Jagdev -"the conqueror"

Bhubaneswar, Mar 18: The new managing committee of CREDAI Odisha for the term 2016-18 has been elected today in CREDAI’s extraordinary General Body meeting held at Mayfair Convention Board Room in Odisha Capital. DS Tripathy, Binay Krishna Das, Swadesh Kumar Routray and Shashi Sekhar Garabadu have been elected as Chairman, President, President (Elect) and General Secretary respectively.  Other office bearers and executive members are Partho Biswal, Susant Kumar Rout, Umesh Khandelwal- Vice Presidents, Kishore Kumar Agarwal, Pabitra Kumar Mahapatra– Joint Secretaries, Dilip Kumar Biswal - Treasurer, Anil Mohanty, Dilip Kumar Sahoo, Mohammed Alim, Sarad Baid– Executive Members. After declaration of election to the new managing committee by RN Kar, Returning Officer, Binay Krishna Das, President and Mr. Swadesh Kumar Routray, President (Elect) congratulated all members and pronounced CREDAI Odisha’s mission for enterprising innovations for Affordable Urban Housing.

Rourkela, Mar 8 : A financially, psychologically and emotionally empowered woman is not only an asset for the family but also for the entire society. This has been a guiding philosophy for Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) in each of its endeavour. The Steel maker has made it a mission to infuse a little bit of steely strength in every woman through education, skill developments, guidance and all out support. Keeping holistic development as its central approach Women’s Empowerment has been made an integral component of RSP’s various Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) interventions which cut across the areas of health, education and quality of life, etc. Let’s meet Binita Tirkey, a young girl from Jabaghat village. She and 10 of her associates had never thought that one day their Self Help Group (SHG) will not only be flourishing but will also be winning awards. Under the patronage of RSP, their Sri SAI SHG is today grown into a number of enterprising ventures. The SHG was award...

Bhubaneswar, Feb 5: A-three day state level refresher training programme for trained Youth Red Cross (YRC) counsellors has been organized by Indian Red Cross Society, Odisha State Branch (IRCS-OSB) at Red Cross Bhavan here that started from February 4. Guests at Refresher Training Programme of YRC The event will terminate tomorrow. About 64 YRC counsellors from 22 districts in Odisha have participated in the three-day event. The objective of the training programme is to refresh the activities and core areas of YRC with a view to strengthen its movement in the State. Dr Ajay Kumar Nayak, Joint Secretary, Higher Education graced the inaugural session as the chief guest. Speaking on the occasion, Dr Nayak said, “The YRC counsellors should be inspired rather than doing Red Cross activities in routine duty so that true spirit of volunteerism will be explored within them.” Dr. Chakradhar Panda, Secretary, YRC Odisha extended a warm welcome to all the guests & participa...

Bhubaneswar, Dec 19: After more than a month of thorough investigation, the commissionerate police on Saturday cracked the sensational murder case of a doctor couple in Saileshree Vihar under Chandrasekharpur police limits by arresting three accused persons involved in the brutal crime. The police have seized four mobile phones, six golden bangles, Rs 2100 and a chappad from the accused possession. The accused were identified as Kishore Chandra Behera (44) alias Timpa of Nehrunagar in Ganjam district, Md Kamal Khan alias Muna (22)and his wife Phulsari Behera alias Nini(36), both of Aul in Kendrapara district. The mastermind Tikina Behera (30) and Jaban Naik, both hails from Sujeli in Kandhamal district are still at large. Briefing the gruesome murder to newsmen at commissionerate headquarters office here today, the twin city Commissioner of Police (CP) Dr RP Sharma said, “Tikina involving other four had made a demo of the whole incident on November 13, crime planned acc...

Rourkela, Dec 14: Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP), a unit of the Maharatna Company-SAIL has bagged the first prize in “ National Energy Conservation Award 2015 ” in Integrated Steel Plant sector for the fiscal 2014-15. The award was presented on the National Energy Conservation Day by the Ministry of Power, Government of India, in a glittering function held at Vigyan Bhawan of New Delhi on December 14. The function was presided over by Piyush Goyal, Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Power, Coal and Non Renewable energy. On behalf of RSP, the award was received by P Sahoo, GM (Electrical) and P K Baisakhiya, DGM (EMD). It is worth mentioning here that in its endeavour to conserve energy, RSP has taken a number of initiatives recently. As a result, the overall specific energy consumption in the plant has come down from 6.97 Giga Calorie per tonne of crude steel in 2009-10 to 6.57 Giga Calorie per tonne of crude steel in 2014-15. Notably, during the said year the spec...

Rourkela, Dec 5: S S Mohanty, Director (Technical) SAIL arrived on a two day visit to Rourkela Steel Plant RSP today. On his today’s visit to plant, he held a discussion with M K Das, ED (Projects), S K Acharya, ED (Projects), Ashwini Kumar, ED (Works) at CEO’s office regarding the production, productivity, future plans and other important aspects of functioning at RSP. Thereafter, accompanied with SK Acharya and Ashwini Kumar, Mohanty visited Blast Furnace-V. He also held a meeting with the senior officers of the Plant. Later, he visited the Slab yard, Finishing Line of New plate Mill and the site of the New Hot Strip Mill. In the afternoon, Mohanty interacted with the officers of Finance and Marketing at CEO’s Conference Hall. Later in the evening, Mohanty chaired a communication exercise on ‘Turnaround Strategy of SAIL’ at Gopabandhu Auditorium that was attended by about 500 employees from various departments of the Plant.  

Rourkela, Dec 4: Centre for Technology Innovation and Industry Relations (TIIR) of NIT Rourkela is going to organize an Industry-Institute-Interface interactive session on 'Technology for Business Advantage: Collaboration between NITR & Industry' on January 7 at Prana Krushna Parija Auditorium (PPA) of the institute Campus. NIT Rourkela This event will be an ideal platform to discuss issues of mutual interest pertaining to technology & innovation beneficial for industry and its welfare. NIT Rourkela is putting its best foot forward to bridge the skill gaps that exist in the industry by offering it technology expertise. NIT Rourkela, with its intellectual capital, the human resource, the library, the laboratories and equipment, and its tradition of scholarship, is an ocean of knowledge that is waiting to be tapped by the industry for creation of wealth and welfare of humanity.  The interface between the institute and the industry, the interface between ...