As per the directives of Central Vigilance Commission, Vigilance Awareness Week – 2020(VAW-2020) is being observed from October 27 to November 2 on the theme Satark Bharat, Samriddh Bharat (Vigilant India, Prosperous India)”.
In compliance of the same Vigilance Awareness Week is also being observed at NMDC Ltd., the country’s largest Iron Ore producing Navratna Central PSU. On the Inaugural day of VAW-2020, Integrity Pledge for organisation was administered in Hindi by Sumit Deb, CMD and for citizens in English by VVS Sreenivas, CVO to the employees at its Head Office, Hyderabad. Whereas, P. K. Satpathy, Director(Production) read out the message of President, Alok Kumar Mehta, Director(Commercial) read out the message of Vice-President and Executive Directors B. Sahoo and S. Surender read out the messages of Prime Minister and the Central Vigilance Commission, respectively, on observance of VAW-2020.
The pledge administering ceremony was also Live-streamed across all the Projects/R&D & Regional Offices(ROs) of NMDC Ltd. located in the states of Chhattisgarh, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Jharkhand & New Delhi which enabled another five thousand employees posted over there to take the Integrity Pledge simultaneously, duly following health precautions suggested due to COVID-19 pandemic.
Various activities including individual & inter-departmental competitions and sensitization programs have been arranged / planned for the employees during the Vigilance Awareness Week-2020 at NMDC which will culminate on 02.11.2020 with Valedictory Function & distribution of Prizes to the winners of various competitions.