'NALCO must do more for villages' KORAPUT, 14 SEPT: "Villages in the periphery of NALCO in the Koraput district could enjoy the benefits of real development if local leaders, district administration and NALCO authorities could collaborate among themselves in a better way," said Mr Chitta Ranjan Pradhan, the chief managing director (CMD) of NALCO at Damanjodi today.
"The peripheral villages are struggling hard to meet their daily needs, basic health facilities being a major problem, despite several existing plans for their development," he said. However, proposals like the plan to construct a 25 bedded hospital by the company with support from the district administration could go a long way in realising the dreams of resident villagers," he added.
While addressing the media he said that he was not able to transform even one tenth of his dreams into reality with the help of the company even though he was on his way to taking the superannuation this month after serving for 27 long years in the company.
The dreams to raise the performance of the company to the international standard could not be materialised for different reasons. While the mechanisation of the company was upgraded to the best in the industry anywhere in the world, the input cost remained high with 21 per cent of the total cost going towards human resource management. The output given by 400 persons here could well be achieved by employing only four persons in companies elsewhere overseas.
While there was a need to bring greater results with minimum inputs especially at a time when the entire industry especially the aluminum industry is facing hard days after the recent recession in the global economy, options of downsizing human resources were not possible in the country, he said. However the company was planning to undertake massive expansion plans both in and outside the country by bringing about maximum utilization of its human resources.
Listing out the plans of the company, he said that adding to the mining in a rich reserve of bauxite in the Pottangi region of Koraput district, deals were in the final stage to acquire mining zones at Gudem & KR Konda mining sites at Chintapalli near Visakhapatnam including some other places near the Godavari region in the neighbouring state of Andhra Pradesh.
Moreover the company also was making arrangements with the government in Iran to set up a smelter plant in that country.
Speaking about the plans for a sustainable power supply for the company, he said that in addition to the power plant that was coming up at Jharsuguda in the state under the company, a coal based power plant was coming up in the very near future in Indonesia. Talks to establish a nuclear power plant by the company were in progress with the support of the Nuclear Power Corporation and places in Ganjam district in the state have been placed for selection before the corporation in this regard.
While the company was going for austerity measures to cut down its financial burden for the lowering of profitability over the years, it was aiming at improving the situation by increasing the turnover of the company to more than Rs 10,000 crore from its existing turnover of Rs 6,000 crore a year within the next five years, he added. Among others Mr PK Mahapatra, ED (M&R) and Mr RP Swain, general manager (H&A) were also present. SNS |
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