Marks the observance of Swacchata Pakhwada from 16th-31st March at SAIL
Team News Riveting
Rourkela, March 18
In its continuing endeavour to create a greener, cleaner and happier environment at the work place, the Team Raw Materials Handling Plant of SAIL, Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) has developed a garden by transforming the overgrown and unkempt backyard of the RMHP building.
The beautifully landscaped garden with an attractive fountain named as ‘SAIL, Samanway Jharna’ made in-house by using salvaged materials was inaugurated by S R Suryawanshi, ED (Works) on 17th March. It also marked the observance of Swachhata Pakhwada at SAIL from 16th to 31st March. Present on the occasion were Mr. S S Roychoudhury, CGM (RMHP), several Chief General Managers, HODs and Senior Executives of the Plant.
The area behind the Main Building was earlier having wild growths, shrubs, scraps etc making the area unclean, dirty and a breeding ground for insects, mosquitoes, reptiles etc. often causing inconvenience for the Main building as well as for the surrounding areas. Under the ‘Motivational Scheme for Workplace Excellence’ initiative by DIC, RSP, the RMHP team took up this area for development. The area was cleared, trees were pruned and the ground was levelled with earth filling.
A barricade was erected around the garden and a number of flower beds were made for different types seasonal flowers. Many evergreen foliage plants like Croton, Palm Trees, Cycas, Jhau, Alamonda, Jasmine, Hibiscus (Jaba), Coleus etc. have been planted in the garden.
The steel fountain is made up of a number of Steel Pipes placed in tandem to have cascading effect of waterfalls from one pipe to another depicting coordination and synergetic working in tandem by different departments, which is an essential part of an Integrated Steel plant like RSP. The water ultimately falls into a Fish pond with colourful fish and Water Lilly plants.
Various waste materials have been utilised in this garden and around. Obsolete Refractory Bricks are used for making flower beds and empty oil drums for making beautiful drain covers.
This garden was conceived, designed and executed by Sachidananda Parida, Pradeep Chandra Patra, Manas Ranjan Panda and Dilip Kumar Patel, all MOMTs, Pitamber Singh (Executive Assistant), Khirod Chandra Baral, Bhurla Oram, Singhray Mundry and Debendra Birganthia, all SOSTs under the guidance of Jay Shankar Singh, GM In-charge (AMR & Planning), Manoj Kumar Giri, GM In-charge (Electrical), Prasanna Kumar Naik, GM (Mechanical), Prabhakar Shende, GM In-charge (Operation), Tarun Praveen Ekka, AGM (Mechanical), Nakul Chandra Patra, Senior Manager(Operation), Sujit Bhanjdeo, Senior Manager (Mechanical) and Hari Nath Yadav, Senior Manager (Operation). Civil Engineering Services and Horticulture Department had extended support in creation of this beautiful garden and the pond.
