National Mineral Development Corporation (NMDC) on Tuesday won two SKOCH Awards at 80th SKOCH Summit 2022.
NDMC was awarded one gold and one silver award in the 80th SKOCH Summit and SKOCH Awards recently conducted by SKOCH, New Delhi. The theme for the SKOCH Summit was ‘State of BFSI & PSUs’.
NMDC won the Gold Award in the category of social responsibility for the project ‘Promotion of Technical Education and Skill Development in Dantewada District through NMDC ITI Bhansi’ and the Silver Award in the category of digital inclusion for the ‘Project Kalpataru’ for ERP implementation.
The awards were received by Shri Amitava Mukherjee, Director (Finance) via video conferencing on behalf of Chairman and Managing Director, Shri Sumit Deb.
What is National Mineral Development Corporation?
National Mineral Development Corporation is a public sector undertaking under the Ministry of Steel, Government of India. It is India’s largest iron ore producer and exporter.
As per recent statistics, it has produced more than 35 million tonnes of iron ore from three mechanized mines it operates in the states of Chhattisgarh and Karnataka.
NDMC also operates the only mechanized diamond mine in the country at Panna in Madhya Pradesh.
What are SKOCH Awards?
The SKOCH Awards were given to the winners based on the application submitted on their website, a presentation to the jury followed by three rounds of popular online voting, and the second round of jury evaluation.
In addition to the above, NMDC also received the 3 SKOCH – Order of Merit Awards for its exemplary efforts in ensuring seamless digitalization in Project Kalpataru, for its expansive CSR efforts in promoting technical education and skill development in the remote districts of Dantewada, and “Project Safety First” in the category Response to COVID.
Congratulating the team on this achievement, Sumit Deb, CMD, NMDC said, “I would like to thank SKOCH for recognizing NMDC’s efforts in serving the nation – be it in helping transform the lives of the youth in Dantewada through skill development and training or in integrating digitalization in our production processes for efficient operations”.
“NMDC’s unique amalgamation of hard work to meet raw material demands with a conscious thrust on positive social evolution is what makes me a proud member of Team NMDC”, he added.