On
15 August 2012, Union Ministry of Labour and Employment announced the
Prime Minister Shram Awards for year 2011.
This
year,
no nomination was found suitable for the presitigious Shram Ratna
Award.
Six
nominations for the Shram Bhushan Award, Thirty
Three nominations for Shram Vir/Shram Veerangana and twenty nine
nominations for Shram Shree/Shram Devi Awards have been selected. Even
though, the total number of Shram Awards is 33, the number of workers receiving
the Awards is 68 (Including six women), as some of the Awards
have been shared by workers and/or teams of workers consisting of more than one
worker. These include 52 workers from the public sector and 16
workers from the private sector.
- Six nominations were found
suitable for the Shram Bhushan Award for the year 2011. Shram
Bhushan awards carries a cash award of Rs. 1, 00,000/- and a ‘Sanad’.
The awards are given to Shri Baikunth Sharma,Ghan Shyam Mandal, Utpal
Kumar (Jointly) all from Bokaro Steel Plant, Bokaro. Smt. B.N. Shanthamma
from Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd, Bangalore and Shri Biswajit Kar from
Tata Steel Ltd., Jamshedpur and Shri Rajesh Kumar Dwivedi from Tata Steel
Ltd., Jamshedpur.
- Thrity Three nominations
were found suitable for the Shram Veer/Veerangana Award. Shram
Veer/Veerangana awards carry a cash prize of RS. 60,000 and
a ‘Sanad’.
- Twenty Nine nominations
were found suitable for the Shram Shree/Devi Award. Shram
Shree/Devi Awards comprise of a cash prize of RS. 40,000
and a ‘Sanad’.
- Shram Awards were set up by the
Government of India in 1985 to recognize the outstanding
contributions of workers in different fields.
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