construction of HVAC system ahead of schedule. the India’s maiden twin 540MWe reactor nuclear power project at Tarapur, with emphasis on customer delight. L&T-ECC not only followed the beaten track, but also blazed new trails for jobs never-before done indigenously Salient features of the civil works comprised construction in a nuclear power plant... Impressive examples are hot of Reactor Buildings 3&4, Service Building, Control line washing system in the switchyard, gas insulated Building, Reactor Auxiliary Buildings 3&4, Jetty, switchyard and generation circuit breakers. Ventilation Stack, Overhead Water Tank and in-Plant Giant jobs comprised installation of eight diesel Roads. generators, and laying 3000 km of electrical cabling, a length that may well span the distance between Chennai ECC enabled NPCIL realise its aim of completing the and Srinagar! Reactor, the heart of the Plant, in 42 months. The Reactor Dome, critical for containment was constructed Calandria Endshields manufactured by L&T were shipped in 210 days. It entailed use of 250 t of prestressed steel out from its waterfront facility at Hazira and delivered and 700 t of structural steel support. Calandria Vault, within 24 hours – a staggering exercise in logistics. They the centrepiece of the Reactor Building, was executed in were unloaded at the jetty built by ECC at the beachhead 167 days as against tender duration of 200 days. Erection at Tarapur. of 3000 t structural steel was done in 90 days. Stainless More than 30 major improvements in the civil package steel liner supporting modules were erected within were successfully employed, salient among them being: 1.5 mm accuracy. The 100 metre tall Ventilation Stack was completed in only 60 days, employing slipform Ø threaded couplers for rebar jointing, a revolution in technique, as against 100 days. rebar splicing, resulted in avoiding congestion due to overlap, made the jointing simpler and faster, Mechanical milestones achieved included erection of facilitated less dowel lengths, even rebar flushing at heavy equipment and vessels such as steam generators the joint and overall economy due to elimination of weighing 182 t each, procurement and installation of lap length,

July - September 2005 7 Ø casting 7 m high columns in single lift, transferred, as the project neared completion). They Ø welding by SMAW machines and use of super heavy/ oversaw erection and installation of the intricate Primary special heavy (M60) concrete with micro silica, Piping (PP) and the Service Water System (SWS). Mr. H. Hemanth and Mr. R.B. Sharma are now Ø deployment of various Doka formwork systems, left- providing final additions to the PP and SWS packages. in shutters for parallel working, large and diverse concrete pours provided the edge for early job Primary Piping, a lump sum turnkey package, called for completion. 114 km length (410,000 inch dia) of piping which included 55,000 fittings, 18,000 valves, 78 km of SS Not the least was the massive mobilisation of men and tubing as well as innumerable heat exchangers, tanks/ material. State-of-the-art, high automation P&M took pressure vessels, instruments and miscellaneous the technology fast-forward, with batching and ice- equipment. Mock-ups for all critical activities were done. making plants for temperature controlled high strength All fabrication was carried out in closed shops and dust- concreting. free ambience for SS and Feeder fabrication. Full-scale Mr. C.S. Seshadri (CSS), Project Manager (Electrical mock-ups included 3D modelling of the Feeder pipes & Instrumentation), says that the Electrical Package is prior to installing. This was also the first time that the largest single direct order given on EPC contract in NPCIL vested the entire QA/QC aspects of PP on the India. He describes its scope as design, manufacture, contractor, which put an onerous responsibility on ECC supply, erection, testing and commissioning of the entire with regard to Quality Control and Assurance. electrical equipment and ancillaries for the TAPP Units Service Water System package, meant to draw and convey 3&4. It included turnkey installation of 400 kV and seawater for cooling through heat exchangers in the 220 kV gas-insulated switchgear, hotline washing system, reactor auxiliary and stationary auxiliary buildings for generator circuit breakers, transformers, DG sets and TAPP 3&4 as well as the main water pumps, comprised isolated bus ducts. While critical equipment was erection, testing and commissioning six 3,100m3/hour imported, major portion of the work was done inside pumps and installation of 3 km long 1,100 mm dia the reactor building, with utmost safety. underground pipeline in restricted tunnel space. It also called for upgradation of SS pipes connecting to heat Instrumentation closely linked to the Electrical Package exchangers and filtration area with non-corrosive CS consisted of supply and erection of over 8,700 field rubber-lined pipes to prevent direct contact of seawater instruments, 2,214 km length of cable laying, 150 km with its hi-chloride content. of SS tubing, 100 km of copper tubing, impulse piping, cable trays, UPS systems, battery chargers, control panels, Mr. C.K. Das, in charge of the erection, supply and and over 2300 junction boxes. Adds Mr. M. commissioning of AC and Ventilation systems for TAPP Shanmuganathan: “Special features of the 3&4, says that this is to date the largest HVAC Package Instrumentation Package include software development executed by ECC. Its scope comprised composite package for report generation of calibrated instruments as well of Air Conditioning, Chilled Water Plant (3050 TR as reconciliation statements, procurement of material capacity) and Ventilation (4 million m3/hour). from all over the country and abroad.”

The Electrical & Instrumentation team at site implemented several innovations in the areas of project documentation and inter-disciplinary training. The training dovetailed with quality and safety for staff/ workers, with evaluation by NPCIL personnel. Further, shop floor kaizens included lifting winch for erection of heavy cable tray supports, roller frames for handling them, movable welding platforms and submerged arc welding to speed up operating time by 5/6 times and in-house manufacture of 2 lakh lead rawlplugs for conduit work at one-fifth the suppliers’ cost.

In charge of the mechanical aspects was initially Mr. Rajeev Kumar and later Mr. Meeting a corporate social objective: Tree plantation on the roadside, bordering labour N.P. Varadharajan (both, since colony and a village

8 July - September 2005 Quality, Safety & Housekeeping: Quality was a no- resided at Boisar, the nearest railhead, where two well- compromise commitment shared and owned by every appointed mess facilities ensured quality food for most ECC-ite at site. Training programmes empowered of the ‘single’ and ‘forced’ bachelor staff. Recreation focussed teams with the best know-how. Strict vendor facilities for all were available in rooms above the mess. selection ensured highest quality standards, time and Social interaction among the families was encouraged cost reduction. Safety & Housekeeping, the watchwords largely through picnics and parties for ladies and children. at site, formed an integral part of project activity. Daily An annual outdoor get-together for the entire staff and pep talks and/or locker room safety advice, light keep- workers and their families was held thrice, as also summer fit exercise, height pass for workers who qualify to work camps, fairs and fetes for children. Such off-site activities at elevations, meticulous use of safety belt and PPE helped build an ambience of camaraderie and co- culture, safety inspections at site and auto housekeeping operation among colleagues irrespective of the package were some of the regular site practices followed by all, one was involved in. in addition to Safety Circles, contests and rewards. The site achieved 1 million safe manhours on several occasions. Adds Mr. S.P. Varma, Manager (Industrial Relations), who is also currently standing in for administrative ISO Certification and Appreciations: Lloyd’s Register functions (since the transfer of Mr. K.G. Venkataraman, Quality Assurance (LRQA) successfully audited the site who was in charge of Accounts and Admn.), “the welfare operations and accorded ISO recognition to ECC’s of the staff and workers has been a prime concern of the Nuclear Power Business Unit. Other laudable management team. In addition to housing, conveyance, achievements include Indian Concrete Institute’s canteen facility, children’s admission to TAPP schools, Outstanding Structure Award for Reactor Building medicare for employees, the ECC site never fell back in Containment (IC) and Dome; L&T-ECC Quality Rolling meeting its social responsibilities. Health camps for local Trophy (for 2002-03); and merit certificates from NPCIL villagers, road repairs, tree plantations and tanker supply for Calandria Endshields, successful Leak Rate Test of of potable water in acute summer were some of the Reactor Building in a single ‘go’, bonuses for meeting many amenities provided for the local populace; besides, early completion schedules and several citations for area development such as repair of school building, quality, safety and speed in project execution. supply of notebooks and sports kit to local school children and monetary assistance (with due employee Facilities for the Prime Movers: A well-appointed contributions) to ailing family members.” Such good labour colony located close to the site housed 4,000 of corporate citizenship earned the goodwill of all concerned the 6,000 workers at peak of operations. Its features ensuring successful pulling together at every level for were a spacious first aid and health check-up centre with project completion, with global benchmarking in all doctor and male nurse in attendance, round-the-clock respects. water supply, community mess and facilities for purchase of essentials, with dedicated supervisors to oversee safety, We profile here some of our colleagues who have hygiene and housekeeping. Most of the 300 odd staff contributed their mite to the project. ‘Powerful’ HVAC Specialist During his eight years in ECC Kamal Kumar Walia, a mechanical diploma engineer from KL Polytechnic, Roorkee, has been involved in the execution of four power projects – L&T’s captive power plant at Awarpur, Gujarat Industrial Power Corporation’s project in Surat, Khaparkheda Thermal Power Plant and, since November 2001, NPCIL-Tarapur. Of the four assignments he found the fast track Khaparkheda TPP project a challenging one in terms of work content and the local problems that were to be overcome. At Tarapur, after a stint of one month in the Piping Package, he moved to the Mr. K.K. Walia and family HVAC Package where he continues his good work and organisation. He has attended a Supervisory has the satisfaction of completing a 2,000 sq.m. duct in Development Programme at Panvel. He is a soccer fan one month’s time. With the exposure he has had to and had represented his college in football tournaments. HVAC works for about four years now , he would like to make a mark in this field and become a specialist. He continues to be in touch with the game by playing for ECC. On the academic front, he is presently pursuing A native of Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh, Walia joined ECC AMIE. Mrs. Walia is a postgraduate in English literature as a DET in 1997 and is happy to work for the and homemaker. The Walias have a 3½ year-old son.

July - September 2005 9 Engineer-Lawyer Couple

Raju Roy (RR), a graduate mechanical engineer from BITS-Mesra, has had a major exposure in ECC to thermal and nuclear power projects besides piping works – all of them in Mumbai Region. His first posting as a GET in July 1997 was at L&T-Awarpur’s captive power plant site. The following year he moved to Reliance Salgaocar Power Co.’s 2 × 46 MW power project. Then came a posting in 1999 at Mumbai Port Trust, Mahul where he was involved in the onshore piping project for Hyundai. His next two assignments took him first to Awarpur again, for a shutdown job in the cement plant, and then to the 2 × 210 MW Khaparkheda power project for boiler erection work. Since November 2001 RR has been at Tarapur as a member of the Primary Piping team.

During his eight-year stint in ECC, he had been able to get a good feel of our site operations, with special reference to planning and execution as well as costing (job cost reports). Like many of his colleagues who have had a long spell at NPCIL-Tarapur, RR feels working here has been a good learning experience for him. He has attended in-house training programmes on Construction Management (at ABRO) and Self-Development (Panvel).

RR’s parents are both teachers at Ranchi. He was an active sportsperson during his student days and had captained the college hockey team. On the personal front, he got married in January 2005. Mrs. Roy is an L.L.B. from Symbiosis University and works for an NGO – India Centre for Human Rights and Law, Mumbai – specialising in women’s rights. She has a tough time, commuting 100 km from Boisar to Mumbai but takes the daily grind in her stride. Mr. Raju Roy with his wife

Thoroughgoing Executor!

Hailing from Lucknow, Rupesh Mishra (RM) joined ECC as DET (Civil) in 1995 from the Institute of Engineering and Rural Technology, Allahabad.

Mishra was initially posted at Konkan Railway’s Savarde Tunnel Site near Chiplun in Maharashtra and served there for two years. This was followed by comparatively shorter stints during 1997-99 at L&T’s Heavy Engineering Workshop, Hazira for extension of the jetty, RIL-Patalganga for extension of the polymer crystallising plant and at the Chembur Flyover in Mumbai. In 2000 he was transferred to NPCIL-Tarapur to work in the Civil Package.

As one involved in project execution for over ten years, Mishra is of the opinion that the spirit of teamwork that pervades ECC is the secret of the organisation’s success. In view of the long tenure he has had at Tarapur and the high technology content of the civil package, Mishra believes the current NPCIL assignment to be his best so far. He has acquired specialised knowledge in the use of super-heavy concrete using iron shots (in reactor construction) and M-60 grade concrete for inner containment walls.

The training programme on concrete practices that he has attended has further enhanced his learning. When asked what has given him satisfaction at Tarapur, his response is spontaneous and yet modest in tone. He derives immense satisfaction from the success of his conscious efforts to minimise wastage of concrete. Mishra is married and has a 4½ year-old daughter. Mrs. Mishra, a graduate in Arts, manages the homefront. Mishra Mr. Mishra with his mother, wife & daughter is fond of listening to music, particularly the ghazals of Jagjit Singh.

10 July - September 2005 Avid Cricketer Who Bowls You Over!

Prashant Madhusudan Saraf (PMS) has been a witness to the dawning of an era of super nuclear power at NPCIL-Tarapur – since mobilisation of ECC operations in October 1999 to project culmination. He was part of the Civil Package team for the first two years and then moved to the Electrical Package where he continues to contribute his mite towards energising the Project’s Unit 3. A diploma holder in electrical engineering from the Government Polytechnic, Yeotmal, Maharashtra, PMS made his professional debut with Jyoti Limited in December 1984 and served the organisation for over ten years till July 1995, handling sales and service functions. The next ten years of his career, in ECC, starting 1995, took him to Usha Ispat-Redi, RIL-Hazira Mr. P.M. Saraf with his family (one month), L&T’s Nashik Glass Works, NPCIL-Kaiga, A native of Paratwada, Amaravati district, Maharashtra, Surat-Nandurbar railway electrification work and finally PMS is a cricket enthusiast and is passionate about the NPCIL-Tarapur, where he heads a team of three game even now. He has been a match-winning bowler supporting staff and 100 workmen. Compared to his at Tarapur in intra-ECC tournaments and against NPCIL. work in the previous company Saraf finds construction Mrs. Saraf is a post-graduate in statistics and B.Ed. Apart more challenging and satisfying. He has undergone from being an efficient homemaker, she gives tuitions in training in transmission lines and attended SDP at Panvel. all subjects for students upto 10th standard.

Erudite Diligence

P.S. Chakraborty (PSC) is keen on constantly updating his knowledge. Notwithstanding the hectic work schedule at sites, PSC has found time to complete the Level Two course conducted by the American Society for Nondestructive Testing (ASNT) and approved agencies to obtain a certificate in magnetic particle inspection which is highly valued. He would now like to undergo CEMA training and do a quality-related course under the Certification Scheme for Welding & Inspection Personnel, UK.

Joining ECC as a diploma engineer trainee (mechanical) in 1997 after passing out from the Ramakrishna Mission Shilpa Mandir, Belur Mutt-Howrah, PSC has worked in two hydel project sites - Tata-Bhivpuri and Tata-Khopoli as site engineer. He moved to NPCIL in January 2005 as part of the Serivce Water Package.

At ECC, PSC savours not only job satisfaction but also finds there is ample scope for on-the-job learning as well. While he has gained a fair insight into fabrication & erection, tendering, planning and execution, planning is of particular interest to him. He has attended SDP and a programme on fabrication techniques.

Mrs. Chakraborty is a BA (Education). She holds a PG degree in journalism and has worked with Business Standard for some time. The Chakrabortys have a 2½ year-old son. Mr. P.S. Chakraborty and family

July - September 2005 11 A Career Formed By Formwork

Raj Kumar Sharma (RKS), Technical Officer (Slipform), could probably claim to hold a record of sorts. In the last seventeen years of his service in ECC he has had just three site postings – Modi Cements-Raipur, NPCIL- Kaiga and NPCIL/BARC-Tarapur. Moreover, but for the initial two years at Modi Cements (1986-88) his entire experience has been in nuclear power project sites. Of the three locations, he has served the longest at Kaiga – from 1988 to 2000. He has spent the last five years at NPCIL-Tarapur and has just moved to BARC next door where ECC is executing Additional Waste Tank Facility and Spent Fuel Storage Facility.

A self-made man, RKS hails from Darbhanga Dist., Bihar. He is a QBE (one Qualified By Experience) and has come up in his career through sheer hard work and the urge to learn and hone his skills. Today he is Mr. R.K. Sharma with his family considered a specialist in slipform operations. He serves as faculty in training programmes for carpenters and has RKS is married and has two sons who are studying in assisted in recruitment of carpenters for overseas jobs. 11th and 5th standards.

Double-Site Accountant: Multi-tasking, ECC-style

Handling accounts concurrently at two sites is just a The other site he cherishes is the MSEB Power Project variant of multi-tasking at ECC. At Tarapur Mr. P.V. at Khaparkheda (1998-2000) near Nagpur where his Gore oversees accounts of three of ECC’s multi-package fluency in the local language helped bring aggrieved TAPP 3&4 project as well as the accounts at ECC’s parties on to the same platform for a meeting with local adjacent BARC Site. Indeed, at his very first posting in politicians to solve a vexing labour problem that was ECC (1992-94), he had handled accounts at both our delaying progress of work at site. HPCL and TATA-Trombay sites.

His current stint at TAPP site, since 2002, Gore says, is highly satisfying in terms of job enlargement as well as success in collection of payments, which is thanks not only to team work in client follow-up but also because NPCIL is a prompt paymaster.

Prior to joining ECC at MBRO in 1992, Gore (an M. Com from Nagpur University - 1979) learnt the practical aspects of accountancy during his first job with tea major Brooke Bond and then with a leading construction firm in Nagpur.

After 13 years in ECC, he looks back with pride on two Mr. P.V. Gore and family other sites that he has worked in. One is our Wadala In addition to M.Com., Gore has also passed ACS-Inter Flyover site (1994-97) located on a bustling Mumbai from the Institute of Company Secretaries. A member thoroughfare and open to public gaze. The project was since childhood of Yogabhyasi Mandal, a centre pioneered vulnerable to flash VIP visits and higher-ups from the by his grandfather, he keeps fit with yoga, wherever he city corporate as well as client’s side and our own is. hierarchy! Mrs. Gore, a graduate in Arts, left her job to give support One such visit was from the then MD & CEO Mr. S.D. to Mr. Gore as a housewife. Kulkarni who dropped in at 5 o’ clock one fine morning. The site’s preparedness for such eventualities impressed The Gores are blessed with a son who is completing SDK. B.E. in Computer Science.

12 July - September 2005 KALEIDOSCOPE Mr. M.V. Kotwal Joins UTI Bank ATM At ECC-HQ The L&T Board

Mr. M.V. Kotwal, Senior Vice- President (Operations), Heavy Engineering, was inducted into the Board of Directors of L&T as Executive Director on August 27, 2005. Joining L&T in 1968 as a Junior Engineer, Mr. Kotwal rose rapidly to assume positions of increasing responsibility in the Company’s specialised manufacturing facilities. He headed the Nuclear & Special Fabrication Shop in Powai, Mumbai, before taking charge of critical functions at Hazira. As Vice-President, Hazira Works, UTI Bank ATM for the exclusive use of L&T employees was Mr. Kotwal had contributed significantly to enhancing inaugurated by Mr. K.V. Rangaswami, Member of the Board the Company’s capabilities in manufacturing critical high- & Senior Vice-President (Operations) on September 9, 2005 at ECC-HQ, Chennai. end equipment. Mr. Kotwal has been closely associated with several apex bodies. He is Co-Chairman of the Confederation of New EPABX System Indian Industry’s National Committee on Defence and a member of the Vijay Kelkar Committee tasked with At HQ Complex advising the Government of India on restructuring defence production in the country. To cater to the growing communication needs at ECC-HQ, a new EPBAX system from Siemens - Elected Secy-Treasurer, IPA-Chennai HIPATH 4000 has been installed at HQ with six ISDN PRI (Primary Rate Access Interface) lines with Mr. S. Virapan, Engineering Manager, Building Utilities digital pipe of 30 channels, each of 64 kbps and Competency Cell was unanimously elected as the bandwidth. Secretary cum Treasurer of Indian Plumbing Association, Chennai Chapter at a meeting of its members on March Some of the salient features include; ISDN- 21, 2005 in Chennai. Integrated Services Digital Network - a power tool for providing different services viz., voice, data, image Blood Donation-cum-Dental Camp using existing telephone network, digital connectivity, data transfer, supplementary services like CLIP/ at Vessel Job Site, Vizag CLIR/CUG, video conferencing using 128 kbps.

ECC-ites at Vessel Job Site, Vizag in association with In addition to this ‘0’ dialing has been given to all Heavy Engineering Division of L&T and PRERNA L&T users to make local calls. All lines will work as direct Wives Welfare Organisation, organised a blood donation lines by prefixing 2252 to the respective extension and dental camp on September 24, 2005. The social numbers and need-based STD/ISD lines have been initiative had an overwhelming response with 173 blood provided. donors and 322 people attending the dental check up.

July - September 2005 13 BUSINESS MOSAIC KVR Launches L&T Concrete In Trichy, ECC’s 40th RMC Plant

L&T launched its 40th ready mix concrete plant in Trichy KVR further said, “In the next five years L&T is planning on June 19, 2005 to produce L&T Concrete for meeting to set up and operate 100 plants all over the country by the ever-increasing construction needs of the town and deeper penetration into the existing market as well as to its suburbs. spread their wings to other centres. Progressively more plants are being established in Tamil Nadu and the rest Inaugurating the 30 cu. m. per hour capacity plant at of the country.” Gundur village, Sembattu, 3 km off Trichy Airport, Mr. K.V. Rangaswami, Senior Vice-President Here’s Good News For (Operations), L&T said that “this is the 8th plant in Tamil Nadu and the fifth centre after Chennai, RMC Business Coimbatore, Madurai and Tirupur”. The use of ready mix concrete (RMC) in construction With this the total tally of L&T Concrete plants goes to of roads, bridges and buildings has recently been 40 and this is the maximum any single company has so made mandatory in Maharashtra for any large project far installed in India. Put together, L&T manufactures costing more than Rs.5 crore. This was mooted by and supplies two million cu. m. of RMC per annum. state-owned organisations. With a market share of 32% L&T has emerged as the market leader in RMC in India. It is good news for our RMC business. L&T recently launched its 40th RMC plant in Trichy to produce L&T Concrete for meeting the ever-increasing demand.

The main objective of making RMC mandatory is to ensure high performance concrete in terms of its perfect quality on account of right measured / balanced blending of cement with other ingredients like sand and other binding and water-proofing materials. This is possible with entire mechanised automated and computerised process of preparing RMC in batching plants.

For major construction projects, RMC batching plants are not only inevitable but also ideal as they ensure both quality and high speed of mixing. Besides it also proves cheaper when compared to conventional manual blending since it reduces manpower and Mr. K.V. Rangaswami, Senior Vice-President (Operations), eliminates wastage and damage. inagurating the RMC Plant in Trichy.

L&T Wins Rs.211 Crore Order To Re-build The Famed Kensington Oval In The West Indies

L&T has won an order valued over Rs.211 crore from WCB’s Facilities Development Manager, Miles Weekes, World Cup Barbados Inc. (WCB), West Indies, for the in explaining the selection, said that L&T has an re-construction of the famed Kensington Oval in “established reputation for delivering quality projects Barbados. L&T will have total responsibility for the within short timeframes as well as extensive experience construction and execution of the project and ensure in building structures of the type similar to Kensington that the rigorous specifications of the International Oval and other large concrete structures.” L&T has built Cricket Council (ICC) are met before the first ball is many landmark structures in India and abroad. It bowled at the historic stadium. The entire project is to includes the 40,000-seater Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in be completed in 16 months (by January 31, 2007). Chennai within 260 days. L&T has also demonstrated The entire scope of work has been split into several its ability in working internationally in Asia, Africa and packages to be handled by domestic sub-contractors the Middle East as well as in Indian Ocean Island under the overall responsibility of L&T. Nations.

14 July - September 2005 L&T Bags Contracts Worth Rs.1,550 Crore For Tata Steel Expansion

L&T and its international consortium partners have contract worth Rs.360 crore, for construction of a 2.3 bagged two major EPC (Engineer-Procure-Construct) million tonnes per annum capacity Sinter Plant to be contracts valued at Rs.1,550 crore for Tata Steel’s 2.4 built in 24 months. L&T’s share in this project is Rs.288 million tonne expansion project in Jamshedpur. crore. This prestigious order comes close on the heels of the L&T-Outokumpu consortium having successfully L&T will construct India’s biggest blast furnace — a constructed and commissioned an identical plant for Tata state-of-art 3,800 cu. m unit with a capacity of 2.5 Steel a few months ago in a record time of 19 months. million tonnes of steel per year. Valued at Rs.1,190 crore, L&T’s Construction Division will execute the contract The consortium partners of L&T — world leaders in in consortium with Paul Wurth Italia within a stringent their respective fields – bring in the latest technology in time frame of 32 months. L&T’s share in this project steel plant execution. Paul Wurth Italia (the merged entity will be Rs.713.90 crore. The order, incidentally, was of Paul Wurth of Luxembourg and SMS Demag of Italy) won against stiff competition from Chinese bidders. are Blast Furnace technology leaders in Europe. Outokumpu Technologies are pioneers in development L&T has also bagged, in partnership with Outokumpu of iron ore agglomeration technology and have over Technologies, Germany (formerly Lurgi Metallurgie), a 300 sinter plants worldwide to their credit.

BSS Delivers Lecture On “NDT On Concrete Structures” Dr. B. Sivarama Sarma, DGM & Head-Research & quality of construction. BSS also discussed the Indian Development, delivered a lecture on “NDT on Concrete code of practice which is similar to BS and ASTM Structures” under the auspices of methods. He stressed that it is essential to study the Indian Society for Non-Destructive non-destructive test results obtained through ultrasonic, Testing (ISNT), Chennai Chapter rebound hammer, potential difference techniques, etc. in on August 28, 2005. relation to other test data of partial destructive test methods like core samples extracted from the structure. The lecture covered the types of The lecture concluded that even though NDT of concrete concrete for different applications is in a nascent state when compared to NDT of metals, and methods of non-destructive it is the only means to understand the problems in evaluation of concrete. The concrete at green and hardened stages. A holistic Dr. B. Sivarama ultrasonic testing of concrete helps assessment of concrete structures by NDT methods Sarma in understanding the homogeneity requires a sound knowledge of structural engineering. of concrete and identifying defects The lecture was well received by the audience that in concrete on account of structural changes, shrinkage, included members of the Chapter, practising engineers, thermal cracks, and carbonation due to porosity or poor scientists, faculty from engineering colleges and students.

EDRC Engineer Attends International Technical Paper On Modern Advance Study Course In Germany Building Maintenance Systems

Mr. J.A. Solomon Charles, EDRC – Mr. S. Virappan and B&F, HQ, was one among 40 selected Mr. K. Parthiban, from around the world to attend the Engineering Managers, course on “Advanced Studies in presented a paper on Structural Engineering and CAE” at the “Modern Building 13th European Summer Academy 2005 Maintenance Systems” held in Bauhaus University, Weimar, organised by National Mr. K. Mr. J.A. Germany from 8th to 20th August Council for Cement and Mr. S. Solomon Charles Virappan Parthiban 2005.” He also presented his research Building Materials during topic on “Seismic Base Isolation on Non-Engineered April 26-27, 2005 in Chennai. The progamme was well Structures”. Research students from 23 different countries attended by participants from various government and attended the course. private sector organisations.

July - September 2005 15 Subansiri Rescue Act: Moving Aside A Mountain Slide

Close to midnight on August 7, 2005 a hill slide above mobilised for muck removal to locate the buried adit the adit to the surge chamber at ECC’s Lower Subansiri portal. Hydropower Project in Arunachal Pradesh left tunnel Local civil administration assisted in the rescue operations equipment – viz., excavator, concrete pump, hydraulic by deploying personnel from the Army, CISF and Indo- drill jumbo, shotcreting machine, transit mixers, DG Tibetan Border Police to maintain law and order among sets and ventilation fans along with cables, pipelines, air the more than 500 persons who had assembled on receiver tanks, etc. — buried under a 100 metre high hearing about the accident. hill mass. Fortunately, however, 14 of ECC’s staff and workers on night shift were safe but trapped in the adit Medical facilities were provided at NHPC hospital while tunnel where power supply too was cut off as the cable two ambulances were kept ready at the site along with had been severed by the landslide. ECC-ites trapped qualified medical personnel and paramedics. inside were Mr. P.D. Pressana Kumar, Tunnel Foreman, Amidst all this activity the families of L&T staff too Mr. Sadan Yadav, Supervisor, Mr. Pandi Raja, Excavator were in the forefront preparing food, tea, coffee and Operator, Mr. Srinath Singh, Electrician and ten casual snacks for the rescue team consisting of civil labourers of the tunnel rock supporting crew. administration, civil and paramilitary personnel. Shift engineers from nearby workstations rushed to the The sole mission of the rescue team was to open up the accident spot and made makeshift arrangements for the adit portal and ensure that the flow of air (oxygen) to restoration of power supply. The rescue operations the tunnel be restored immediately as the tunnel length commenced within 15 minutes of the accident. High was just about 40 metres and the entrapped air was capacity excavators, wheel loaders and dozers were inadequate for the 14 trapped persons.

Rescue Act with a fleet of P&M equipment in progress: moving aside a mountain of a landslide...

16 July - September 2005 Due to the limited area of 100m × 80m, approach ramps were developed for the heavy earthmoving machinery to work smoothly and hasten the muck removal operations. Surveyors with advanced surveying instruments gave continuous direction to the rescue team to pinpoint the exact location, while the safety engineers kept alerting the rescue team about any unsafe movements of men and machinery.

Parallel arrangements were being made to drive a hole to insert pipes into the tunnel through which air could be passed inside the tunnel using compressors. At around 1345 hours on August 8, it was informed to the rescue team they were only three meters away and nine meter high from the portal top. Immediately dozers were used to develop a berm (a narrow ledge or Rescued workers seen with the site team that toiled to save them shelf, as along the top or bottom of a slope) width sufficient for two dozers to work in tandem and 0.5 m deep and the people inside were called out of at the level so that any chances of slides from the loose the tunnel. The 14 workers, muddied but in good spirits, mass could be eliminated. hollered in joy as the rescue workers shovelled away the last chunk of earth, signalling the end of operation Guidance was sought from the top site management to around 1830 hrs. Immediate medical attention was make the final push towards the portal in inclined mode. provided to all and they were taken down to NHPC It was a risky attempt with chances of mass sliding but Hospital and Civil Hospital, Gogamukh for further with the sunlight diminishing and the rains resuming, treatment. the risk to rescue the workers needed to be taken. After sustained efforts for an hour, at around 1700 hours, the One of the rescued workers, electrician Srinath Singh, left edge of the portal concrete top was struck. The said: “We were all huddled together. All were silent except dozers pressed with full steam focused in that direction for one or two questions. We were mostly wondering so that the portal face could be exposed. about our fate.” Pradip Kumar Nath, another rescued worker, echoed him. “We were totally cut off, unable to With the second burst of heavy rain, the nullah above even hear what was going on outside. It was only around the surge chamber opened up and slush started flowing 12 pm today that we could faintly hear the sound of towards the portal thereby threatening to jeopardize the machines at work just outside the tunnel.” operations. Reviewing the precarious situation, the operations were speeded up to clear the portion of the J. Henry Robertson, Executive Director of the Subansiri portal just enough to let the workmen out. At around Basin of the National Hydro-Electric Power Corporation 1730 hours the face of the portal began to open up, (NHPC) said, “Work on the 2000 MW project would two excavators were deployed to cut out a trench to continue as usual. The accident will not hamper work. drain the water flowing from the nullah towards the It was a natural calamity over which we have no control. portal face. We are just happy that nobody was harmed.”

When the opening was wide enough a torch was used We salute all those who were involved in the rescue act to illuminate parts of the tunnel and see the conditions in this saga of human resilience, faith and team work, inside. The people inside acknowledged their well being working throughout the night and day spanning 19 by sounding a piece of rod to the rib. It was a moment continuous hours, fighting against all odds and of great relief to know everything was fine inside. The successfully coming out from the crisis. Herculean efforts of about 19 hours with removal of V.K. Nagyan, DGM (Projects) about 35,000 cu.m. of muck had begun to bear fruit. Rakesh Kumar Jha, Planning Engineer Finally at 1820 hrs the opening was about 1 m wide Subansiri Project Site

July - September 2005 17 AWARDS L&T-ECC Pavilion Bags Best Stall Award At Construction Expo In Bhutan

The L&T-ECC Pavilion at Construction Expo 2005 held at Changlimithang Stadium Ground, Thimpu, Bhutan was rated as “Excellent and Informative” and also won the Best Stall Award. The Expo provided an opportunity to more than 70 companies Inisde the ECC Pavilion: Prime representing the construction industry of Bhutan Minister of Bhutan H.E. Lyonpo and India to showcase their capabilities and exchange Sangay Ngedup releasing ECC’s ideas and technologies. Electronic Brochure

ECC’s stall, put up in an area of 36 sq.m., displayed photo panels highlighting the Division’s landmark projects executed for the Government of Bhutan as also their major projects in India and other countries. The Prime Minister of Bhutan, H.E. Lyonpo Sangay Ngedup, visited the stall and released the second version of ECC’s electronic brochure “Milestones of the Maestro.” He commended L&T’s quality and project A section of the L&T-ECC Pavilion management strengths.

IIBE Award for AJC Bose Road Flyover, Kolkata

The Indian Institution of Bridge Engineers (IIBE) has selected the Acharya Jagdish Chandra Bose (AJC) Road Flyover in Kolkata, built by ECC, for the 1st prize in Category-II, “Super Structure in RCC Steel or Ferrocement” under their 9th Most Outstanding Bridge National Awards. The flyover, connecting Park Circus gyratory in the East with Victoria Gate on the West, was completed on schedule in August 2003 in 29 months. One of the most critical and difficult aspects of the project involved the re-location of underground services in the middle of the road to vacant spaces on the sides to make way for construction of foundations.

At a length of 2.9 km including approaches, it is the longest flyover in the State of West Mr. Kalpanath Banerjee, Sector Projects Manager (TI), KKRO Bengal. Consisting and Mr. D. Datta, Project Manager, AJC Bose Road Flyover, of four lanes, this receiving the award from Mr. Chagan Bhujbal, Minister for PWD, flyover has two Maharashtra at IIBE’s award presentation ceremony held in separate Mumbai on August 5, 2005. carriageways, each 7.3 m wide and separated by Structural steel plate girders fabricated with an average architecturally depth of 1.5 m were designed for simple support spans designed, elegant ranging in length from 25 m to 33 m and continuous parapet walls. spans of 75 m. 45 m structural steel box girders were obligatory for spanning across 6 major intersections. The steel girders, columns and crossheads were Aeriel view of the AJC prefabricated, assembled on ground and erected using Bose Road Flyover in heavy lift cranes. Such construction techniques ensured Kolkatta high quality and speedy completion of the project.

18 July - September 2005 First ECC Veterans’ Reunion – An Enjoyable Soirée

would have surely heard of their contributions to the growth and development of this organisation which, thanks to their efforts, stands preeminent in construction in the country today.

Mr. K.G. Hariharan and Mr. K.V. Rangaswami Mr. K.V. Rangaswami welcomed the day’s guests of honour and their spouses. They profusely thanked them for their presence and traced their achievements. They hoped that From left to right: Mrs. Sharadha Ramakrishnan and Mrs. Maya the Veterans’ Reunion would Gaitonde inaugurating the Veterans’ Reunion function. Standing turn out to be an annual feature between them is Mrs. Kalyani Venkataraman and include other facilities for The success of any corporate entity is the result of the them. Some of the veterans Mr. K.G. Hariharan synergy of its prime movers - that is, its people, both who responded expressed their past and present. The awe, respect and affection that thanks for being invited to the get-together, walked a ECC-ites continue to have for their retired colleagues bit down memory lane and expressed their awe over the was epitomised in the Veterans’ Reunion that ECC stupendous growth of ECC over the foundations laid by them. They wished ECC-ites further growth and prosperity in the years ahead.

The veterans and their families were entertained to a variety programme of songs and dance by in-house talent and complemented by an excellent external orchestra team. Dinner followed.

Mr. K. Veeramani, Jt. Secretary of the Club, compered the entire function. The Club’s General Secretary Mr. M. Chandrasekaran who proposed the vote of thanks stated that the Club has created a corpus for holding the veterans’ get-together on an annual basis.

A section of the audience at the gathering

Recreation Club organised at HQ- Chennai on 5th August 2005. The event was the brainchild of the Club’s Vice- President Mr. K.G. Hariharan, EVP, L&T-ECC. It had the blessings of the ECC management, with senior-most staff participating in the proceedings. Among the retired veterans who had gathered for the reunion were Mr. C.R. Ramakrishnan, Dr. A. Ramakrishna, Mr. T.V. Kini, Mr. V.Y. Gaitonde, Mr. P.G. Ramakrishnan, Mr. M. Subramaniam, Mr. K.V. Nair and a host of other past masters whose names always ring a bell among present-day ECC-ites. Many of us may not have met the old-timers but Lady veterans who accompanied their husbands

July - September 2005 19 RECREATION Three New Games Facilities Inaugurated At ECC-HQ

A state-of-the-art floodlight outdoor games facility has been volleyball and basketball. Mr. K.V. Rangaswami, provided by ECC Recreation Club for the benefit of ECC-ites Mr. K. Venkataraman and Mr. K.G. Hariharan inaugurated the at HQ, Chennai. The well laid out courts are for tennis, new facilities on August 5, 2005.

Mr. K.V. Rangaswami seen wielding the racquet to mark the inauguration of the Tennis Court

Mr. K.G. Hariharan inaugurating the Volleyball Court

Mr. K. Venkataraman inaugurating the Basketball Court

20 July - September 2005 Cricket For A Cause... In Aid Of Cancer Institute

ECC lent a helping hand to the Cancer Institute, Chennai for its 20 Varai 20 Project (a unique way of selling 20-rupee coupons till they touch Rs.20 crore) by sending their super eleven players to participate in the Dr. Muthulakshmi Reddy Rolling Cup Tournament, a cricket carnival, organised by the Institute during September 10-11, 2005 at YMCA College Grounds, Chennai as a part of their fund-raising campaign. ECC’s super eleven reached the semifinals of this tournament in which fifteen corporate teams participated. ECC’s Super Eleven seen with well known Tamil movie star Surya RBS Tennis Ball Cricket Tournament Under Floodlights The RBS Floodlight Tennis Ball Cricket Tournament away compliments to all the participants while the man has become a regular feature in ECC Recreation Club’s of the match awards were sponsored by M/s Jacuar.Full sporting activities. The tournament has grown in credit and kudos to the organisers for conducting a popularity since its launch in 2004. This year there was tournament of this magnitude! an overwhelming response with 262 participants and 16 teams vying for the honours in this inter-departmental EDRC ‘A’ won all their league matches en route to the tie. Mr. G.D. Sharma, VP & Head-Human Resources, finals. In the first finals, they prevailed over Accounts & inaugurated the proceedings. Admin XI by 26 runs and in the second won by 8 wickets. Mr. Sirish and Mr. R. Jayaraj won the ‘Man of In all, 86 matches were played on league-cum-knockout the Match’ award in the first and second finals. basis, super twelve, quarterfinal, semifinal and best of Mr. Rajesh Bhagwan Kondle representing Corporate XI three finals. M/s. Astral were the sponsors and gave won the ‘Man of the Series’ award.

Members of the victorious EDRC ‘A’ eleven which lifted the RBS Tennis Ball Cricket Rolling Trophy

July - September 2005 21 SAFETY NEWS Technical Meet On “Engineered Formwork For Safety”

in the area of safety and formwork systems. He urged all sections of the industry to conform to relevant safety standards and improve their performance in occupational safety. Mr. P. Pannerselvam, Additional Chief Inspector of Factories, Govt of Tamilnadu, appreciated the efforts of L&T and SEA-INDIA in organizing such programs.

Proposing the vote of thanks, Mr. Selvanganapahthy, Safety Coordinator, ECC-HQ, outlined the efforts initiated by L&T in creating e-learning modules for training of staff and workmen on safety and said that all the Business Sectors as well as Safety Engineering Department of ECC were accredited with ISO 9001 – Quality Management Standards. He also brought out the ease of operation with L&T Formwork by citing the Dr. D. Viswanathan, Vice Chancellor, Anna University, delevering instance of concreting of Steam Turbine Deck at Dabhol the keynote address during the inaguration of the 4th Anniversary Power Project, weighing approx 1700 MT, to the utmost celebration of Safety Engineers Association. satisfaction of the Client M/s. Bechtel.

On the occasion of the 4th Anniversary Celebrations of Mr. M.G. Turakhia, Chief Engineering Manager – “Safety Engineers Association (SEA-INDIA)”, a Formwork Business unit, handled the presentation session Technical Meet on “Engineered Formwork for Safety” of the meet. was conducted at ECC-HQ, Chennai on August 6, 2005. Later the participants were taken to the Construction The meet focused on creating awareness among safety Skills Training Institute, where mock-ups of various L&T engineers and other members of the industry about the formwork systems were on display. They also visited the “world class system formwork” provided by L&T and facilities available in CSTI for training skilled workmen its advantages. It was attended by 130 members from in trades like Carpentry, Scaffolding, Electrician, various industries as well as the media. The participants Plumbing, Bar bending, etc. Finally they were taken to represented Refineries, Automobile, Chemical, Heavy the HHL Centre, which gave them an insight into L&T’s Engineering, Manufacturing, Construction and other operations and capabilities in various segments and sectors. The meet also served as a platform to educate milestone achievements. them on the inbuilt safety features of L&T Formwork, and its superiority over conventional formwork such as Acrow systems. Dr. M. Lakshmanan, President of Safety Engineers Association, inaugurating the programme, briefed the gathering about the growth of SEA-INDIA from a membership of seven to more than 250 in a short span of 4 years. Mr. K. Venkataraman, Executive Vice President, L&T-ECC, in his presidential address enlightened the participants about L&T Formwork, safety practices adopted in L&T and the functioning of Construction Skills Training Institute where a pool of skilled work force is being generated to meet the increasing demands of the Shri P. Pannerselvam, Additional Chief Inspector of Factories, lighting the lamp to construction industry. inagurate the 4th Anniversary celeberations of SEA-India. From L to R: Dr. M. Dr. D. Viswanathan, Vice-Chancellor, Lakshmanan, President-SEA-India, Mr. K. Venkataraman, Executive Vice President, Anna University, who was a special L&T-ECC, Dr. D. Viswanathan, Vice Chancellor, Anna University and invitee, commended the efforts of L&T Mr. S. Selvaganapathy, Safety Co-ordinator for ECC Division

22 July - September 2005 Regional Level Training Programmes On “Safety In Construction”

“Safety in Construction” programs are conducted at all regions covering staff upto senior officer cadre. These programs are in addition to the training programs organised by P&OD. In line with the target all staff members upto senior officer cadre in Regions will undergo the training by April 2006. See table Participants of the regional level safety training below. programme conducted at Chennai seen with Mr.

Participants of the regional level safety training programme conducted at Chennai seen with Mr. S.K. Ghosh, Mr. V.Balaji

Region Training Location No. of In Case Of held on Participants ABRO 18-19, Jul '05 Ahmedabad 23 Emergency (ICE) 22-23, Sep '05 Ahmedabad 24 In view of the recent bombings in BLRO 29-30, Apr '05 Bangalore 25 London and floods in Mumbai, 28-29, Sep '05 MRPL Site, Mangalore 20 there has been a tremendous push CNRO 1-2, Jul '05 Chennai 21 to launch the International “In Case 22-23, Aug '05 Coimbatore 45 23-24, Sep '05 NPCIL, Kudankulam 56 of Emergency” (ICE) campaign. DLRO 13-14, Apr '05 Delhi 78 People injured in these incidents 18-19, Jul '05 Delhi 68 were found in possession of cell 27-28, Jul '05 Panipat 34 phones. First responders used the HYRO 14-15, Jun '05 SALPG Site, Vizag 21 injured person’s cell phone to try 28-29, Jul '05 SALPG Site, Vizag 32 and locate a family member that they 18-19, Aug '05 Microsoft Site, Hyderabad 19 could notify on the injured persons’ 15-16, Sep '05 Konaseema Power Project 23 behalf. However, the rescuers found KKRO 4-5, Jul '05 Kolkata 16 it difficult to locate the appropriate 29-30, Jul '05 Kolkata 17 person, in the absence of any 19-20, Aug '05 VB Jharkhand Road Job 20 5-6, Sep '05 Guwahati 31 emergency contact numbers. Wireless subscribers are now being MBRO 6-7, Jun '05 Panvel Depot 33 asked by Public Safety Officials all 5-6, Jul '05 Panvel Depot 27 5-6, Sep '05 Mumbai 37 over the world to store the word 19-20, Aug '05 Mumbai 28 “ICE” in their wireless phone address book and store their next of Safety Engineers Association kin’s phone number. In the event of an emergency, this person would be Safety Engineers Association (SEA- • To interact with other profes- contacted quickly by ambulance and India) was formed in the year 2000 sional organisations hospital staff. It’s just that easy! under the Societies Act 1975, and • To get due recognition of the (Source: BBC News) is a registered Non-Governmental safety engineering professionals Please take a moment to programme Organisation representing safety by improving their image someone that you would like to be professionals in India. The key • To provide advice/guidance/help objectives of SEA-India are: contacted in case of an emergency to industries and safety into your cell phone with the word • To serve as a vital link for safety professionals “ICE”. Public Safety Officials engineers at national level • To assist statutory bodies in around the world will know what • To share the knowledge and formulating safety and related this means. Do not forget to do it experience legislations on your mobile first.

July - September 2005 23 Safety: Onward March And Best Site Contest Winners

Safety has always been an area of importance and priority Safety Trophy Scheme is a reflection of the concern all in ECC’s operations. Our performance on this front of us share for safety of all our personnel at sites and continues to show marked improvement as a result of workplace. the sustained efforts put in at all levels. The annual During 2004-05 accident frequency rate had come down to 0.44 against 0.59 in the previous year, accounting for 25.4% reduction, while the accident rate too showed a decline from 196.92 to 157.24 (20.2% reduction). The percentage of sites eligible for Zero Accident Merit Certificate went up from 51.5 to 52.8, an increase of 2.5. The winners of the Safety Trophy Scheme for 2004-05 are as shown in the box below:

Safest Region : Hyderabad Safest Major Job site : DHDT & HGU, IOCL, Panipat (Delhi Region) Safest Medium Job site : TN-01, Chennai-Tada Road Project (Chennai Region) Safest Small Job site : Operation & Maintenance KVR presenting the Safest Region Trophy bagged by Hyderabad Job – CHP, Paradip Region to Mr. N. Ramachandran, Regional Safety Co-ordinator. (Kolkata Region) Mr. S. Selvaganapathy, Safety Co-ordinator, ECC looks on.

KVR presenting the Safest Medium Job Site Trophy won by TN-01, KVR presenting the Safest Major Job Site Trophy won by DHDT Chennai-Tada Road Job Site to Mr. S.M. Ravi, Site Safety Co- & HGU, Panipat Site to Mr. Rakesh Ummat, Site Safety Co- ordinator and Mr. K.S. Reddy, Construction Manager. SSG and ordinator, and Mr. Sharad Kumar, Construction Manager. SSG Mr. V. Balaji, Regional Safety Co-ordinator are also seen. looks on.

SEA-India Fellowship For SSG

Mr. S. Selvaganapathy (SSG), Safety Coordinator, ECC-HQ, Chennai, has been conferred with the prestigious Fellowship of Safety Engineers Association (SEA-India) in acknowledgement of his significant contribution to the advancement of safety professionalism and his experience of more than 20 years in Occupational Safety. The Fellowship certificate was presented to him by Dr. D. Viswanathan, Vice-Chancellor, Anna University, during the Association’s 4th anniversary celebrations held on August 6, 2005.

24 July - September 2005 Sites’ Safety Roll Of Honour Congratulations to the following Sites on their achieving Two million and more Accident-Free Man-Hours

Diesel Hydrotreater (DHDT) & Hydrogen IITM Project Site, Chennai – Two Million Safe Generation Unit (HGU) Site, IOCL, Panipat – Manhours during July 2003 – March 2004 Twenty Two Million Safe Manhours during September 2002 – July 2005 Coke Drum System Package (CDSP), IOCL, Panipat – Three Million Safe Manhours during July 2003 – Qassim Cement Plant Site, Saudi Arabia – Three July 2005 Million Safe Manhours during December 2004 – July 2005 RMZ Millenia Project Site, Kandanchavadi – Two Million Safe Manhours during November 2004 – July Purified Terephthalic Acid (PTA) Plant Site, IOCL 2005 Panipat – Thirteen Million Safe Manhours during June 2004 – July 2005 E&M Works, MC1B Project – Three Million Safe Manhours during May 2002 – July 2005 RMZ Ecospace Phase I Project – Three Million Safe Manhours during February 2005 – August 2005 Allahabad Bypass Bridge Project – Three Million Safe Manhours during September 2003 – July 2005 Vessels Project Site, Visakhapatnam – Seven Million Safe Manhours during the period September 2000 – RMZ Futura Site, Hyderabad – Three Million Safe June 2005 Manhours during October 2003 – May 2005 NTPC Vindhyanagar Coal Handling Project-III HSBC Project, Hyderabad – Three Million Safe – Two Million Safe Manhours during March 2004 – Manhours during April 2005 – July 2005 July 2005 Intel SRR2 Project, Bangalore – Two Million Safe Vemagiri Power Project Site – Six Million Safe Manhours during February 2005 – August 2005 Manhours during December 2004 – August 2005 UB City Project, Bangalore – Two Million Safe Cyberabad Convention Centre – Two Million Manhours during February 2005 – August 2005 Safe Manhours during December 2004 – July 2005 Final Effluent Treatment Plant, Ankleshwar (BEAIL) Sahara Hospital Project Site, Lucknow – Four Million – Two Million Safe Manhours during July 2003 – Safe Manhours during June 2004 – July 2005 August 2005

IITM, Chennai Site receives “Safety Appreciation Certificate” Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (IITM), has awarded our IITM Chennai project site “Safety Appreciation Certificate” for completing two million safe man-hours during the construction of new hostel block between July 2004 to July 2005.

July - September 2005 25 Carried here are the impressions of prominent personalities about L&T and HHL Centre during their visit to ECC’s campus.

e are a “Exhibitio n is excellent and so fascin iswanathan, M.L.A, L ating” – Mr. Nido P . D. V ower Su bansiri D istrict, A avitra, ” – Dr 20, 2005, w runachal P radesh on A ugust 6, 2005 during ith his daughter . ugust “Excellent achievements – Country, Chennai, is proud on of A you. W developed nation as per your achievements Vice-Chancellor of Anna University his visit as a special invitee to 4th Anniversary Celebrations of Safety Engineers Association (SEA-India) held at ECC-HQ.

“Nation s are built by compan to ies like L&T. Excellen Mr. R. the creato rs o f L arsen t dedication & Toubro” – one of the d to the W orkshop on International A elegates in Construction Industry D rbitration oran evelopm gised by roduction Engineering Division) 27 ent C ouncil (C IDC ugust 24, 2005. , 2005 at E CC-HQ. ) on A ugust “Excellent display and achievements make India proud” Dayal, Chief General Manager (P and colleagues, Maruti Udyog Limited on A

. Izrail “A – Mr stu nning p resentatio n and exh ibition o company” wrote M r f a g reat . Terry H ill, C hairman of A “Very nice and memorable. It is very important for U.K. on Septem b rup G roup, osoft on September 9, 2005. er 9 , 20 05 history of constructionom Micr and engineering” Grinshteyn fr or CCD To-Do List F back oduce a feed To intr ECC News Readers’ Survey: Thank You Respondents ! column eater coverage To pr ovide gr work and Dear Readers, le, T eam for P eop HR f Thank you for your assessment of ECC News with your Among the various ance coverage o To enh s an d sites ready response to the questionnaire and your vast range suggestions we have, one is ts at r egion even tions of suggestions on how to make it more interesting and to make the journal a monthly tribu increase con bers To ily m em appealing. magazine. At an appropriate from fam r ore coverage fo d time we will consider the provide m orts an To nal, S p The feedback is very encouraging. We find that on two feasibility of making it a Recreatio Social activities parameters – namely, participation by family members bimonthly to start with. and coverage of events at Regions and domestic/overseas sites and offices – you would like us to do a lot more. In all this, our endeavour is to make We are only too eager to make up for this ‘shortfall’ and ECC News a truly interactive Employee would be happy to have a wider participation from you Communication Journal; one that would meet the and your family members. Do contribute articles of expectations and aspirations of all ECC-ites and their general interest, original crossword puzzles, quizzes and families in India and abroad. We look forward to your any other features that you believe would make good active contribution and continued co-operation in this material. effort. Do send in your contributions/feedback, preferably by email to [email protected] Also welcome are ‘Letters to the Editor’, a feature Wishing you all, happy reading; and with festive suggested by some of you, which we propose to greetings, introduce from the October-December 2005 issue. Contributions to this could be on people-related issues Yours sincerely, as well as on the contents of ECC News. Editorial Team

Legend FEEDBACK Good Adequate Inadequate Coverage of Corporate PRAYAS Events At HQ Matters Initiatives

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A Memorable, Blissful Pilgrimage To Puttaparthy

Twenty-seven members of PRAYAS experienced the highest bliss during their trip to Puttaparthy, during August 22-24. After a comfortable journey to Bangalore by Shatabdi Express, we took a bus to Puttaparthy.

The strict rules and discipline followed in the campus is truly amazing. Volunteers do the maintenance as a service, so the standard of cleanliness is very high. The spirit of universal love and deep spiritual feeling is palpable; and the sense of peace and tranquility that pervades the entire area infects the pilgrims too. Once this orderliness and obedience becomes ingrained in us through service, we can carry it to the outside world too, and do our mite for the upliftment of PRAYAS members, on a pilgrimage to Puttaparthy, seen in front of the Music College society. built by ECC

We visited the Chaitanya Jyoti – a marvellous building He traced for us the path our Medical Centre should constructed by ECC – which houses an exhibition of Sri follow while appreciating the service we are now Sathya Sai Baba’s birth, life and teachings. We then went rendering to the needy. He further told us that we should around the super specialty hospital. go to the rural areas, where medical facilities are meagre, and conduct medical camps for the benefit of the We were indeed fortunate to receive the blessings of Sri villagers. He also said that singing Bhajans is the easiest Sathya Sai Baba in person. We owe our gratitude to way to attain spiritual elevation. We have begun that Dr. A. Ramakrishna (AR), through whose good offices with immediate effect – Vishnu Sahasranama chanting we obtained this special darshan. was conducted at AR’s residence on 1st September. Mrs. Vasanthi Chandrasekhar explained the significance Baba had a message for each of us and was especially of this prayer. As per Baba’s advice, we plan to have eager to talk to the children who had come with us, bhajan, sloka recital and dissertations on a regular basis. about their plans for the future. We will never forget Baba’s compassionate look. We also visited their school for orphans, begun with a handful of children three years ago with Baba’s blessings. Diabetic-cum-BP Camp Today there are sixty children, the oldest being 15 years of age, and the youngest, three. The children with the A free Diabetic-cum-BP Camp was held help of volunteers who run the school have developed at the Prayas Medical Centre on a beautiful garden with flowering plants as well as August 13. This was initiated to vegetables. The maintenance of the school and utilise our lab facilities more surrounding area are entirely done up by the children. effectively and to cater to the needs We distributed sweets to the children. of the poor in the area. Forty patients were screened for blood sugar and blood pressure; We felt proud to belong to L&T-ECC, which has been patients requiring medical treatment were foremost in rendering service, constructing the structures prescribed the necessary treatment. A similar camp that Baba envisioned; we also felt humbled by Baba’s was held on the 24th September as well. By holding presence and the scale of His mission. With Baba’s such camps on a regular monthly basis, we hope to blessings, we now feel encouraged to go further in the create awareness among the people, so that they can service we can render to society. avail of the free service and thus know their health condition and take appropriate medication/precaution – Mrs. Gayathri Sundaresan as may be required. Member, PRAYAS – GS

28 July - September 2005 A view of the Sri Kailasanathar temple in Inset, left: A close- up view of the presiding ECC’s HQ Complex. deity – Lord Sri Kailasanathar. The Mandir in ECC’s Manapakkam Campus

Visitors to the outstanding corporate campus of ECC - The temple was consecrated on September 10, 2004 in HQ, Manapakkam – now have an added attraction, the presence of Mr. C.R. Ramakrishnan, former Jt. particularly if they are of the devout kind, in the form Managing Director, AR, KVR and others. of Sri Kailasanatha Swamy Temple. The temple is managed by the Sri Kailasanthar Charitable The temple lies in the Northwest corner of ECC Campus, Trust formed with Mr. Rangaswami as the Managing close to the rear entrance, and houses - in addition to Trustee and five others as Members of the Trust – the presiding deity Sri Kailasanathar (Lord Shiva) - Sri Mr. T.S. Venkatesan, Mr. S. Kanappan, Mr. M. Kamalambika (Parvathi), Vinayaka, Lakshminarayana and Chandrasekaran, Mr. B. Kumar and Mr. R. Srinivasan. Chandikeswara. In the earlier days this site housed the Efforts are on to register the Trust and to obtain 80G fabrication yard of ECC Workshops Limited (EWL), exemption. since shifted to Neervalur near Kancheepuram. Enquiries with the workmen of EWL revealed that in the course A purohit performs poojas on a daily basis in addition of some excavation work done more than a decade ago to special poojas on important days every month with they discovered a Siva Linga, believed to be centuries active participation from staff members who are making old, and placed it under a neem tree there. After this, voluntary contributions amounting to over Rs.14,000/- poojas were performed rather sporadically for the deity. per month. The first Maha Sivarathri since the temple’s In early 2004 when the area was being spruced up to consecration was celebrated on March 8, 2005 with turn it into a proper playground for the benefit of staff, devotion and nightlong prayers and with the participation the workers found the Linga entangled among shrubs of a large number of devotees both from within ECC under the neem tree and retrieved it. The matter was and the neighbourhood. The first anniversary was now brought to the notice of the Management with a celebrated on August 30, 2005 suggestion to have a temple built to house the Lord and May Lord Kailasanathar bless the L&T organisation, its name it Sri Kailasanathar Temple. Dr. A. Ramakrishna, staff and their members with health and prosperity! the then Deputy Managing Director, readily gave his consent to the proposal and saw to it that the R. Srinivasan construction work was taken up immediately. Sr. VP’s Office, ECC-HQ

July - September 2005 29 HRD NEWS GETs’ Induction Programme – 2005 ...

An Orientation Programme for Graduate Engineer Trainees on 1st July, 2005 from reputed engineering colleges (GET) – 2004 was conducted at Chennai during July 1–7, all over India. 2005. 150 Graduate Engineers in Civil, Mechanical, Electrical, Electronics & Communication, Instrumentation, Mr. K.V. Rangaswami, Senior Vice-President Plant & Machinery and Mining disciplines joined ECC family (Operations) & Member of the Board, L&T inaugurated the programme and addressed the Engineers in the presence of ECC’s top management.

Welcoming the young enthusiastic Engineers into the L&T fold, Mr. Rangaswami gave an overview of the Company’s history, growth, operations and financial status and various Operating Divisions, particularly ECC.

During the 6-day programme, ECC’s senior management interacted with the GETs and briefed them on ECC’s business operations and service units apart from sharing their rich experience. On 3rd July (Sunday) a sight-seeing tour to Mamallapuram was arranged for them through Tamil Nadu Tourism Development Corporation.

The programme concluded on 7th July with de- briefing by P&OD and a panel discussion. There Mr. K.V. Rangaswami delivering the inaugural address to the after the new recruits proceeded to their respective GETs of 2005 batch locations spread across the country. ... And PGETs’ Orientation Programme For the 73 Post Graduate Engineer Trainees (PGETs’) who perspective of EDRC operations through joined EDRC during 2005, an Orientation Programme was presentations by group heads apart from technical held at Chennai during August 1-9, 2005. Mr. K.P. sessions on Formwork, Safety, BUCC and Concrete Raghavan, VP & Head, Buildings & Factories Sector, Technology Cell and Behavioural Styles. The delivered the welcome address. New joinees in EDRC also programme concluded with a session on HR attended the programme. The programme gave an overall functions by P&OD.

30 July - September 2005 30 In-house Training Programmes

June 2005

Construction Methods at Bangalore. June 1-3. Participants: 27; Faculty (Int.): M/s. K. Senthilnathan, C.J. Balasubramanya, V. Sadasivam, T. Vijaya Kumar, B. Kondapalli, K. Senou Finishing Works at Konaseema Site, Hyderabad Region. June 2-3. Participants: 25; Faculty (Int.): M/s. Participants of the Supervisory Development Programme held at HQ, Chennai during M.G. Vasudevan, V. Satyaseelan June 6-11, 2005 seen with Mr. K.P. Raghavan, Mr. J. Bhattacharyya and Mr. T.M. Prabakaran Supervisory Development Safety, Health & Environment at Productivity Improvement in Programme at HQ. June 6-11. Vizag. June 14-15. Participants: 21; Construction Projects at Kolkata. Participants: 24; Faculty (Int.): M/s. Faculty (Int.): M/s. N. June 20-21. Participants: 23; Faculty T.M. Prabakaran, J. Bhattacharya, B. Ramachandran, P. Udayakumar, S. (Int.): M/s. S. K. Ranade, P.P. Srinivasan, Sugata Chaudhury, N.R. Elangovan, S. Maitra, J. Arun, S. Gandhi, G. Balasubramanian Vijay Venkatesh, P. Rengarajan Sathyanarayana, D. Dasadhikary, D. Faculty (Ext.): Dr. T. A. K. Singh Faculty (Ext.): Dr. A. Supervisory Development Sivasubramanian, Mr. Terence Nageswara Rao from Vizag Programme at New Delhi. June Shenoy from M/s. New Directions, 20-25. Participants: 26; Faculty Chennai, Mr. Arvind Chandhoke Construction Planning and (Int.): M/s. C. Jayakumar, from M/s. Phoenix HR Trainers & Control Systems at Kolkata. June Mohammad Saleem, S. Raghunath, Consultants (P) Ltd., Chennai, Prof. 16-17. Participants: 25; Faculty A. K. Vohra, Navneet Kaul, V.V. V. G. Krishnamurthy (Int.): M/s. D. Suresh Babu, A. N. Sivaprakas, Ajay Uppal, V. Safety in Construction Industry at Banerjee, N. Balasubramanian Jayachandran, S. Subramanian, P. Balakrishna, Ranjan Kumar Sahoo Mumbai. June 6-7. Participants: 33; Four Sessions on Health Faculty (Ext.): Mr. Ashok Kapoor Faculty (Int.): M/s. K. N. Sen, N. Awareness Through Naturopathy from Delhi, Mr. L. Bhaskaran from Kumar, P. K. Singh, Sudhir Kumar at Mumbai. June 20-24. Participants: DMRC, Delhi Effective Communication Skills at 88; Faculty (Ext.): Ms. Namrata Keswani, Dr. Rajesh Kolhe, Mr. Hyderabad. June 13-14. Participants: Trainers’ Programme for Site Devesh Keshwani, Mr. Bhuvanesh, 27; Faculty (Ext.): Dr. (Mrs.) Aruna Safety Personnel at Ahmedabad. from VIKALP (Social & Charitable Tijare from M/s. Excellence Trainers, June 21-22. Participants: 26; Faculty Trust), Mumbai Mumbai (Int.): Mr. K. N. Sen

Life Style Modification & Stress Management at HQ. June 23-24. Participants: 24; Faculty (Ext.): Dr. Rajesh Parekh from Mumbai

Safety in Transmission Lines at Bangalore. June 23-24. Participants: 19; Faculty (Int.): M/s. D. Subbiah, H. K. Murugan, G. Ragothaman, P. K. Singh

Effective Communication Skills at Mumbai. June 28-29. Participants: 25; Faculty (Ext.): Dr. (Mrs.) Aruna Participants of the Supervisory Development Programme held at Delhi during June 20- Tijare from M/s. Excellence Trainers, 25, 2005 seen with Mr. V.A.K. Shenoi and faculty Mumbai

July - September 2005 31 31 GET’s of 2005 batch who participated in the structured meet held at Hyderabad on July 12, 2005, seen with Mr. K.A. Shyam Sundar and other faculty members

Design Tips for Site Execution at Total 409 staff members were covered July 2005 Chennai. June 28-29. Participants: through Seventeen 1-day LLIP on 24; Faculty (Int.): M/s. CeMa Build 2 Programmes. Details Safety in Construction Industry at K. Senthilnathan, T. Vijaya Kumar, are: Chennai. July 1-2. Participants: 21; K. Bairagi, K. Hariharanath Faculty (Int.): M/s. V. Balaji, P.K. j Two Programmes at Delhi on June 16-17 Viswambharan, P. Mathivanan, S.M. One day Programme on Working Ravi, R.V. Sudhakar, S. Swamy Three Programmes at Hyderabad as a Team at HQ. June 28-29. j Nathan, A. Ramaiah, R. Rajkumar Participants: 26; Faculty (Ext.): on June 23-24 and July 22 Mr. A. L. Ravikanth from M/s. j Three Programmes at Ahmedabad Indirect Taxes for Technical Staff DIMENSIONS, Chennai on June 27-29 at Chennai. July 4-5. Participants: 15; Faculty (Int.): M/s. P. Two Programmes at Kolkata on Large Group Learning & j Purushotham, P.R. Subramaniyan, July 1-2 Interaction Programme (LLIP) on B. Prasannaraj, R. Anand

CeMa Build 2 j Two Programmes at Bangalore on July 5-6 Two Programmes on Safety in 1-day Large Group Learning & Construction Industry at Kolkata. Interaction Programme (LLIP) on j Two Programmes at Mumbai on th th July 4-5 and July 29-30 Participants: CeMa Build 2 was conducted in all 11 & 12 July 33; Faculty (Int.): M/s. R.N. the Regions. The objectives of the Three Programmes at Chennai on j Tripathy, R. P. Sakunia, Davinder programme were: 14th, 15th & 16th July Singh, Shuvendu Basu, Sujit Saha, l to make users aware about their Mr. Prashanta Bhaumik (PB) was the Partha Bagchi roles and responsibilities to operate faculty of the programme. I.S.D. Safety in Construction Industry at and get access to information team of HQ and Region extended Mumbai. July 4-5. Participants: 28; l to create a local resource for CeMa their faculty support for the Faculty (Int.): M/s. K.N. Sen, N. Build 2 operations and first hand programme through video/audio Kumar, P.K. Singh, J.H. Dattatraya helping. conferencing. Marketing Skills at HQ. July 12- 13. Participants: 23; Faculty (Ext.): Mr. Arvind Chandhoke from M/s. Phoenix HR Trainers & Consultants (P) Ltd., Chennai

System Formwork at Konaseema Power Project, Hyderabad Region. July 15-16 Participants: 22; Faculty (Int.): M/s. S. Natarajan, George Thomas

Participants of the In-house Programme on System Formwork held during July 15-16, Supervisory Development 2005 at Konaseema Power Project, Hyderabad Region seen with faculty Programme at Mumbai. July 18-23.

32 July - September 2005 Participants of the Supervisory Development Programme held at Mumbai during July 18-23, 2005 seen with Mr. S.N. Seth and faculty

Participants: 25; Faculty (Int.): M/s. Construction Projects atMr. Das Sidharatha from M/s. S.S. Mali, P. Niranjana, S.N. Seth, Hyderabad. July 20-21 Participants: AUDCO, Mr. T.S. Krishnan from P.P. Gandhi, S. Narayanan, R. 23; Faculty (Int.): M/s. S.K. Ranade, L&T Chiyoda, Mr. K.C. Sekar, Mr. Sridhar, P.K. Sasikumar, V. Arvindan, Suman Chanda, G. Balasubramanian Sajesh from M/s. ELGI Amit Ramjeevan Agrawal, D. Compressors, Mr. Guna Sekaran Effective Communication Skills at Vijayakumar, P.S. Suresha, S.V.L.N from M/s. Process Plant consultant, Ahmedabad. July 21-22. Prasad Varma, K.N. Sen, K. Mr. S.P. Raj from M/s. Jindal Pipes, Participants: 25; Faculty (Ext.): Dr. Ravichandran, A. Janakumar, R.V. Mr. E.P. Manoharan from M/s. (Mrs.) Aruna Tijare from M/s. Kadam from L&T Powa.i Faculty Kirloskar Ebara Pumps, Mr. Ashit Excellence Trainers, Mumbai (Ext.): Dr. Kirti Dave, Dr. Vandana Patel from M/s. Tube Products Bhat, Ms. Vinti Agrawal, Dr. (Mrs.) Training for Internal Auditor at Incorporate, Mr. B. J. Kuppu Swamy Aruna Tijare Kolkata. July 21-22. Participants: 31; from M/s. LLOYD Insulations Faculty (Int.): Mr. T.S.R. Bangarraju Safety in Construction Industry at Safety in Transmission Lines at Delhi. July 18-19. Participants: 68; Indirect Taxes for Technical Staff Kolkata. July 27-28. Participants: 24; Faculty (Int.): M/s. A.K. Tripathi, at Bangalore. July 22-23. Faculty (Int.): M/s. D. Subbiah, H. K.N. Sen, Uday Singh, V.K. Participants: 23; Faculty (Int.): M/s. K. Murugan, G. Ragothaman, R.N. Upadhyay, R.K. Dubey, Anoop P. Purushotham, P.R. Subramaniyan, Tripathy V. Venkatramanan Pandey Faculty (Ext.): Dr. S. Safety, Health & Environment at Mudgal Self Development (Series 1) at Vizag. July 28-29. Participants: 30; HQ. July 25-26. Participants: 30; Faculty (Int.): M/s. N. Rama- Supervisory Development Faculty (Ext.): Dr. T.A. Siva- chandran, P. Udayakumar, S. Programme at Chennai. July 18-23. subramaniam from Chennai and Mr. Elangovan, S. Maitra, D. Chandra Participants:26; Faculty (Int.): M/s. M.B.S. Sastry from Human Potential Sekhar, D. Dasadhikary, D.K. Singh S.K. Ghosh, A. Mohandas, K. Development Centre, Kolkata Faculty (Ext.): Dr. A. Nageswara Ramakrishnan, T.M. Prabakaran, Rao from Vizag C.J.A. Davidraj, D. Suresh Kumar, Safety in Construction Industry at P.K. Viswambharan, J. Joseph Panipat. July 26-27. Participants: 34; Amalraj, Ms. C. Niranjana, M/s. Faculty (Int.): M/s. A. K. Tripathi, August 2005 M.G. Vasudevan, S. Sunmugam, C. Dayanand Singh, P. Mathivanan, V. Subramanian, V. Balaji, R. Ganesh, K. Upadhyay, Anoop Pandey. Faculty On the Job Training on R. Nagarajan, R. Kanda Subburaj, (Ext.): Dr. S. Mudgal, Mr. S.K. Foundation Equipment at Delhi. K. Rajasekaran from L&T Ramboll Kaushik from IOCL August 1-2. Participants: 30; Faculty (Int.): M/s. Sathish Chandra Faculty(Ext.): Dr. T.A. Siva- Turnkey Execution of H. Shetty, Dipankar Nandi, subramaniam from Chennai, Mr. R. Hydrocarbon Projects at HQ. July T. Purushothaman, Faculty (Ext.): Prabakar from M/s. FYMC, Chennai 27-30. Participants: 17; Faculty Mr. Satyaki Maitra from M/s. Sugam (Int.): M/s. K. Balakrishnan, S. Effective Presentation Skills at Enterprises, Mr. S. Chakraborty from Balasundaran Faculty (Ext.): Dr. A. HQ. July 19-20. Participants: 23; M/s. Greaves Ltd. Faculty (Ext.): Mr. Kartik Vyas from Datta from M/s. Valdel, Mr. Sanjay M/s. Potential Unlimited, Mumbai Laturkar from M/s. Procon India, Contract Administration at HQ. Dr. Sundara Murthy from M/s. August 5. Participants: 23; Faculty Productivity Improvement in Kiryya Consultant, Mr. V. Sriram, (Int.): Mr. Malcolm Evans

July - September 2005 33 August 22-23. Participants: 31; Faculty (Int.): M/s. B. Srinivasan, D. Vijayakumar

User Awareness Programme on Equipment Safety at HQ. August 22-23. Participants: 22; Faculty (Int.): M/s. S. Selvaganapathy, U.K. Shrivastava, S. Naciappan, K. Gunasekaran, P.K. Ray. Faculty (Ext.): M/s. Telcon, M/s. Escorts, M/s. Shirke, M/s. Schwing Stetter, M/s. ACE Participants of the Supervisory Development Programme held at Hyderabad during August IR for Site Accountants & IR 22-27, 2005 seen with Mr. S. Ganguly, Mr. T.M. Prabakaran and faculty Personnel at Delhi. August 22-23. Indirect Taxes for Finance & Safety in Construction Industry at Participants: 26; Faculty (Int.): M/s. Accounts Staff at Delhi. August 5-6. Microsoft Site, Hyderabad Region. A. Mohandas, S. Ganapathy, K.V. Participants: 26; Faculty (Int.): M/s. August 18-19. Participants: 19; Mohan, C. Jayakumar, P.R. Kailaje, P.Purushotham, P.R. Subramaniyan, Faculty (Int.): M/s. N. U.K. Shrivastava Gadre Shailesh Shashikant, Manish Ramachandran, B.S. Anantha Vohra Murthy, G.C. Sangameswarappa, Supervisory Development Kumar Shailendra, S. John Edward Programme at Hyderabad. August Construction Management at Raj, C. Prasad, Umesh Chandra 22-27. Participants: 25; Faculty Bangalore. August 8-13. Participants: Swain, Pramod Kumar Behera (Int.): M/s. C.S. Sundaram, 26; Faculty (Int.): M/s. M.G. G. Venkob Rao, T.M. Prabakaran, Vasudevan, S. Natarajan, K.P. Safety in Construction Industry at U. Ramakrishna, Y.S. Srikanth, Sudheesh Kumar, Aravamudhan Mumbai. August 19-20. Participants: K. Vijaya Bhasker, S.K. Rajendran, Ramesh, K.R Ganesh, T.S. 28; Faculty (Int.): M/s. K.N. Sen, Chittaranjan Sahoo, P.Asoka Chandrasekaran, N.R. Vijay N. Kumar, P.K. Singh, M.K. Chandran, Ranjan Sengupta, Venkatesh, S. Srinivasan, N. Mahanta N. Ramachandran, Ms. T.S. Bhoothalingam, Kumar Shailendra, Safety in Construction Industry at Kowsalya, Mr. K. Balamurugan. N. Suresh, B.K. Nayak Faculty RMC, Coimbatore, Chennai Region. Faculty (Ext.): Mr. A.V.L. Narasimha (Ext.): Mr. Siraj from M/s. Institute August 22-23 Participants: 54; Rao from Hyderabad, Mr. K.S.S. of HRD, Bangalore Faculty (Int.): M/s. V. Balaji, S.K. Rau from Hyderabad Ghosh, S. Selvaganapathy, G.V. Indirect Taxes for Technical Staff Nageswara Raju, S. Swamy Nathan, Effective Communication Skills at at Chennai. August 12-13. R. Rajkumar Kolkata. August 23-24. Participants: Participants: 32; Faculty (Int.): M/s. 30; Faculty (Ext.): Dr. (Mrs.) Aruna P. Purushotham, P.R. Subramaniyan, Appreciation Programme on Tijare from M/s. Excellence Trainers, B. Prasannaraj, L. Ravi, R. Anand Finance Management at Mumbai. Mumbai

Mr. S.K. Mukhopadhyay, Chief Labour Commissioner of India(C). Ministry of Labour, Delhi, delivering the inaugural address at the In-house Programme on IR for Site Accountants and IR Personnel. He Participants of the In-house Programme on IR for Site Accountants and IR Personnel held appreciated ECC’s systematic handling of at New Delhi during August 22-23, 2005, seen with Mr. A. Mohandas, Mr. K.V.Mohan, grievance and seriousness in compliance of Mr. C. Jayakumar and faculty all applicable statutes.

34 July - September 2005 Mohit, s/o Bhola Singh, Anup, s/o P.K. Ramachandran, Construction Manager, Oberoi Technical Supervisor, Sahara Star Woods job site, Mumbai. Student: Site, Mumbai. Student: Apeejay Army School, Kirkee, Pune. School, Navi Mumbai. 91.4% in 93.4% in Class X-CBSE. Aim: Class X-CBSE. Aim: IIT-ian Bio-tech Engineer

Ganesh Shankar, s/o V. Bhavya, d/o Y. Rajagopala Rao, Sneha, d/o V. Hariharan, Asst Venkateswara Rao, Asst. Supervisor, VPGL job site, Manager – Accounts & Admin. Construction Manager, Cyber Vemagiri, Hyderabad. Student: Oberoi SPAS Site, Mumbai. Pearl Phase 1-B job site, Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya. Student: Apeejay School, Navi Hyderabad. Student: Bhashyam 93.4% in Class X-CBSE. Aim: Mumbai. 91.4% in Class X- Public School, Hyderabad. 97.6% Doctor CBSE. Aim: Doctor in Class X. Aim: IIT-ian

Gourab, s/o Nirmal Kumar Das, Divya Shankar, d/o V. Sudarsan, s/o R. Srinivasan, Tech. Officer, DDA – Bakkarwala Sivasankaran, Systems Manager, Executive Secreatary, Directors job site, New Delhi. Student: L&T Hochtief Seabird JV, Office-HQ. Student: P.S. Senior Delhi Public School, Dwarka. Karwar. Student: Chinmaya Secondary School, Chennai. 91.4 96% in Class X-CBSE. Aim: Vidyalaya, Kerala. 92% in Class % in Class X-CBSE. Aim: IIT- Aeronautical Engineer X-CBSE. Aim: Chartered ian Engineer Accountant

Payodh, s/o Pankaj Malhotra, Avinash Krishnan, s/o S. Aniruddh, s/o R. Ravi Kumar, DGM, EWL-Chennai. Student: Raghunath, ZPM, NZO Delhi. Manager, (FCCE) & Regional Bala Vidya Mandir, Chennai. Student: Chinmaya Vidyalaya, Resource Incharge, Bangalore. 95.2% in Class X-CBSE. Aim: Delhi. 92% in Class X-CBSE. Student: MES Kishore Kendra Engineer Aim: Engineer High School, Bangalore. 91.2% in Class X. Aim: Software Engineer

Priyadarshini, d/o B. Aravind, s/o S. Chandrasekaran, Sinchana, d/o H.N. Vinaykumar, Ramakrishnan, Asst. Accounts Executive Secretary, Global Eng. Construction Manager, MRPL- Manager, GIDC job site, Dahej. Services, HQ. Student: Prince ISOM Project, Mangalore. Student: Balalok Matric HSS, Matriculation HSS, Chennai. Student: Kendriya Vidyala Chennai. 94.36% in Class X. 91.63% in Class X. Aim: GITB, Mysore. 90.4% in Class Aim: Software Engineer Architect X-CBSE. Aim: Biotech Engineer

Peeyush Kumar, s/o Ram Jee, Abhishek, s/o A.K. Chugh, Prathyusha, d/o S. Mohan, Asst. Construction Manager, NIB ZBDM, NZO Delhi. Student: Construction Manager, Cyber Noida job site. Student: Mayur Summer Fields School, Delhi. Park job site, Bangalore. Student: Public School, Delhi. 93.8% in 91.6% in Class X-CBSE. Aim: Dwaraka High School, Class X-CBSE. Aim: IIT-ian Engineer Hyderabad. 89.67% in Class X. Aim: Software Engineer

July - September 2005 35 35 Shruthi, d/o R. Jayakumar, Divya, d/o P. Mohanan Nair, Sushant, s/o A.B. Hadambar, DGM (Insurance), HQ. Student: Technical Supervisor, RMZ ECO Executive (Time office), RMC Bala Vidya Mandir, Chennai. Space Project, Bangalore. Pune. Student: Abhinava 89.2% in Class X-CBSE. Aim: Student: St. Joseph High School, Vidyalaya Eng. Med. High Research Scholar Whitefield. 87.84% in Class X. School, Pune. 85.46% in Aim: Doctor Class X. Aim: Computer Engineer

Tapan, s/o S.S. Borkar, Divisional Samriddhi, d/o Hemanta Nagesh, s/o K. Basappa, Quarry Risk Officer, HQ. Student: Arya Kumar Mandal, Engineering Manager, MBRO. Student: St. Vidya Mandir, Juhu, Mumbai. Manager, EDRC-KKRO. Joseph High School, Karwar. 89% in Class X. Aim: Student: Nava Nalanda High 85.29% in Class X. Aim: Aeronautics Engineer School, Kolkata. 87.5% in Engineer Class X. Aim: Engineer

Joel, s/o Jesudoss Asirvatham, Vidhya Predha, d/o Tanika, d/o Davinder Singh, DGM (FECC), HQ. Student: K.Parthiban, Manager – AOB RPLM, KKRO. Student: St. S.B.O.A Hr. Sec. School, Chennai. Civil Maintenance, HQ. Mary’s High School Dahanu. 88.81% in Class X. Aim: Student: S.B.O.A School and 85.20% in Class X. Aim: CA Engineer Junior College, Chennai. 87.4% in Class X-CBSE. Aim: Doctor

Preethi, d/o B. Pichaimurthy, Nitin, s/o G. Gopi, Sr. Secretary, Meyyammai, d/o L. Executive-Purchase, HQ. RM’s Office-MBRO. Student: Chidambaram, Draughtsman, Student: Prince Matriculation Lok Puram Public School, Thane. EDRC-HQ. Student: School, Chennai. 88.72% in 86.8% in Class X-CBSE. Aim: G.K.S.H.V.M.H.S. School, Class X. Aim: Biotech Engineer Sports Physiotherapist Chennai. 84.81% in Class X. Aim: Engineer

Vaidyanathan, s/o N. Bhavani, d/o V.V. Rao, Resident Vivek, s/o G.V. Narasimha, Sector Ramasethu, DGM (WET), HQ. Engineer, VIWSCO Projects Manager, BLRO. Student: Modern Sr. Sec. School, Rajahmundry. Student: Student: Chinmaya Vidyalaya, Chennai. 88.60% in Class X- Montessori Public School. 86% in Hyderabad. 84.8% in Class X- CBSE. Aim: Engineer Class X. Aim: Engineer CBSE. Aim: Engineer

Alam Arah, d/o M.M. Ansari, Mithun, s/o T. Appukuttan Nair, Justin Remigius, s/o D. Selister, Technical Supervisor, Asst. Officer, SSC-HQ Accounts. Tower Crane Operator, Al- Chacharwadi Depot, ABRO. Student: Bharatiya Vidya Jazeera Tower Project, Doha, Student: L&T DAV Public Bhavan Public School, Qatar. Student: Don Bosco Hr. School, Kovaya. 88.60% in Class Hyderabad. 86% in Class X- Sec. School, Perur. 84.6% in X-CBSE. Aim: Doctor CBSE. Aim: Pilot Class X. Aim: Engineer

Vignesh, s/o S. Anantha Paromita, d/o P.K. Banerjee, Akkriti Vachhani, d/o Satish R. Subramanian, Regional Accounts Manager (QA), Student: Sri Vachhani, Manager, RMC MGB & Admin. Manager, KKRO. Sankara Sr. Sec. School, Chennai. – Delhi, Student: A.S.N. Sr. Sec Student: Sri Kumaran Children 86% in Class X-CBSE. Aim: School, Delhi. 84.2% in Class X- Home School, Bangalore. 88.40% Nuclear Physicist CBSE. Aim: Fashion Designer in Class X-CBSE. Aim: IIT-ian

3636 July - September 2005 Latha, d/o T.S. Vishnupathy, Vinoth Kumar, s/o S. Vaidya- Madhura, d/o Sabyasachi Sarkar, Carpentry Foreman, Venkat nathan, General Foreman-P&M, DGM (BMH), HQ. Student: PS International School job site, SSSWSP-Katheru, Rajamundry Senior. Sec School, Chennai. 81% Bangalore. Student: J.G. job site. Student: Velammal in Class X-CBSE. Aim: Doctor National HSS, Chennai. 84.8% M.H.S.School, Chennai. 83.09% in Class X-CBSE. Aim: Doctor in Class X. Aim: Pilot

Jayeeta, d/o Jay Krishna Ghosh, Anukriti, d/o A.P. Singh, Asst. Priyanka Singh, d/o Chandra Asst. Eng. Manager, EDRC- Construction Manager, Sahara Bhushan Kumar, Sr. Engineer, B- Kolkata. Student: The Future Grace Project, Gurgaon. Student: L Road Project, Orissa. Student: Foundation School, Kolkata. Sherwood Convent School, Bidhan School, Durgapur. 81% 84.16% in Class X. Aim: Gurgaon. 83% in Class X- in Class X. Aim: Higher studies Teacher CBSE. Aim: Doctor in medical science

Ritesh Kumar, s/o Uday Chand Kapil, s/o Bhushan Chand Tejeshwar, s/o Pinjala Hati, Asst. Const. Manager, Mehta, Officer (A.C.M), IOCL Chakradhara Rao, Asst. Const. Magadi Pure Ash Project, Kenya. Panipat. Student: St. Theresa’s Manager, Lafarge-Surma Student: Kendriya Vidyalaya, Convent School, Karnal. 82.60% Cement Plant, Bangladesh. Mankhurd. 84% in Class X- in Class X-CBSE. Aim: Doctor Student: Kendriya Vidyalaya, CBSE. Aim: Doctor Balasore. 81% in Class X-CBSE. Aim: Software Engineer

Venkatakrisnaa, s/o R. Adith, s/o Ashok Shenoy Padav, Sivasubramanian, s/o C. Rajagopalan, Accounts Construction Manager, RMZ Manoharan, Sr. Admin Executive, L&T (Oman) LLC. Ecospace Project. Student: Venkat Supervisor, HQ. Student: Student: Amrita Vidyalayam, International Public School, Swamy’s Mat. H.S.S, Chennai. Chennai. 83.60% in Class X- Bangalore. 82.20% in Class X- 81% in Class X. Aim: CA CBSE. Aim: Engineer CBSE. Aim: Electronics Engineer

Karthik, s/o P.S. Narayanan, Sweta Kumari, d/o Sukhcharan Shweta, d/o S.D. Dalvi, Tech. Construction Manager, Area Bhagat, Technical Assitant, Commercial Officer. Panvel. office, L&T (Saudi Arabia) Panvel Complex. Student: Student: Holy Cross Convent, LLC. Student: Sri Vidya Sec. P.R.I.A School, Mohapada. . Kalyan (W). 80.66% in Class School, Hyderabad. 83.80% in 82.13% in Class X. Aim: IAS X. Aim: Doctor Class X-CBSE. Aim: Aeronautics Engineer

Karthika, d/o Ravi Gopal Nair, Prabhat Shukla, s/o Krishna Divya, d/o R.K. Verma, Asst. Sr. Officer (Admin), L&T Nand, SR. Engineer, SIDBI job Const. Manager, Bio-tech centre (Dubai). Student: Sardar Dastur site, BKC, Mumbai. Student: job site, New Delhi. Student: Blue Nosherwan Girls School. 83.46% Rahul Vidya Niketan, Bhayander Bells Model Sr. Sec School, in Class X. (East). 81.73% in Class X. Aim: Gurgaon. 80.33% in Class X- Doctor CBSE. Aim: IIT-ian

Vivek, s/o T.K. Praseed, Asst. Raghavendra Varma, s/o Soumyadeep, s/o S.K. Const. Manager (Elec), ABMH- A.S.R.K.V Raju, Asst. Const. Chakraborty, Project Manager, Pune job site. Student: Utkarsh Manager, L&T (Oman), LLC. APDRP Indore. Student: Bidya Vidyalaya, Baroda. 83.43% in Student: Swamy’s Mat. H.SS, Bhaban HSS, Kolkata. 80.12% Class X. Aim: Scientist Chennai. 81.45% in Class X. in Class X. Aim: CA Aim: Commercial Pilot

July - September 2005 37 37 Hari Tops Achievers List With 97.16%

Topping the list of included recreational activities too, since they are vital stress our 2005 Class relievers. His performance in cycle tests and exams, closely XII academic monitored by his class teacher, was consistent. His father’s achievers with role included waking him up early mornings (normally 3.30 97.16% is Hari a.m.) and keeping him company while he studied. His mother Prasath. Son of Mr. B. Murugesan, Manager, ensured that he was hale and healthy with special dietary FCCE, HQ. supplements.

Hari is a product of Balalok Matriculation He attended tuitions regularly and missed no tests. He Higher Secondary School, Chennai. Securing answered many model papers set by his uncle to improve his an astounding 99.4% marks in the Science speed and handwriting, which according to him are the key subjects – viz., 100% in Physics, 99% in factors for a student to score high marks. Chemistry, 99% in Computer Science and 99.5% on Mathematics — he aggregates 1166 marks out of 1200, with The young lad’s aim now is to become a Mechanical Engineer 93.5% in Tamil and 92% in English. and do his higher studies in Germany. He completed the basic course in German language when he was in Plus-one Hari’s parents were confident that their son would be a top- and is at present doing the second level course. notcher as he had been a bright student right from childhood. Hari himself attributes his success to the conducive atmosphere ECC news congratulates Hari and salutes his family and for learning his parents and teachers created for him. He teachers for their dedicated efforts in enabling him achieve planned his studies two months before the start of the session. the best results. He prepared the schedule in consultation with his teachers. It

Anjana, d/o M.A. Ashok, Sr. Sandhya, d/o S. Sivakumar, Sr. Feroz Basha, s/o K. Faruk Basha, DGM (Infra), HQ. Student: Manager (Personnel), EWL Sr. Engineer (P&M), TLT- Jawahar Higher Secondary Fabrication Shop, Kancheepuram. Pondy. Student: MLM School, Chennai. 96.83% in Student: Zion Mat. HSS, Mamallan Mat. HSS, Class XII. Aim: Architect Chennai. 94.91% in Class XII. Kancheepuram. 91.66% in Class Aim: Computer Engineer XII. Aim: Graduate in Electronics

Saiva Geethi, d/o N. Sayantan, s/o S. Datta Gupta, Charanya, d/o S. Rajasekaran, Markandeyulu, DGM (Crusher Sr. DGM (GES), HQ. Student: Sr. Graphics Designer, Vizag Operations), HQ. Student: Petit Seminare Mat. HSS, Pondy. Vessel Project. Student: SBOA King’s Mat. HSS. Chennai. . 94.33% in Class XII. Aim: Mat. HSS, Chennai. 91.33% in 96.25% in Class XII. Aim: NASA Scientist Class XII. Aim: Electronic Social Service Engineer

Radhika, d/o Shekhar Murthy, Sandeep Jaganath, s/o M. Abilash, s/o N.R.R. Kanna, DGM (EI&C), HQ. Student: Shyam Sundar, Sector Project Const. Manager, Kollegal St. Michaels Academy HSS, Manager (B&F), Muscat office. Substation. Student: Tagore Chennai. 95.75% in Class XII. Student: DAV Boys Sr. Sec. Vidyalaya Mat. HSS, Madurai. Aim: Architect School, Chennai. 94.2 % in Class 91.25% in Class XII. Aim: XII-CBSE. Aim: Engineer Communication Technologist

Yadhunandan, s/o T.M. Sukleshwaran, s/o D. Kalpana, d/o M. Ravikumar, Prabakaran, DGM (P&OD), Maheswaran, DGM (Designs), General Foreman, NPC HQ. Student: DAV Mat. HSS, HQ. Student: Our Angels Mat. Kudankulam job site. Student: Chennai. 95.67% in Class XII. HSS. Chennai. 93.91% in Class Govt. Girls HSS Tiruttani. Aim: Engineer XII. Aim: Engineer 91.17% in Class XII. Aim: Software Engineer

Maheshwar, s/o B. Swadita, d/o R. Dinakar, Project Muthukumaran, s/o B. Ramakrishnan, Head – Finance, Manager, Viwsco job site. Prasannaraj, Asst. Manager, Accts & Admin, HQ. Student: Rajahmundry. Student: SBOA Indirect Taxes, HQ. Student: T.I. SBOA Mat. HSS, Chennai. Mat. HSS, Chennai. 93.58% in Mat. HSS, Chennai. 91% in 95.16% in Class XII. Aim: Class XII. Aim: Doctor Class XII. Aim: Engineer Doctor / Bio-technologist

3838 July - September 2005 Harish, s/o A. Beemaraj, Bipasha, d/o Mrs. Kaberi Maity, Yogesh Kumar, d/o K. Mahipal Technical Officer. R&D job site, Sr. Secretary, EDRC-Kolkata. Singh, Construction Manager, HQ. Student: St. Johns Mat. Student: Carmel High School, CSEB Baramkel TL project. HSS, Chennai. 90.83% in Class Kolkata. 87% in Class XII. Now Student: Zion Hr. Sec. School, XII. Aim: Software Engineer doing B.Sc with Economics. Chennai. 83.75% in Class XII. Aim: Electrical & Electronics Engineer

Priyanka, d/o Awadh Vashishta, Ramesh, s/o T. Chandra- Arya Das, d/o P. Haridas, Chief Operating Officer, HITEX sekharan, Executive (IR), Manager (Stores), IOCL Exhibition Centre, Hyderabad. UPSRP-2, New Delhi. Student: Panipat job site. Student: Sacred Student: Villa Marie College, Vivekananda HSS, Pondy. Heart Higher Secondary School, Hyderabad. 90% in Class XII. 86.83% in Class XII. Aim: Changanacherry. 83.66% in Aim: IAS Engineer Class XII. Aim: Computer Engineer

Karthik, s/o N.R. Jayaprakash, Sourab, s/o Tapan Kumar Vinayak, s/o G.R. Ranganath, Asst. Manager (Accounts), HQ. Pahari, Asst. Foreman, TAPP- ZPM (B&F), South Zone, HQ. Student: Amalorpavam HSS, 3&4, Tarapur job site. Student: Student: The National Pre- Pondy. 89.83% in Class XII. Atomic Energy Junior College, University College, Bangalore. . Aim: Engineer Tarapur. . 86.83% in Class XII- 83.33% in Class XII. Aim: CBSE. Electronics Engineer.

Ashwati, d/o V.A.K. Shenoi, Rageeth, s/o V. Radhakrishnan, Sahana, d/o T.V. Naganathan, Regional Manager, DLRO, Sr. Secreatary, EI&C BU, HQ. Head (Middle East & Africa), Student: Sindhi High School, Student: Swamys Mat. HSS, L&T Dubai. Student: Indian Bangalore. 89.8% in Class XII- Chennai. 86.75% in Class XII. School, Muscat. 83.4% in Class CBSE. Now doing B.E. Aim: Engineer XII. Aim: Engineer Electronics

Nishi, s/o Rama Kant Sharma, Sharmila, d/o K. Bhooma, d/o N.P. Varadharajan, Sr. Officer, IMCC Station job Radhakrishnan, Construction Construction Manager, TAPP site, New Delhi. Student: RAI Manager, Asahi India Glass job 3&4, Tarapur job site. Student: School, New Delhi.88.6% in site, Roorkee. Student: St. Joseph’s Velammal Mat. HSS, Chennai. Class XII-CBSE. Aim: M.H.S.S, Madurai. 86.66% in 83.08% in Class XII. Aim: Computer Engineer Class XII. Aim: CA PHD in Bio-tech.

Saranya, d/o S. Sivakumar, Sr. Archana, d/o S. Natarajan, Venkatesh, s/o M.R. Vasudevan, Manager (Personnel), EWL General Foreman, Veligonda Executive Secretary, H&N BU, Fabrication Shop, Kancheepuram. Project, Hyderabad. Student: St. HQ. Student: St. Johns Mat. Student: Zion Mat. HSS, Theresa GHSS, Chennai. HSS, Chennai. . 82.91% in Chennai. 87.66% in Class XII. 86.58% in Class XII. Aim: CA Class XII. Aim: Engineer Aim: Computer Engineer

Sivasankaran, s/o V.K. Mani, Nagasundhari, d/o K. Sreekanth, s/o M.V. Sector Projects Manager Manikandan, General Asst. Ramachandran, Construction (IP&U), Hyderabad. Student: (Admin), HQ. Student: Assisi Manager, Kuttiyadi Hydel Power SBOA School and Junior College, Mat. HSS, Chennai. 85% in Project. Student: St. Thomas Chennai. 87.4% in Class XII- Class XII. Aim: CA, now doing HSS, Trissur. 82.8% in Class CBSE. Aim: Engineer B.Com. XII. Aim: Doctor

July - September 2005 39 39 Nagendran, s/o S. Sankarraj, Ammina, d/o M. Sajid Farooq, Nimya, d/o E.R. Padmanabhan, Construction Manager, IDCT Manager (Civil), ISRMC-7, Asst. Const. Manager, Asahi Kaiga. Student: S.K.V. HSS, Vijayawada. Student: Narayana India Glass job site, Roorkee. Pappunayakkanpatty. 82.33% in Junior College, Hyderabad. 81% Student: St, Mary’s Girls HSS, Class XII. Aim: Engineer in Class XII. Aim: Engineer, Kuzhikkattussery. 81.5% in now doing B.Tech (Computer Class XII. Aim: M.B.A, now Science). doing B.B.A

Avinash, s/o P. Sridharan, Charulatha Sruthi, d/o Arvind, s/o K. Vasudevan, Tech. Manager (Planning), HQ. A.S.R.K.V. Raju, Asst. Const. Officer (IP&U), Jamshedpur. Student: Sai Mat. HSS, Manager, L&T (Oman), LLC. Student: Devaswom Board HSS, Chennai. 80.16% in Class XII. Student: Swamys Mat. HSS, Thiruvalla. 80% in Class XII. Aim: Now doing BE. Chennai. 81.33% in Class XII. Aim: Bio-Medical Engineer Aim: Engineer

Jhilam, d/o Sumita Mukherjee, Geetha, d/o S. Selvamani, Sr. Asst. Manager, Library & Commercial Supervisor, HQ. Documentation, EDRC-Kolkata. Student: Meenakshi College for Student: RCC Institute of Women, Chennai. 80.28% in Information Technology, Kolkata. B.Sc. (Physics). Now doing 85.70% in M.C.A Working as M.B.A Software Engineer.

Krishnamurthy, s/o O.P. Syamala, d/o D. Ramana, Vandana, d/o K. Manivannan, Thyagarajan, DGM (IP&U), Const.Manager, WTS-NTPC job GM (P&H BU), HQ. Student: HQ. Student: Birla Institute of site, Ramagundam. Student: Velammal Engineering College, Technology & Science, Pilani. Pydah College, Vizag. 83.66% in Chennai. 80% in B.Tech 92.3 % in M.Sc. (Hons), B.Sc (CCS). Now doing M.Sc. (Information Technology) Biological Science. Now doing Microbiology. Aim: Research Ph. D. in immunology. Aim: Scholar. Research Scholar

Thulasirajan, s/o L. Selvi, d/o G. Krishnaswamy, Asst. Santosh Kumar, s/o V. Siva Ponnambalam, Sr. Technician, Const.Manager, South City Kumar, Tech. Officer, AOB, HQ. TLT Pondy. Student: Housing Project, Bangalore. Student: Alpha Arts and Science Adhiparasakthi Polytechnic Student: Sri Meenakshi Govt. College, Chennai. 79.8% in College, Melmaruvathur. 88.74 College for Women, Madurai. B.Com Aim: ACS % in Diploma in Mechanical 83.15% in M.C.A Aim: Engineering. Aim: B.Tech Software Developer (Mechanical)

Sridevi, d/o S. Vardharajan, Divya, d/o H. Jagannathan, Debaruna, d/o A.K. Ghosh, Surveyor, CTS job site, Chennai. DGM – Business Development, AGM (MIP-M&M), HQ. Student: Meenakshi College for South Zone, HQ. Student: Govt. Student: Dr. MGR Janaki Women, Chennai. 89% in College of Technology, College for Women, Chennai. B.Com. Now doing M.B.A. Aim: Coimbatore. 82% in B.E First Rank in Master of IAS Computer Science. Joined TCS Human Resource as Asst. Systems Engineer. Management. Aim: HRM Professional

Sugirda, d/o R. Dinakar, Project Kamala Preetha, d/o M. Gopal, Manager, VIWSCO job site, Asst. Manager (Accounts), RMZ Rajahmundry. Student: R.M.K Ecospace site, Bangalore. Student: Engineering College, Chennai. Sree Sastha Institute of Engg. & 85.76% in B. Tech (Information Technology, Chennai. 82% in Technology). Joined L&T B.E. Electronics & Communica- Infotech as Software Engineer. tion Engineering. Aim: Techno Aim: MBA Commercial Professional

40 40 July - September 2005 STAFF NEWS NEW SENIOR-LEVEL APPOINTMENTS Mr. Krishan Kumar Gupta has joined Mr. Manoj Anil Dave joined ECC on ECC as Senior DGM (Hydel) at HQ, June 9, 2005 as Deputy General Chennai in December 2004. A BE in civil Manager (Developmental Projects). He he holds a bachelors degree in law and is a diploma holder in mechanical MBA. Starting his career in 1981 as a engineering and has 22 years’ experience, graduate engineer with Indian Oil having worked for Cadila Group, Arvind Corporation Limited, where he worked Mills, Coinma India Pvt Ltd, Intertoll for two years, he later served the Central Mr. Krishan India Consultants and GVK Jaipur- Mr. Manoj Anil Dave Water Commission for 21 years from 1983 Kumar Gupta Kishangarh Expressway Limited. Located to 2004. He has rich experience in field investigations, at Delhi in the North Zonal Office, Mr. Dave is involved preparation of detailed project reports and construction in liaising with NHAI/Government of Haryana for of hydro-electric projects. Mr. Gupta is working on smooth implementation of the Panipat Elevated Corridor business development and project development in Hydel Project in addition to coordinating with various SPVs Business Unit. for improving the existing toll systems and operations.

PROMOTIONS HQ – Chennai G. Saxena, DGM (Civil)-Contracts K. Jawahar, Chief Engineering Manager (Civil), EDRC C6 Cadre: N. Jayanta kumar, Chief Engineering Manager (Mech) M. Chandrasekaran, DGM (Materials) N. Karunakaran, DGM (Mech) R. Chandrasekaran, DGM (Legal) K. Sesha Reddy, Project Manager (Civil) C. Chokkalingam, DGM (HCP) M. Bandyopadhyay, DGM (BMH)-Projects T.V. Karthikeyan, DGM (Finance & Accounts) S. Ramesh, DGM-Planning B. Puhazhendi, DGM (HCP) B. Srinivasa Rao, Chief Engineering Manager (C.T), Rajan Venkateswaran, Chief Architect, EDRC EDRC N. Ramasethu, DGM-Projects (WET) Senior Manager: Shekhar Murthy, DGM (EI&C) B. Anand w A. Senthil Murugan w A. Sukumaran B. Srinivasan, DGM (Commercial) w G. Balasubramanian w S. Balasundaran w S. Baskaran N. Srinivasan, DGM (Spl.Proj.& Const.methods) w K.R.R. Chandran w A. Elangovan w S. Ganesan P.R. Surendra Babu, DGM (I&CB) w D.K. Ganguly w S. Kirupa Shankar w A. Mohan Fernando T. Venkatesh Rao, Chief Engineering Manager (Civil), w S. Mohanalatha w P.S. Madhukarrao w S. Periannan EDRC w K. Rajeevan w Rajesh Kanade w S. Selvaganapathy R. Viswanathan, DGM (TI)-contracts w P.R.Srinivasan w Subhra Chatterjee w V.Sukumar Hebbar w S. Sunmugam w S. Veeramani w N.R. Vijay Venkatesh C5 Cadre: V. Kesavan, Project Manager (Elec) Manager T. Madhava Das, DGM-planning Anne Sriramkumar w S. Balasubramanian w Banerjee Debasis T. Meenakshi Sundaram, Chief Engineering Manager w B. Gangadhara Reddy w Bellana Sirish w K.R. Chandra (Civil), EDRC Mouli w Chintalapaty V.K. Mahadev w S. Dakshinamurthy P. Mukopadhyayay, DGM (BMH)-Projects w M.F. F ebin w Geetha Hariharan w A.V.Gurunathan w Indranil Basu w N.R. Jayaprakash w A. Kavitha Lakshmi E. Padmanabhan, Head-Bldgs. Utilities Competency, w Koneru Bhavani w M. Kumaran w S. Manohar w R. Murali EDRC w G. Muralidharan w K.K. Prasanna w T.T. Rajendira N. Ramakrishna Raju, Head - EDRC (H&N) Satheesh Kumar w J. Raveendran w A. Ravi Kumar K. Senthilnathan, Head - EDRC (T&I) w R. Sampath Kumar w Samresh Tomer w T.E. Senthilraja M.S.Seshadri, DGM (Finance & Accounts) w Shaji John w S. Jagdish Keole w B. Sivasubramanian V.P. Singh, DGM (BMH)-projects w T.R. Subash w Sudripta Misra w K.R. Suresh w K.S. Suresh A. Soundararajan, DGM (Devl.Projects)-Contracts w Tanmoy Biswas w P. Thavasi w P. Vassanthi w R. Venkatesh V. Thulasiram, DGM (Elec)-Design Sr. Officer: C4 Cadre: A.K. Srivastava w Amit Swarnkar w P.Balasubramanian J.J.G Christopher, DGM (Finance & Accounts) w K. Chandra Mohan Reddy w V. Dhandapani w Geetha K.P. Cion, DGM (BUCC) Sunilkumar w K. Gunasekaran w S. Jayachandran w Konduru S. Ganapathy, DGM (legal) Nabibulla w B Muni Venkata Swaminadhan w A. Murali

July - September 2005 41 Mohan Murthy w P.T. Narayanan w K.C. Nisha w Prasanta Officer: Kumar Ray w J. Prathabasingh w S. Rajagopalan A. Alphonse w S. Alphonse Arul Seelan w V. w M.S. Rajesh w V.S. Raji w Rajiv Ranjan w Rajiv Ranjan Balasubramanian w P.Chandrasekaran w S. Dhandapani w Priyedarshi w R. Ramalingam w B. Ramanathan w Reddy M. Dinesh Kumar w R. Govindarajan w K. Prabhakaran w Vari Rajendrakumar w S. Sakthivelan wK.G. Sathyanarayanan C.N. Karthikeyan w S. Madhu Anand w A. Mohamed Rafi w R. Saraswathi w R. Sethumadhavan w P. Sekar w K. Senou w V. Pradeep w N. Ravichandran w D. SenthiLKumar w R. w P.Sridhar w K. Srinivasan w P. Vijay Thamizhselvan w K. Thamizhvanan w P. Vijayaraj Officer: EWL Kancheepuram N. Anand w T. Annamalai w V.Arunkumar w D. Balaji w S. Balaji w Banu Gopal Mohapatro w Battu Sriramakrishna C6 Cadre: w Chittoor Zakeer w S. Damodharan w R. Dhanalakshmi w B. Dhanasekaran w V. Gopinath w G. Guruprasad Pankaj Malhotra, w Jayaprakash Tentu w R. Jayasankar w Jaydeep Goswami DGM - Business Development w Kamal Mehdiratta w Karimikonda Koteswara Rao C4 Cadre: w K. Karthikeyan w Kolhapure Amit Prakash M. Kasinath, w S. Krishnamoorthy w S. Murugan w S. Prabakaran Chief Engineering Manager w Praveen Kumar Singh w S. Rajendran w R. Ramesh w V.Ravichandran w C. Sajeesh w Sankha Dasgupta w Shukla Sitaram Meghadri, Niraj Lalit w V.S.Shyam Sundar w C.T. Sivakumar DGM - Production w T. Sumathi w P.Suresh w V.Swaminathan w Tadigotla Sr. Manager: Sasidhar w K. Tamil Selvan w B. Theagarajan w N. Thiagarajan w T.S. Thiruvenghadam w Umesh R. Nagarajan Kangralkar w L. Venkataraman w G. Vijayam Bethanasamy Manager: K. Gireesh Chennai Region Sr. Officer: D. Balasubramanian C4 Cadre: Officer: V.B. Katti, RPM (Hydel & Nuclear) B. Kannan, N. Vinayan D. Suresh Kumar, Regional Materials Manager Mumbai C.H. Ravindranath Prasad, Project Manager, MTC Spreader, Neyveli C6 Cadre: Sr. Manager: A.K. Mishra, SPM (PT&D) S. Bhaskaran w S. Kumaresan w P.Nainamalai w C4 Cadre: K.S. Narayanan w C. Niranjana w N. Ramamurthy w S.K. Chakraborthy, Project Manager, APDRP-Indore A.A.Shaji w C. Subramanian Elect. Project Manager: B. Dakshina Moorthy Iyer, N. Athimoolam w S. Devananth w G. Devaraj Project Manager, Oberoi Mall Shyamkumar w S. Ganesan w H. Bhadri w L.S. Kannan Sr. Manager: w P. Majee w B.S.K. Murugananthan w K. Muthaiyan C.H. Anilkumar w Rajendra Kumar Jain w P. Sridharan w w V.Namachivayam w S. Jaleel w R. Ponrajapandi Tushar Mohan Urankar w V. Ravi w S. Sankara Subramanian w S. Himavantha Reddy w S. Sathyamurthy w A.P.Sivakumaran w V.S.Sridhar Manager: w N. Subramanian w S.A. Subramanian w S. Abdul Noor A. Saifee w S.K. Bade w J.P. Gosavi w M.J. Kulkarni w V.R.Vairavan w M.K. Wakade w P.R. Sudhir w P.K. Singh w S.G. Bhat w S.V.L.N Prasad Varma w K. Ravichandran w Sanjeev Sr. Officer: Tiwari w Satya Prakash w B. Sundaramoorthy w Tarun T. Charles w C. Atchuta Rao w G. Sumanth w N. Jagadeesan Ghosh w D. Vijayakumar w P.Jagannathan w L. Janarthanan w S.R. Lakshmi Sr. Officer: Narasimhan w S. Narayanan w M. Paranthaman w P.A. Prabhakar w K. Ravichandran w K.V. Satyanarayana Reddy A.K. Srivastava w R. Shukla w B. Maharana w P. Boopathy w R. Sridharan w G. Suresh w A. Thangavel w V.K. Giridharan w J.S. Manohar w M.K. Agarwal w w S.K. Veerapandian w S. Kaliyan w P.Venkatachalapathy M.K. Pradhan w T.K. Praseed w S.P. Kolhe w S.K.S. Chauhan w S.V. Venkatraman w N.S.R. Venkattesan w S. Banerjee w S. Shekhar w T.V. Ramsamuj w V. Nitin Anil

42 July - September 2005 Officer: Officer: A. Anwar Mogal w E. Balakrishnan w D. Mukhopadhyay Achintya Dutta w Amitabha Pal w P. Ananda Kumar w G. Bhowmick w K.P.Gireshkumar w O. B. Vasant w Ananta Basu w Anil Kumar Singh w Arijit Maitra w I. Halder w I. K.Rahimatpure w J.H. Dattatraya w Ashwini Kumar Khuntia w Bandana Khanna w Basudeb w Jaichand w J.N. Indraram w K.R. Vijayrao w K.J. Shriram Das w Bijay Shankar Dubay w Biswajit Paul w Brij Mohan w K.J. Raghunath w M.H. Chhotalal w S.S.Mani Kashyap w Chandra Bhushan Kumar w Debapriya w A. Muthukumaran w Y.T. Nagaraja w P.J. Prabhakar Bandyopadhyay w Girin Kumar Das w Gitimaya Behera w P. Radha Kishan w R. Mishra w R.K. Sharma w R.K. w Jasaram Patel w Mahantesh Rewadi w Mitul Roy w Mona Mukhopadhyay w S. Yadav w S.K. Jaiswal w S.M. Naik K Bhavnani w Partha Banerjee w Prabhat Kumar w S. Majumder w E. Ramana Reddy w V. Srinivasu Krishnaputre w Pradip Kumar Parida w D.E.Sandip w Sandip w V.Vijay Kumar Gandhi w W.M. Subhan Seal w Sanjay Mitra w Sanjoy Bhattacharya w P.R. Saravana Kumar w Saswati Basu w Somnath Biswas Kolkata w G. Srinivasamoorthy w Subhajit Datta w Subir Brata Mandal w Subrata Banerjee w Subrata Ganguly w Subrata C6 Cadre: Mukherjee w Subrata Sinha w Surajit Bhattacharya w Surajit Kumar Das w Swapna Moy Banerjee w C.N. Unnikrishnan D.M. Shah, Chief Project Manager (Mech) w Vemuri Shashidhar w G. Viswanathan w Animesh Nandy R. Srinivasan, SPM (PT&D) w Sumita Mukherjee C5 Cadre: R.C. Pandey, RPM (BMH) Delhi Indranil Roy, Chief Engg. Manager - Designs Viju Varkey, Project Manager, National Games Complex C6 Cadre: C4 Cadre: P. John Rajkumar, SPM (PT&D) Ajoy Bhattacharyya, Project Manager, Balco - Korba C5 Cadre: Davinder Singh, Regional Plant Manager V. Mohanasundaram, Project Manager, Ranchi Maithan K. Kannan, SPM (B&F) Mohammad Saleem, Regional Plant Manager N.C. Das, Project Manager, HSBC S. Raja, Project Manager, Bakreswar C4 Cadre: Sr. Manager: Ajay Nashikkar, Project Manager, PTA-IOCL, Panipat A. Kumar w A.K. Sinha w A. Mukherjee w B.P. Singh D. Anandan, Project Manager, w S.K.Chattopadhyay w D. Roy w D. Sutradhar 400KV, Muzaffarpur-Gorak-TL w T. Kumaresan w R. Rautray w S.P. Dutta w S. Nath Kishore Pritamdas Gurnaney, RPM (B & F) w T. Das Gupta V. Raghavendran, RPM (Indl.Electrification) Manager: Sr. Manager: A. Datta w A.K. Dalui w A.K. Nandi w B.K. Sen w B.Bandyopadhyay w P.Biswanath w B. Kishor w R.K. Balamurali w Dharmendra Pratap Singh w G. Vinod P.Dasaratha Ram Reddy w J. Dhayalan w G. Kalia w w R. Govindarajan w Rakeshkumar Sharma P.R.Lakshminarayanan w M. Chakraborty w S. Naciappan w P.Nageswara Rao w P.P.Chakravarty w P. Lahiri w P.Saha Manager: w P. Kumar w R. Shukla w R.K. Banerjee w S.K. Das w Anil Kumar Bansal w V.S. Anilkumar w Ashiwani Kumar S.B. Biswas w S. Chakrabarty w V. M. Baba w A. Saharoy Tripathi w Atul Kumar Jain w Dayanand Singh w A. Devasighamani w Gyan Prakash Goel w V. Jayachandran Sr. Officer: w Jitender Aggarwal w Kamal Bhattacharya w P.Mamallan Achinta Saha w Ajit Agrawal w Aloke Nath Banerjee w w S. Mani w Manjit Singh w Mukul Indukumar Vasavada Anand Kumar Sharma w Anumolu Srinivasa Rao w Ashis w Mula Kameswara Sarma w A.S.R. Munuswami w Navdeep Kumar Moitra w N. Ashok w A. Dhanasekar w Diwakar Grover w Palwinder Singh w Pawan Kumar Goyal w Prabir Mishra w Eleswarapu Srinivas w Hare Ram w Jayanthi Kushary w K. Radhakrishnan w Ram Niwas Gaur w Subrata Sivaraman w Kanak Sarma w Kartick Dutta w Kartik Kumar Sadhu w S. Vasudeva Rao w Vinaykumar Singh w Vinod Biswal w Krishnakumar Pandey w Mansoor Alam w Kumar Sharmaw S. Subramanian Paramhans Singh w R.B. Parkhey w Pradip Kumar Ray w Sr. Officer: Pramod Kumar Sharma w Prantick Sarkar w G. Prasanna Kumar w Rakesh Kumar Choudhary w Ram Anuj Singh w Anand Pratap Singh w Bhabesh Chandra Saha w Brajesh D. Sivanesan w S.N. Somasundaram w V.N. Sreenivas w C. Kumar Singh w M. David Maria Kumar w Dinesh Kumar Srinivas Rao w Subrata Das Gupta w Sushil Kumar Dubey w Diwakar Prasad Tiwari w Girish Kumar Wadhwa w Harihar w Sankar Dutta w Udayan Roy w D.K. Ghosh Chauhan w P.G. Hegde w Jayanta Shekhar Mitra w

July - September 2005 43 A. Kathirvel w Khursheed Ahmad w Laxmee Narayana w Krishna Tripathi w S. Mohan Babu w Parmar Sureshbhai E. Madhusoodanan w Mohan Singh w Mukesh Goel w E.R. Bhailalbhai w P.Ravichandran w Sandip Bhowmik Padmanabhan w G. Prabhakaran w Pushpender Kumar Rai w A.R Santhanam w G. Selvanayagam w K. Senthilnathan w Rakesh Ummat w G.Ramu w Sammanwar Nitin Rajeshwar w P. Sivakumar w R. Srinivasan w Subhankar Bose w w Sandeep Gupta w K. Selwyn w Sudhir Kumar Shrivastava C.V.Suresh w A. Uthirapathy w Suresh Kumar w Umesh K. Handigol w Umesh Prasad w D. Uthanda Ramakrishnan w Vimal Saroha TLT Factory, Pondy Officer: Sr. Manager: Ajay Kumar Gupta w Ajay Rai w Ajit Kumar Ambastha V.M. Karunanithi w Sunilkumar Jaywant w Ashis Ghose w Brajesh Kumar w R. Dayal w Deepak Vasant Kulkarni w M.R. Dinakaran w N. Hariharan Manager: w Himanshu Ojha w R. Jawahar w Kamalesh Prasad P.K. Narasimhan w M. Muthiah w D. W. Muthukumar w T. Karthikeyan w B. Nanda Gobu w Pankaj Pande w Prabhat Kumar Srivastava w Prabhat Srivastav w Pradeep Balagopal Officer: w Rajeshwar Singh w Rangu Prasanna Rao w Ravipati K. Faruk Basha Vijayakumar w Riju Samuel w Rupesh Kumar w Sachidanand w Sachin Kumar w Sajal Pal w Sanjay Kumar w Sanjay Kumar Maurya w Sanjay Kumar Singh w C. Shanmugam Bangalore w Sharma Sunilkumar Asharam w Shubhankar Das w V.Sivaraman w K. Srinivasan w A.K. Srivastava w Subha C6 Cadre: Narayan Das w A. Thanka Krishnan w Vemula SK G.V. Narasimha, SPM (PT&D) Narasimha Rao w N. Vinod Kumar C5 Cadre: Overseas Dhanyakumar Devendra Khot, SPM (T&I) S. Jagannathan, SPM (IP&U) C6 Cadre: Niranjan Simha, SPM (B&F) Rajan Malhotra, Resident Manager, Qatar C4 Cadre: Shrinath Rao, Area Manager, U.A.E Pravin Manmohan Gupta, DGM-Contracts C4 Cadre: P. Sankaranarayanan, DGM (WET) - Planning Jay Narayan Patnaik, Project Manager, Bangladesh Sr. Manager: V. Nagesh, Project Manager, Dubai, U.A.E. Ashok Kumar Hadimani w Ashok Shenoy Padav Nizar Ahmed, Project Manager, Suriname w N.R.R. Kanna w B. Lakshmanan w Lochan K. Joseph Sanjeev Gupta, Project Manager, Wadi Bridge, Jordan w Rama Nayak w S.P.Ravikumar w H.N.Vinayakumar

Sr. Manager: Manager: V. Anand w Navneet Kaul w Sachindranath Gupta w Ajo Abraham w D. Chezhian w K. Guhanandam w B.V.Koti R. Balasubramanian w G. Kesavan Reddy w N. Maheshwara Reddy w P. Nagarajan w V.Nagarajan w R. Narayanan w Prapulla Chandra Rai Manager: Amai w G.R. Prasanna w P. Rajamanickam w Ramachandra R. Anand w K. Hari Krishna w E. Sagar Kumar Patro w Venkataraman Hegde w M. Ramanujam w Y.S. Sathish Shubhendu Bose w A. Manoharan w M. Saravanan w Subrata w Sudhansu Kumar Muduli w J. Sudhir Durand Chakraborty w K. Sukumaran w P. Udayakumar w Vadlamani Kishore w C.T. Venkatappa w K. Venkatesha Kamath Sr. Officer: S. Ayyappan w P. Chakradhara Rao w B. Gopala Krishnan Sr. Officer: w G. Harihara Puthiran w S. Muthu w Nitish Chandra Das P. Anjumani w T. Balakrishnan w Bipin Bihari Padhy w Pramod Kumar Singh w K. Rajesh w J. Ramanujam w Dinesh Singh w Gurupadesh w G. Krishnaswamy w K. Ramnarayanan w K. Ravi Gopal w N. Sridharan w P. Manimaran w A. Mariappan w M. Mohamed Aslam w S. Umapathi w R. Prabakaran w G. Rajasekhara w Rajesh Gupta w M.S. Ravikumar w Ravula Veerabhadra Rao w Samiran Officer: Kirtaniya w A. Selvam w K. Srirangachar w Suneel Dimri Bhagaban Patra w R. Chandra Mohan w Chavan Satish w Surendran Mappoth w B.N. Tavanshi w P.V. Venugopal Sahebrao w M. Francis Dhanaraj w D.M. Khurpe w Kunwar w V.Yegappan

44 July - September 2005 Officer: TLT Factory, Pithampur P.L. Alagappan w A.P. Amarnath w Amit Jain w Anuranjan w T. Balakrishnan w S. Balamurugan w Biraj Kumar Ray Manager: w M. Dhayalan w S. Francis Florious w M. Gopal w Goutam Maddi w G. Jayasankar w Jogdand Rushikesh Narayanrav S. Palani w Jose Thomas w R. Karthikeyan w Kodumuri Sateesh Sr. Officer: Kumar w V.Krishnan w Lalichan Antony w Madhu Sudan Pattanaik w P. Mahadevan w Mohana Rao Injarapu w Mohsin R.K. Maheswaran w Shrishail Shirur Mohd Khan w G. Murasazhagan w M. Muthuerulappan w Officer: M. Natarajan w Niranjana w A. Palani w S. Palanisamy w Manindra Nath Mahakul w Vijay Kumar Khanna K. Prabakar w K. Ranjan w V.Ravichandran w R. Renugopal w A. Sathiamurthy w Sawant Surendra Shridhar w K. Sivaramakrishnan w N. Sridharw R. Sridharw B. Srinivasarao Hyderabad w Sudipta Kumar Bej w D. Sundararajan w Sushil Kumar w C.B. Thanigai Mani w S. Uma Maheshwar Reddy w C5 Cadre: Vankina Sesha Giri Rao w N.S. Veeramani w C. Velvizhi w Venugopal Sunkara Pradeep Joshi, SPM (PT&D) C4 Cadre: Ahmedabad Anud Koul, RPM (Trans.Lines) C5 Cadre: K. Venkatasubbu, Project Manager, Rajeev Kumar, SPM (IP&U) Konaseema power project C4 Cadre: Vijay Eknath Bhagwat, Project Manager, Jindal Dam project L. Vijayaraghavan, Regional Materials Manager Sr. Manager: Sr. Manager: L. Aalagappan w Nimmagadda Sudhakar w S.K. Rajendran Dillip Kumar Nanda w Ravi Prakash Manager: Manager: P.G. Aravinda Ghosh w Arun Kumar Singh w R. Anil w C. Bhaskara Reddy w A. Chakrapani w G. Balasubramanian w Deepak Kumar Nayak w K. Patankar S. Chandrasekar w Dabbiru Venkateswara Rao w Rajib Chakraborty w Ravi Khurana w Rongali Srinivas w P. Dhananjaya wGaneshappa Shettar w Gautam Eunny w Subal Kishor Sahu w J. Suresh w Sureshkumar Ramrao w R. Gopalakrishnan w N. Gopinathan w T. Janaki Ramudu Chakole w Thakre Sunil Manohar w Vikas Dashore w Krishnagiri Mahipal Singh w M. Parthiban Mohan w S. Radhakrishnan w S. Shriraman w J. Somasundara Murty Sr. Officer: w K. Sreenivasulu Reddy w Sudheer Joshi w C.Suresh Kumar E.R. Chandrasekar Suresh w Debabrata Chakraborty w K. Velmuruganw V. Venkatarami Reddy w Goutam Roy w Jyotsna Gautam w P. Leeladhar w S. Mahalingam w K.D. Mehta w Mukesh Kumar Sr. Officer: w R.S. Narayana w N. Pratap Kumar w B. Ramakrishnan J. Arun w P.M. Balaji w D. Chandra Sekhar w P.R. Hari w Routhu Rakesh w Sanjay Kumar R. Shah w M.J. Sebastian Krishna w S. John Edward Raj w Karanam Govardhana Serafin w Suneelkumar Vasantrao Joshi w Tapash Basu Giri w Kishor Ankush Chalke w Korimilli V.S.N. Murty w C.K.Vijayan w J. Peer Mohamed w S. Prabakaran w Pradeep Prasad w G. Ramachandra Rao w Ramesh Chandra Thakur w S. Ravi Officer: Baskar w R. Saravanan w S. Sathyanarayana w G. Balachandar w S. Chandraeaswaran w K. Gandeeban w M.V. Satyanarayana w G. Sreerama Murty w Subhamoy G. Gopinath w Govind Gopal Gaur w Manoranjan Maitra w Tatipaka S.S. Kishore w Tummala R.P. Premasagar Gochhayat w P. Muthuraj w Parekh V Rajeshkumar Rasiklal w G. Venkata Subba Rao w G. Prasad w M. Rajkumar w Rakesh Kumar Singh w Satendra Kumar w Suhas Harishchandra Bhole w Vyom Officer: Sahu N. Annamalai w A. Girirajan w M. Hariharan w Karibasappa G. Hullamani w S. Kasiraman w Mandyam Krishnakumar L&T Formworks, Pondy Shyam w D. Manimaranw K.A. Mohamed Rafi w P. Muthupandian w S. Naga Srinivasa Sarma w D. Ramesh w Sr. Officer: Salil Kumar Bag w Y. Sathyanarayana w Shaik Sartaz Ahamed L. Jaikumar w G. Murali w Shiv Jee Gupta w Shiv Kumar Singh w Shyama Prasad Srinivasa w Y.R.R. Srinivas w S.A. Subaramanian w V. Officer: Subramaniyan w Tej Bahadur Singh w P. Thegaraj w Umesh N. Arun Thomas Alphonse Babu w T. Rangaraju Chandra Swain

July - September 2005 45 JV Companies Subansiri Hydel Project

C6 Cadre: C5 Cadre: K.V. Praveen, Deputy Area Manager-Saudi Arabia, L&T Vijendra Kumar Nagyan, DGM (Civil) (Saudi) LLC Sr. Officer: C5 Cadre: Sunil Dutt Vats Javeed Shakil, Project Manager (Civil), L&T-Hochtief Officer: Seabird JV w Ranjit Singh Attri w Soumen Saha w Girish Kapoor w S. Krishnamoorthy, SPM (B&F), L&T (Saudi) LLC S. Radhakrishnan w Akhilesh Prakash Lakhera M. Shyam Sundar, SPM (B&F), L&T (Oman) LLC Second Vivekananda Bridge C4 Cadre: C5 Cadre: Debasish Biswas, Project Manager (Elec), T.S. Ananthakumar, Resident Project Manager L&T (Saudi) LLC V. Gopinath, Financial Controller, L&T (Oman) LLC Sr. Manager: Mukesh Surendraray Raval, Project Manager (Civil), D. Sukumaran L&T (Oman) LLC Manager: M. Padmanabha Rao, Project Manager (Civil), L&T Himanshu Bhushan Singh w Raveendra Hegde (Saudi) LLC V. Subbarama Raju, DGM-Accounts & Admin, IMCC Sr. Officer: JV, DELHI (DMRC) Abhijit Barua w D. Durga Venkata Rathnam w Umesh Kumar Singh Sr. Manager: Officer: Aloke Kumar Dey w S. Ramkumar w R. Shankar Narayanan Abhijeet Thakurta w Kalyan Roy w Sankar Deb w Varule w Surya Srinivas Nistala Paresh Chandrakant Manager: Panipat Elevated Corridor Ajay Uppal w Anjan Mohapatro w S. Balachandar w Goutam Kumar Sarkar w Joshi Rajendra Vinayak w B. Liazudeen w Manager: N. Loganathan w S. Mohan w Naveen Gulati w Parcha K. Muralidhar Madhav w L. Ramesh w G. Surendar Reddy w J. Solanki Pankajkumar w V.Sreenivas Rao Zonal Offices Sr. Officer: C6 Cadre: Adabala Ranganayukulu w Alluru SRK Venkateswararaju w P. Niranjana, ZPM (H & N), M.K. Dayanandan w M. Marimuthu w Nirgudkar Rahul Southern Zonal Office (Dom) Shamkant w G. Pandi w R.B. Parhi w Pranava Kumar Vatsa K. Rajaram, ZPM (PT&D), w B. Sriram w Surajeet Lahiri w V. Veerakesavan w V. Venkata Southern Zonal Office (Dom) Kumar w R.M. Vinod Kumar G.R. Ranganath, ZPM (B&F), Southern Zonal Office (Dom) Officer: K.P. Sreehari, ZPM (TI)-International, Ahijit Seal w Ashutosh Kumar Maurya w V.V. Bala Anilkumar Western Zonal Office (Intl) w R. Ganesh w M. Meerhyder w Mohammed Tofeeque w M. Mrudula w B. Radhakrishna w R. Rajagopalan Sr. Manager: w Satam Vikas Yeshwant w R. Sridhar w K. Sundararajan Shyamal Ghosh w C. Veera Sekhar Manager: Tirupur Water Supply Dilip Sadashiv Sakpal w Gonsalves Rocky Joseph w S. Sundararajan w S. Suresh Manager: Sr. Officer: Vemana Prasanna K.C. Ajaykumar w Amritakumar Das w S. Kameshwaran w N. Suresh Officer: Ajit Kumar w M. Chandrasekar w M. Gopalakrishnan w Officer: G. Ganesan Pande Yogesh Sudheer w Subhasis Roy Chowdhury

46 July - September 2005 Mr. George Thomas, Chief Engineering Manager Mr. G. Thandayuthapani, Asst. Manager (FCCE), HQ-Chennai, receives his 25-year (Civil), HQ-Chennai, receives his 20-year long-service award from Mr. K.V. Rangaswami, long-service award from Mr. Rangaswami Senior Vice-President (Operations)

Mr. N. Sridharan, Manager (Accounts & Mr. S.N. Rajan, Manager (Civil), HQ-Chennai, Mr. P. Gopinath , Resident Project Manager, Admin), Bahrain, receives his 25-year long-service receives his 20-year long-service award from Lafarge Site, Bangladesh, receives his 20-year long- award from Mr. V.B. Gadgil, Executive Vice- Mr. K.G. Hariharan, Executive Vice President & service award from Mr. M.K. Mohanty, VP & President (Operations) Head – Industrial Projects and Utilities Sector Head – East Zone (Intl.)

Mr. M. Sanjeevi, General Foreman (Civil), Mr. R. Ramakrishna, Construction Manager, Mr. Sasikumar Raghavan Nair, Construction HSBC Site, Sri Lanka, receives his 20-year long- IOCL Panipat site, receives his 20-year long-service Manager, 400/220 kV substation, Bahadurgarh, service award from Mr. D.A. Muthana, JGM – award from Mr. V.A.K. Shenoi, RM – DLRO receives his 20-year long-service award from South Zone (Intl.) Mr. Shenoi

Mr. A. Devasighamani, Asst. Manager (Admin), Mr. Ram Lubhaya Joshi, Industrial Relations Najafgarh Depot, receives his 20-year long-service Supervisor, 400 kV substation, Amritsar, receives award from Mr. Shenoi his 20-year long-service award from Mr. Shenoi

July - September 2005 49 Mr. E.B.K. Shetty, Foreman (Civil), Najafgarh Mr. K. Subbiah, Foreman (Carpentry), Mr. Makhan Singh Sira, General Foreman Depot, receives his 20-year long-service award from Najafgarh Depot, receives his 20-year long-service (Carpentry), Asahi Glass Plant, Roorkee, receives Mr. Shenoi award from Mr. Shenoi his 20-year long-service award from Mr. Shenoi

Mr. Darshan Singh Birda, General Foreman Mr. Sukhwant Singh, Driver, DLRO, receives his Mr. S. Viswanathan, Asst. Manager (Stores), (Carpentry), Asahi Glass Plant, receives his 20-year long-service award from Mr. Shenoi Jharkhand Road, receives his 35-year long-service 20-year long-service award from Mr. Shenoi award from Mr. A. Radharaman, RM-KKRO

Mr. S. Chowdhury, Engineering Manager Mr. S. Mohan, Manager (Accounts), TISCO, Mr. Ashim Kumar Dalvi, Construction Man- (Mech), EDRC-Kolkata, receives his 25-year long- Jamshedpur, receives his 20-year long-service award ager (Civil), OWSSB - Puri, receives his 20-year service award from Mr. Radharaman from Mr. Radharaman long-service award from Mr. Radharaman

Ms. Mona K. Bhavani, Asst. Manager (Admin), Mr. Kartick Dutta, Asst Manager (Accounts), KKRO, receives her 20-year long-service award Bihar Sub trans, Purnia, receives his 20-year from Mr. Radharaman long-service award from Mr. Radharaman

50 July - September 2005 Mr. P.V. Damodharan, Crane Operator, TISCO Mr. Sashi Kanta Nayak, Despatch Asst., Kona Mr. T.G. Bhaskar, Chief Engineering Manager Site, Jamshedpur, receives his 20-year long-service Depot, receives his 20-year long-service award from (Civil), MBRO, receives his 20-year long-service award from Mr. Radharaman Mr. Radharaman award from Mr. S.V. Swaminathan, RM-MBRO

Mr. O. Ravindran Nair, Foreman (Elec), Kasara Ms. S.S. Kotian, Executive (Insurance), MBRO, Mr. Dukhi Sharma, Foreman (Carpentry), Igatpuri OHE, receives his 20-year long-service receives her 20-year long-service award from Sahara Star Modifications, receives his 20-year award from Mr. Swaminathan Mr. Swaminathan long-service award from Mr. Swaminathan

Mr. K.M. Rao, Senior Secretary, L&T Infocity, Mr. R. Dinakar, Project Manager, VIWSCO, Mr. G. Sivadasan, Asst. Foreman (Civil), receives his 20-year long-service award from Rajahmundry, receives his 25-year long service Vemagiri Power Project, receives his 20-year long- Mr. R. Sridharan, COO, L&T Infocity award from Mr. K.A. Shyamsundar, RM-HYRO service award from Mr. Shyamsundar

Mr. M.G. Viswanathan, Manager (Accounts), Mr. U. Unnikrishnan, General Foreman (Civil), Qatar, receives his 20-year long-service award from Qatar, receives his 20-year long-service award from Mr. S.J. Stephen - GM & Head – SHIS Mr. Stephen

July - September 2005 51 CSTI – Transforming Lives

Founded a decade ago, the L&T Construction Skills Training Institute (CSTI) in Chennai harnesses the untapped, raw power of the multitudes of Indian youth into a trained and focused construction workforce of world-class standards. With a focus on creating skills and knowledge at grassroot levels, the Institute trains young people in the 18 to 24 age group in various disciplines like masonry, carpentry, plumbing & sanitary and electrical work. It has so far trained and deployed around 1,500 skilled workmen in various locations in the country and abroad. A. Saravanan (Electrical trade) explains that modular training is CSTI’s strength and the ECC News interviewed past and present students of CSTI and students are made familiar with these models. obtained their impressions on CSTI, its training curriculum and how The ECC work culture of safety as a way of life it has touched their lives. is inculcated early on in their training programme. S. Ravi (Carpentry trade) is just back after an assignment in Bangladesh. Coming from a rural N. Muthukumaran (Form- A. Saravanan th background with a 10 pass and ITI work trade demonstrator) says qualification, he attributes his growth to CSTI that the students are also taught the basics of training curriculum which, apart from imparting cooking and independent living and this aids knowledge and skills in the prescribed subjects, them when posted at project sites. focuses on improving quintessential factors of lifestyle. From a monthly stipend of Rs.1,500/ K. Suresh (Bar Bending trade demonstrator) S. Ravi - during his student days, today he earns around N. Muthukumaran had failed to clear his class XII Rs.6,000/- and asserts that his family’s financial condition has standard examinations and was improved over the years. The very fact that he is a product of facing an uncertain future for himself. But his L&T has earned him an identity and respect back in his village. outlook changed when he met his relative, a CSTI product, who had just returned from R.S. Devarajan (Masonry trade), hailing from a village near abroad and directed him to CSTI. Suresh found Arni, recounts with pride his association with the L&T team his feet again at CSTI, acquired skills that made which was involved in the construction of the earthquake-resistant him not just an expert bar-bender but also a Bhuj hospital in Gujarat. He looks forward to realising his demonstrator who has to date trained more than ambition of becoming a chargehand in the near future. 100 students. Today he is justifiably proud of K. Suresh R. Thirumal (Masonry trade) joined CSTI in 1999 and worked the change CSTI brought about in him. in L&T’s project sites in Kerala, Andhra and Sikkim. After successful completion of the P.Sellakaruppan, J. Santhosh Kumar and M. Kamal Kumar prescribed competency test and gaining experience echo similar sentiments and vouch that CSTI has been a turning in project sites, he is now a demonstrator at CSTI. point in their lives, equipping them with the tools to become He has also ensured that his younger brother successful workmen and improve their lifestyle and personality. gets the CSTI advantage. Now, imbued with self- It is the strategic objectives of building a construction workforce respect and a high level of confidence, he is of world-class standards that makes CSTI one-of-its kind awaiting opportunities to work abroad and gain institution in India, dedicated to providing employment international experience. R. Thirumal opportunities for the youth M. Ibrahim Ali (a Plumber trade student) from weaker believes that it is the overall perspective of CSTI sections of our curriculum that makes the training excellent and society and comprehensive. The emphasis on safety standards helping them and first aid lessons, combined with adequate make a good practical classes and other recreational activities, and honest prepare the students to become skilled workmen. living. P.Sellakaruppan J. Santhosh Kumar M. Kamal Kumar M. Ibrahim Ali

Editor: V.S. Ramana Editorial Team: K. Sridharan, Alex Benjamin, V.D.S. Prasad, V. Ramesh Kumar, Ashwin Chand, V. Eswar, Subha Anand Photography: V.S. Natanavelu Printed at: Quadra Press Ltd., Unit II, 338, Nehrunagar, Indl. Estate, Kottivakkam, Chennai 600096. Edited by V.S. Ramana for Larsen & Toubro Limited, ECC Division from ECC Headquarters, Manapakkam, Chennai-89. Designed by Pace Systems & Graphic Communications, Chennai-18. 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.