Annual Report for 2011-2012 - Vizag Steel

30 th Annual Report 2011-12
The information regarding the grievances for the year
2011-12 is furnished below:
Sl
No
Type of
Grievances
Grievances
outstanding
as on 1 st April
2011.
Women Empowerment:
No of
Grievances
received
during
the year
No of
Grievances
disposed off
during the
year
No of
Grievances
pending
as on
31 st March
2012
1 Public 6 14 19 1
2 Employees Nil 8 7 1
Women employees have been associated in
appropriate Committees providing them an
opportunity for development. Special programmes for
women employees have been organized by HRD
directly and also through the Forum of Women In Public
Sector (WIPS) which was formed in the Company in
1997 under the aegis of SCOPE. Training and
Development programmes aimed at career
advancement, women empowerment, personality
development, gender sensitization, safety awareness,
occupational health, osteoporosis awareness,
interpersonal skills, computer skills, communication
skills, capacity building, work life balance, leadership
and safe and healthy living etc. have been organized
during the year, covering about 294 women
employees.
S. No.of No. of
No. Details Programmes Participants
Conducted
1. In-House Management
Development Programmes
Exclusive Woman Programmes
a) Woman Development 1
programme 45
b) Gender Sensitivity 2
Programmes
2 External Nominations 59
In pursuance of the Hon'ble Supreme Court's
Judgement and keeping in view the Government
instructions/guidelines on sexual harassment of women
at work places, a Committee headed by a woman
officer was constituted to inquire into the complaints
of sexual harassment at work places. A provision in
this regard has also been incorporated in the Conduct,
25
Discipline and Appeal Rules / Standing Orders of the
Company. During the year, no incidence of sexual
harassment of women or discrimination amongst
women employees on the basis of gender has been
reported.
Progressive use of Hindi:
For effective implementation of Official Language Policy,
various activities have been undertaken during the year
2011-12 as under:
Committee of Parliament on Official Language
conducted inspections in New Delhi Regional Office
and RINL Headquarters on 9 th May, 2011 and
28 th Sept., 2011 respectively. The committee
appreciated the activities undertaken at RINL towards
Official Language implementation. All the assurances
were fulfilled within the specified time period. In line
with the directives received from Ministry, Unicode was
enabled for working in Hindi on computers and used
in Headquarters and various Subordinate Offices.
Training towards the above has been further
strengthened and extended to outstation offices.
269 employees were trained in two batches under
Hindi Prabodh/Praveen courses. 127 employees were
trained in Hindi Workshops conducted at
Visakhapatnam and Mines. Hindi classes were
conducted for housewives of Ukkunagaram under
Dakshina Bharat Hindi Prachar Sabha courses. An
intensive Translation course was also organized in
Regional Office, Mumbai with the help of Central
Translation Bureau, Govt. of India wherein the
representatives of all the Branches of Western Region
have participated. To create an environment and
interest towards Hindi amongst employees, a Hindi
Hasya Kavi Sammelan was organized with the help of
poets of National repute.
A National Level Hindi Seminar in Official Language was
organized on 'Promoting Usage of Steel in Rural Areas'
in which representatives from various Organizations
participated. On this occasion, a Special issue viz.
'KHAPAT' consisting of articles from delegates was
released. 4 issues of quarterly Hindi Magazine
'Sugandh' and Hindi version of in-house News Magazine
of VSP 'Ukkuvani' were published during the year. Hindi