OREANDA-NEWS. May 11, 2012. Quality has always been a key focus area for Tata Power, India’s largest integrated power company. Continuing with this commitment to improve quality at its various plant locations, Tata Power’s Jojobera thermal power station organised ’Quality Nite’, an award function to recognise employees of its Quality Circle teams.

Quality Nite is an annual function organised to felicitate outstanding employees / teams, for their contribution towards the Quality Circle movement. The annual function also gives an opportunity to the company to motivate the employees, thus providing further impetus to quality movement at Tata Power. Tata Power has received domestic as well as international recognition for its quality movement. The procedures and methodologies deployed at its Jojobera thermal plant are in line with Tata Power’s concerted efforts towards total quality management and assurance.

Applauding the efforts of the quality teams, DS Kudalkar, head, Jojobera thermal power station, Tata Power, said,“Quality Nite is an occasion to acknowledge the contribution of our QC teams towards continual improvement and establishing new industry standards through total employee involvement. We are committed to enhancing value for our customers.”

The chief guest for the evening, Rakeshwar Pandey, president, Tata Power Employees Union, along with AP Wankhede, head, eastern region operations, and DS Kudalkar, head, Jojobera thermal power station, handed over the awards to winning quality teams.

As part of the quality movement, the improvements implemented at the Jojobera plant are presented through case studies at various national and international forums. The exercise facilitates best practices sharing and learning from improvements taking place at different companies. This year, one Quality Circle team, ‘Achievers’, from the plant participated in the International Convention of Quality Circles held at Singapore and received top honours at the convention. Similarly, teams ‘Achievers’ and ‘Prerna’ won the Excellent Award at the NCQC Convention which was held at Hyderabad.