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GWI wins the Tata Inter-Company T20 tournament

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GLOBAL WIRES, INDIA

October 2013 - February 2014

Global Wires India celebratesAspire Nite

Global Wires, India inaugurates its new bead wire lineChanges at Tata SteelHamara ManchQuality Month celebrated at Wire DivisionQuality Circles, Global Wires India, wins National Safety AwardRepublic Day celebrations at Global WiresSu Samwad held at Tarapur, Borivli and Out-locationsGlobal Wires India celebrates its Aspire NiteStrategy Workshop at Wire Division, Ethics Round TableConference at Wire Division, Tripti Roy Ethics CounsellorTata Steel Ltd visits Global WiresVisitors to GWB, Shabash, Finance and Accounts Strategy MeetHappenings at EPA Group

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Team AntardrishtiGrand Opening ceremony for TSN Wires, ThailandHappenings at SIWHappenings at Lanka SSLFun & Sports Birthday celebrations, CSRHealth - Five Healthy Foods to Eat at your WorkstationDhanvantari Vatika starts bloomingPromotions and Appointments, Transfers in Global Wires IndiaTransfers out of Global Wires IndiaLong Service Awards

As the financial year draws to a close, we need to grit ourselves to ensure that we deliver a strong finish in March'14 to ensure that we exceed our last year's sales volumes. While we will be significantly exceeding our ABP globally, thanks to the stellar performance of SIW Thailand. We will be just short against our ABP for FY14 in India, but the performance is worthy when seen against the bleak economic situation and the difficult markets. Congratulations therefore are due to you for the manner in which all of you have got together to face the challenges that havebeen thrown at us. It is said that "Adversity is the best test of the strongest" and you have proved that you are the strongest.

I am also happy at the progress made from Project Antardrishti. The project has built new capabilities within Global Wires, in addition to the many insights it has thrown up into customer segments. These capabilities will definitely help in strengthening our retail initiative for the long run. The onus is now on us to ensure that we sustain all the learnings' that we have had, across the Organization and including our Channel partners.

Congratulations are also due to the winners of the various "Aspire Projects" and the winners of the "Quality Circle" competitions. The sustained projects in improvement activities have become a hallmark of Tata Steel. Let us now take a challenge to go to the next higher levels by having more "Black Belt" projects. Unlike these, I am concerned about our "Safety" initiative. We individually and collectively need to be more proactive and vigilant in ensuring that our work place becomes safe and we have zero tolerance to unsafe practices and situations.

The last few months have seen significant changes in the organization at Tata Steel ( pls see page 3 ). Congratulations are due to Mr Rajiv Kumar Soni on his elevation as Executive-In-Charge Global Wires India and Mr Rajiv Mangal(our ex Wires colleague) as President & CEO of Tata Steel Thailand both of whom are members of the GWB Council.

CheersSunil Bhaskaran

Its’ been some time since I communicated with you through this ( Taarsansar ) platform. Many good activities have happened at Global Wires India in the interim period. The foremost being the successful commissioning of our thick tyre bead wire facility at TWP- I and the spring wire facility at SSP plant. With these projects we have upgraded our facilities to be amongst the best in class. We are very fortunate to have a senior and respected gentleman like Mr AK Bajoria President & Director at JK Tyre and Industries Ltd to come and inaugurate our new facility. I will like to extend my heartfelt gratitude to Mr Bajoria for his graciousness to spare time to visit us and address our officers and employees at Tarapur. On another front, our alliance with Sumiden Thailand for tyre cord, TSN Wires Thailand for high end galvanized wires is going from strength to strength. We have lined up new alliances for more exciting products for the Indian markets. The Project Antardrishti team too has provided us many insights into consumer behaviour and the onus is now on us to rigorously implement their recommendations for success.

Our actual performance of sales volumes and top line revenues has been close to our ABP FY14 targets. The matter of concern has been the rising inflationary cost. We had to take tough decisions to close our DWP facility and fine wire facility at Indore. The increased cost has been aggravated due to the increased competitive pressures emerging out of globalization of India through the various FTA that India has signed. This is putting pressure on our margins. While I am proud of our performance in FY14 in the face of this adversity, we need to grid ourselves to face this challenge in the new financial year FY15. We will have to work hard by identifying more improvement projects to ensure that we can sweat our assets with limited resources and reduce our cost. We will also need to work on ensuring that we consistently deliver the product and service quality that exceeds our customer requirements.

Come May'14 and we will bid adieu to our iconic Borivli office. The new challenge facing us is the relocation to the new office at R Tech Park, Goregaon. While we have taken care to ensure that the relocation will be smooth with minimum pain. Everyone involved will also have to make the personal and professional adjustments. As we leave behind our history and fond memories of Borivli, I appeal to all of you to give your best and ensure that its business as usual from our new office at the earliest

Warm regards

RK Soni

Message of Chairman GWB Council

Message from EIC Global Wires, India


Global Wires, India inauguratesits new bead wire line

Global Wires, India inaugurated its new “Bead Wire” finishing line at its Tarapur Wire Plant-1 at Maharashtra. The new facility has been put up to to serve the growing needs of the Indian Tyre manufacturers for manufacture of “Truck and bus radial tyres”. Bead wire is a copper- bronze high tensile steel wire used in the reinforcement of all types ( bias and radial) pneumatic tyres for the automobile industry.The new plant was inaugurated by Mr. A K Bajoria, President and Director, JK Tyre and Industries Ltd in the presence of Mr. Rajiv Kumar Soni, Executive-In-charge, Global Wires India and the India Management Team. Mr. Bajoria also met the employees, the SGA teams and appreciated their efforts on seeing the trophies their teams had won during state level, national level QC competitions. Mr. Bajoria while addressing the Tarapur employees laid emphasis on the need to stay focused on quality and cost competiveness to sustain business in these difficult times.Tata Steel Global Wires has been a leading producer of bead wire for tyre reinforcement in India since last three decades and market leader in India. In 2013, expansion investments were made to make this plant a fully dedicated bead wire manufacturing unit equipped with the latest technology. The plant employs more than 120 people and supplies bead wire to all major domestic & international tyre manufacturers. Earlier last year, Global Wires India also entered into a strategic alliance with Sumitomo Electric Industries, Japan for sourcing steel tyre cord from their Thailand facility to add to its product offering to the Indian Tyre Industry.

Mr AK Bajoria President & Director JK Tyres lighting the inaugural lamp

Mr AK Bajoria with Mr RK Soni and senior leadership team of GWI

Mr AK Bajoria inaugurated the new TB line, addressed the employees, interacted with employees on the shop floor and

appreciated the SGA projects.

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Changes at Tata SteelA few key changes in the Senior Leadership team at Tata Steel India & South East Asia are as follows

The Marketing & Sales organization is redesigned as follows, on three core verticals, to bring in, increased focus on user segments and to further drive customer centricity in the company –

Ms Atrayee Sarkar is appointed as Chief of Marketing & Sales (Branded

Products, Retail & Solutions) and will be responsible for marketing and sales of steel brands comprising of TISCON, ASTRUM, Steelium, GC, Galvano,

Durashine, Nest and roofing solutions.

Mr Subodh Pandey is appointed as Chief of Marketing & Sales (Industrial Products, Projects & Exports) and will be responsible for marketing and sales

of Industrial products to large commercial accounts, to projects in

construction space and sales of “Readybuild” and other such products

to the construction segment.

Mr Debashish Chowdhury is appointed as Chief (Business Excellence & New

Projects) in M&S and will be responsible for implementing TQM and KVHS in M&S, along with MPPI initiatives such as ABP formulation,

tracking of Industry and Govt. Liaison. Additionally, this position will be the

Marketing interface with all new projects including KPO.

Mr Prabhat Kumar is appointed as Chief of Marketing & Sales (Automotive

& Special Products)

Mr Anand Sen is appointed as President TQM & Steel Business. He will report to MD India & SE Asia

Mr Sandip Biswas is appointed as Group Vice President Finance and will be responsible for Financial Performance & Reporting, Mergers & Acquisition, Risk

Management and Investors Relations.

Mr Peeyush Gupta is appointed as Deputy Vice President - Steel

Marketing & Sales.

Mr Rajeev Singhal is appointed as Deputy Vice President - Raw Materials

Mr R Ranganath is redesignated as Deputy Vice President Finance, India & SE Asia

Mr Rajiv Mangal is appointed as President & CEO Tata Steel

(Thailand) Public Company Limited

Mr Sudhansu Pathak is appointed as Deputy Vice President - Steel Manufacturing.

Mr B K Das is appointed as Deputy Vice President - Coke, Sinter & Iron.

Mr Suresh Kumar is appointed as Deputy Vice President - Shared Services

Mr Dibyendu Bose is appointed as Group Director Investments &

New Ventures.

Mr Chanakya Chaudhary is appointed as Group Director Corporate

Communication & Regulatory Affairs

• Mr. N. Rajesh is appointed as Chief (Manufacturing), Flat Product • Mr. Debashis Das is appointed as Chief (Manufacturing), Long Product.• Mr Kulvin Suri is appointed Chief Corporate Communication India & SE Asia• Mr Shyam Sunder is appointed as Chief Corporate Safety• Mr. Suman Biswas is Chief (Planning), planning of Long Product

• Mr. Gurmit Singh is appointed as Chief LD#1• Mr Imdad Ali is appointed as Chief HRM Profit Center• Mr Manish Sharma is appointed as Principal Executive Officer (Corporate) and will report to Group ED Finance & Corporate


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Prof KVSS Narayana Rao presenting on “Lean Management”

Satish Kumar and Union Committee Members unfurling the Productivity flag

"fib" or the "International Federation of Structural Concrete" was created in 1998 by the merger of "Euro-International Committee for Concrete" and the "International Federation for Prestressing". The objectives of the fib is to develop at the International level the study of scientific and practical matters to advance the technical, economic, aesthetic and environmental performance of concrete construction by - (1) simulation of design and synthesis of findings, (2) transfer into design and construction practices, (3) dissemination by publication and congresses, (4) production of recommendations, guidance documents and (5) informing of members through relevant documents. The fourth fib Congress 2014, Mumbai was held under the aegis of Institution of Engineers (India) in association with Indian Road Congress, American Concrete Institute (India Chapter) and the Indian Concrete Institute and the theme was "Improving performance of concrete structures"

Expectedly the who's who in the Indian Construction Industry from construction companies, engineering designers and consultants, prestressing companies both from India and abroad and Institutes and students engaged in research such at the "Japanese Prestressed Concrete Institute" were present in large numbers at the 4 day congress from 10th to 14th February'14. There were also a large number of practicing construction engineers and many prestress cables, fixtures, equipment manufacturing companies displaying their wares. Global Wires, India being one of the largest manufacturer of prestressed concrete strands for construction had put up their stall at the exhibition grounds. Mr Krishnendu Sanyal Chief M&S, Sachin Warang Head Marketing, SP Prasad Industry Manager Construction were at hand to answer any question that the delegates visiting the stall may have. They also used the opportunity to network with some of the best engineers in the construction Industry. At the congress, Dr Amar Nath Bhagat from Tata Steel - R&D and SS presented his paper on "Development of low relaxation prestressed concrete strands with improved properties". Another area of relevance to us was the paper by Dr Andrzej Lapko “Usage of Fibers in improving the strength of RCC Structure”

Productivity Improvement is a key differentiator for any organization (be it manufacturing or a service) to stay competitive and profitable. The National Productivity Council (NPC) of India celebrates 12th February every year as “Productivity Day” and the following week as “Productivity Week” to spread awareness on importance of productiv-ity amongst Indian industries. In line with these ideas, Global Wires India too celebrated the week from 12th to 18th February’14 as “Productivity Week”. The Productivity Flag hoisting was done by Mr. Satish Kumar Chief Operations to kick start the celebrations. T Sathianathan Head WRM West, DH Patil Head TWP II and Union Committee Secretaries were present on this occasion and spoke on productivity Improvements. Other activities that were done as part of these celebrations were - A presentation on "Lean Management for Productivity Enhancement” was done by Prof KVSS Narayana Rao of NITIE Mumbai. In addition slogan contests, productvity suggestion mela and presentations on a few shining cases in the area of produc-tivity Improvement were done under the coordination of Rajesh Santlani CQH and his TQM team.

Global Wires India participatesin the fib congress

Productivity Week celebrationsat Global Wires India

RK Soni is re-elected as Chairman of Steel WiresManufacturer’s Association of India

RK Soni appointed as Executive-in-Charge Global Wires India

Unfurling the Quality flag

The Quality month celebrations at Global Wires India was kicked off with a flag hoisting ceremony and the Quality oath at Tarapur. Prashant Ursekar Chief Business Development, Pramod Raste Chief HRM, Krishnendu Sanyal Chief M&S, Satish Kumar Chief Operations and Union Committee Members spoke on the relevance of Quality on this occasion. Suresh Mahajan then announced the various activities such as skits, slogans, and essay competitions which were the part of these celebrations. 4 skits on the theme of “Quality” were presented by employees of TWP1, TWP II, WRM West and Perfect Wires (EPA). The skit presented by Prakash More and team from TWP II won the heart of the audience and expectedly won the 1st prize. Prakash More and team used the “Vikram and Betal” storyline to weave a very entertaining skit on how there can be no alternative to “Quality”. The Quality Month celebrations ended with a prize distribution ceremony at the hands of the Chief Guest Shri Maheshwari, Deputy Director from Bureau of Indian Standards organization.

The EPA cell led by Dinkar Chavan was not to be left behind and “Quality Month” was also celebrated at various EPA’s such as Vora Wires Indore, Perfect Wires Tarapur and at Mars Mercantile Dhandad. Likewise Pithampur Wire Plant (PWP) organized the Quality Month which included Quality Slogan Competition, Quality Quiz & Poster competition. PWP had invited Mr. Prashant Jagetiya General Manager Production, Bridgestone as the Chief Guest for Quality Month valedictory ceremony. Mr.Krishnendu Sanyal, CoMS TSWD, Mr. Sanjeet Acharya and Mr. Utpal Mhatre were also present at the ceremony. Later Mr. Jagetiya visited the factory and appreciated the practices at PWP. He particularly appreciated the Tata Steel Quality Pledge which emphasizes the saying ‘Quality begins with Me’. At the valedictory ceremony Voice of Customers were shared with the employees to improve customer connect. Next GK Keshwani and Sahil Chandratre addressed the employees which was followed by a skit by the PWP employees. The winners were recognized at the hands of Mr. Prashant Jagetiya, Krishnendu Sanyal and Satish Walekar.

Employees taking the Quality Oath

Glimpses of Quality Month celebrations across wire plants and EPA’s

Mr Prashant Jagetiya General Manager Bridgestone inaugurating the Quality Month celebrations at Pithampur plant

Prashant Ursekar speaking on the relevance of “Quality”

Quality Month celebrated at Wire Division


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Global Wires India, wins National Safety AwardThe National Safety Council India - Safety Awards 2012 distribution function was held on 4th Oct’13 at the SCOPE Convention Hall in New Delhi. Global Wires India’s -Tarapur Wire Plants were awarded a " SURAKSHA PURASKAR” a Certificate and a Bronze trophy in the manufacturing sector in recognition for developing and implementing effective management systems and procedures and achieving a very good performance in Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) for the assessment period of three years from 2009 to 2011. The award function was presided over by Shri Arun Kumar Sinha Additional Secretary in the Ministry of Labour and Employment, Government of India. Pramod Tamondkar Senior Manager Safety and Union Committee members - M.G.Thakur (TWP I) and Kiran Sawant (TWP II) received the award on behalf of Global Wires India

Global Wires India Quality Circle teams won “Par Excellence” and “Excellence” award at the National Convention NCQC2013 held from 20th to 23rd December’13 at Kolkata. A total of 1,200 teams participated from all over India.

Quality Circle team Plant AwardAbhinav TWP II Par Excellence AwardTPM Shears WRM West Par Excellence AwardKushal TWP II Excellence AwardSangharsh TWP I Excellence AwardIndradhanushya TWP I Excellence AwardSagar TWP I Distinguish Award

Laurels at the NCQC

Global Wires India’s Quality Circle movement continues to be recognized at multiple forums; this year ABHINAV Quality Circle of TWP-II received the highest “Excellence” award, at the International Convention on Quality Control Circles (ICQCC) 2013 competition held at Taipei, Taiwan. This is the 2nd time in succession after the receipt of the "3 Star" the highest award by KOUSHALYA Quality Circle team in ICQCC 2012 at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia that the Global Wires India teams have been recognized for their efforts.

The ICQCC competition was set-up in 1975 in Seoul, Korea to create an opportunity for exchanging ideas and

experiences on the Quality Circle activities periodically amongst the member countries, so as to result in the development of these activities. Over the years as the International Convention progressed, the number of participating countries has increased. In ICQCC 2013, a total of 281 teams from 12 countries namely India, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, China, Korea, Hong Kong, Thailand, Taiwan, Japan and Philippines participated against a total of 241 QC teams in 2012 in this competition. The achievement of ABHINAV team is thus a proud moment for us at Global Wires and it will inspire more Quality Circle teams from Global Wires to participate actively in the Quality Circle movement and win bigger laurels for the Group.

The ABHINAV QC team of Rajesh Desai, Dinesh Shirgaonkar, Kiran Raut, Thomson Rodrigues, Prathamesh Gawas with Hanumant Gorade as the Facilitator has in the past received the highest award of “GOLD” and “PAR EXCELLENCE” at the local CCQC and National NCQC competitions respectively.

Quality Circle at Indore

Satish Walekar Head Indore Wire plants is maha excited that Quality Circle teams Prayas (PWP) and Utsah (IWP) have bagged Gold awards in QC convention organised by Gwalior chapter at Gwalior on 5th Oct 13 in their very first participation. He explains that it was on Sunil Bhaskaran’s insistence in Feb that Quality Circle training was given to 30 employees from both plants at Indore. 2 teams were then formed and under guidance of Sahil Chandratre and Rakesh Prajapati, both teams completed their projects in 3 months. To give a bigger exposure, Rajiv Soni EIC Global Wires India then asked that the teams participate in an external event. Accordingly in the Gwalior QC convention, where 28 teams from various companies participated; both the teams from Indore Wire Plants won Gold Awards and the right to participate in the National convention to be held at Durgapur.

Abhinav Quality Circle recognized with the highest award at ICQCC 2013 in Taiwan

ABHINAV QC TPM Shears QC

SANGHARSH QC KUSHAL QC

SAGAR QC INDRADHANUSHYA QC

All Teams

ABHINAV QC receiving the award

Memento

Certificate

The Indian Republic Day celebrations started with Guard of Honour followed by National Flag hoisting by Rajiv Kumar Soni EIC Global Wires India with Satish Kumar Chief Operations, Plant heads Sathianathan WRM (W), DH Patil (TWP II) and Union Committee Secretaries MT Pimple, Makarand Patil and Prakash More. The festivities then began with desh-bhakti geet by the security personnel, followed by an invocation and prayer sung by Master Neeraj and his brother Dheeraj Lanjewar with the security team. A quiz was organised for the employees and family members. After which a self defence karate demonstration was done by Ms Tejaswini and Ms Shravani. Awards were also distributed to employees for their exemplary work, contribu-tions to the suggestion box scheme and towards Long Service Awards. Ms Apeksha Runwal (QA) anchored the function. Rajiv Kumar Soni EIC Global Wires addressed the audience and shared the progress made by the BU and the current scenario faced by the company. Satish Kumar Chief Operations and Union Committee member secretaries of each of the plants also expressed their views and their commitment towards working as a team and achieving the targets. BD Patil Senior Manager HRM Wire Plants gave the vote of thanks. The employees and family members then exchanged good wishes on the happy occasion and shared the tasty snacks.

Republic Daycelebrations atGlobal Wires

RK Soni, Satish Kumar and Union Committee members unfurling the National flag.

Marathon race, singing desh-bhakti songs and rewarding employees for their exemplary work in presence of family members.

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The two-way communication forum “Su Samwad” between the senior leadership team of Global Wires India and the Officers and Associates was held both, at Kurgaon, Tarapur and at Borivli (where officers from out-locations also participated via teleconference. Rajiv Soni EIC Global Wires India set the ball rolling by explaining the volume and financial performance of the BU in the 3 Quarters gone by and the projections for the last Quarter. An update on the various initiatives that have been taken up in all the Global Wires units were also presented by Prashant Ursekar, Krishnendu Sanyal, Satish Kumar, Palash Chatterjee, Sunil Nadkarni and Shsihir Desai and discussed in the forum. Various ideas and suggestions to improve the BU performance and speed up these initiatives were also given by the participating officers. Ms Mridula Shekhar [Global Wires Ethics Counsellor] presented an update on the “Ethics” program at Global Wires and gave an update on the various ethical concerns that were received and the actions taken on them.

Concerns to address the Officers personal and collective work issues were also discussed. An update on the action points identified from the last Su Samwad was presented.

Su Samwad held at Tarapur, Borivli and Out-locations

Senior leadership team addressing the Officers and Associates

Q&A session and discussions between leadership team and officers.


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Q&A Session with RK Soni and progress of various initiatives being presented by Sunil Nadkarni, Shashank Tatlkare, Suman Chandrawat, Palash Chatterjee & Prashant Ursekar

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After a year of hard work in making improvements at work and of the various processes and systems, Tata Steel employees look forward to "ASPIRE NITE" the day when the results of their hard work is appreciated by the senior leadership amongst their peers and in front of their family members. Global Wires, India celebrated its "ASPIRE Nite 2013" on 7th Feb'14 at the Kurgaon Club House, Tarapur. The glittering Aspire program of song, dance, film and awards was compered by Vishal Gagrai and Ms Suman Chandrawat. The function began with the traditional lighting of the lamp by Mr Rajiv Soni EIC Global Wires India and a welcome prayer song by the students of the Tarapur Vidya Mandir School. Later the students also performed a musical play on child labour and female infanticide sending a strong message about their adverse impact on the society at large. Both these presentations by the students were received with a huge applause from the audience. Rajesh Santlani Head Improvement & CQH of Global Wires then briefed the audience on the TQM journey at Global Wires,India. Ms. Mridula Shekhar next gave a presentation on “Project Antardrishti”, an initiative for driving customer centricity within the organisation. and an update of the Kar Vijay Har Shikhar initiative in Marketing & Sales. This was followed by a short film made by our young Graduate Engineer Trainees on ‘Customer Centricity’. The subject is of utmost relevance in today’s time and was lucidly conceived and beautifully presented by the young engineers

Mr. Rajiv K Soni, EIC Global Wires, India gave away the Sponsor Level project awards while Mr. Prashant Ursekar, Chief Business Development, Mr. Krishnendu Sanyal, Chief Marketing & Sales, Mr. Pramod Raste, Chief HRM and Mr Satish Kumar Chief Operations gave away the

Champion Level project awards to the various team members; in recognition of the projects which were completed in the FY’13. A total of 96 projects from Global Wires, India were recognised during the function. All the team members were invited with their spouses for the celebration function. Total 243 employees were recognized and the details of the involvement of these

employees in FY’13 improvement projects are as follows -

Mr Rajiv Soni then spoke about the transformation within the Wire units through the implementation of the various improvement initiatives and stressed the need for raising the bar higher with more “black belt” level

projects in the coming year. The function ended with a sumptuous dinner on the lawns of the Kurgaon Club House and merry dancing to the background of popular hindi and marathi songs.

TVM Children with Rajiv Soni

Master of ceremonies

Rajiv Soni EIC Global Wires India

Ms Mridula explaining Antardrishti and KVHS

Rajesh Santlani explaining the Improvement Journey

Category of Improvement Projects Number in FY13

Sponsor level projects 16Champion level projects 92Total employees recognised 220

Global Wires India celebrates its Aspire NiteLighting the Lamp

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Students of TVM School presenting a musical skit

Employees and their families enjoying the Aspire Nite function

RK Soni EIC GWI felicitating the award winning teams

The India Management team led by Rajiv Soni EIC Global Wires India got together for a Strategy Workshop at Global Wires Tarapur. The idea was to take a step back and review the progress against various strategic initiatives, revisit the various assumptions, projects, revisit the changed environ-ment and understand the changes in the customer expectations and market trends. The discussions were led by Prashant Ursekar, Sachin Warang and the marketing team. Various options were identified and teams were formed who were then asked to further develop these ideas.

Morality, Ethical behaviour, Governance - The world and the country today is passing through a period of soul searching; it is no different at Global Wires. To face this grave issue head-on, Ms Mridula Shekhar Ethics Counsellor Global Wires Business organized an Ethics Round Table conference at Tarapur and at Borivli. Senior Leaders at Global Wires such as Rajiv Soni, Prashant Ursekar, Krishnendu Sanyal, Satish Kumar, Shishir Desai were asked to share some of the real life situations and challenges they faced in their careers in walking the ethical path with the employees at Global Wires. Examples where actions were taken against errant employees and other stakeholders were also discussed freely. Relating these experiences many participants in the Conference also shared their experiences and on-going concerns. In the end, all agreed that the Tata Code of Conduct and the strong adherence to ethical conduct within the Group allowed them to become stronger in following the difficult path in face of adversity in the environment.

Ms Tripti Roy Ethics Counsellor Tata Steel Ltd, had a 2 day visit to Borivli and Tarapur to meet Tata Steel employees at Global Wires and CRC West. Ms Tripti Roy participated in the "Hamara Manch" program and interacted with workers at Global Wires India, She took the opportunity to once again create an awareness on ethical behaviour, Tata values, the Tata Code of Conduct and the ASHI policy amongst the workers. Next she had an awareness and interactive session with all officers at Borivli and Tarapur to focus on how to create a positive work atmosphere and on the need for having pro-active discussion on "Ethics" by the senior leadership team in all forums to create an environment where employees are not afraid to speak on ethical concerns.

Strategy Workshopat Wire Division

Ethics Round TableConference atWire Division

Tripti Roy Ethics Counsellor Tata Steel Ltd visits Global Wires


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Ramchandra JadhavGlobal Wires has always been proud of the efforts of its employees in exceeding customer requirements. Taarsansar recounts one such effort by Ramchandra Jadhav an Associate Officer in the Despatch section of TWP I and SSP Plant. On learning of the crisis looming at one of our key customers from Mr KT Prabhu from Sales Planning; Ramchandra Jadhav took it upon himself to go out of his way by coordinating with all the various departments and working beyond working hours to ensure that the consignment was inspected, packed, loaded, invoiced and despatched in a short period of time. The customer too subsequently lauded the efforts of Global Wires which helped it save an embarrassing situation. Ramchandra Jadhav, hats off to you and your efforts. They will, we are sure, inspire many more amongst us.Costing teamCongratulations are due to the team of Mahesh Rawal, Arvind Pimple, Patric Rozario, Kunal Patil, Ms.Neeru Bhasin, Manoj Bahdgar, Ms.KalaDevi and Gopeshkumar Paul, Ms.Gillian Murzello, PB Sonawane, Sandeep Bhosale, Damodar Pohuja, Kunal Khirade, Ramachandra Todkar for having successfully completed the revision and testing of the SAP based standard costing of WRM(W) in the stipulated time under the leadership of T Sathianadhan Head WRM West

Bipin PatilBipin Patil Senior Manager HRM Wire Plants also a keen cricket enthusiast has been appointed to the prestigious “Sepecial Committee for Suburban Cricket” of the Mumbai Cricket Association. As per Bipin, the Committee is responsible for monitoring the cricket in the Mumbai suburbs beyond Bandra and Chembur. The assignment involves giving feedback on the cricket activities in various schools, colleges, offices, clubs and also monitoring the playing conditions and facilities at the various cricket grounds.

Shabash

The EPA Group has welcomed a new member to their team; SASCO Steel at Jamshedpur will join the EPA Group with its barbed wire and binding wire capacities. Mr Dinkar Chavan Head EPA Group welcomed them in his team.

Happenings atEPA Group

Finance and Accounts Strategy Meet

Mr. Sunil Bhaskaran, Deputy Vice President Corporate Services and Mr. Peeyush Gupta Deputy Vice President - Steel Marketing & Sales, (both members of the Global Wires Business Council) visited Pithampur Wire Plant (PWP) on 6th Jan’14. Satish Walekar, Head Indore Operations explained the workings of PWP, including wire rod supplies to Indore plants and the sales planning process in MP. This was followed with a plant visit and a tree plantation ceremony. Mr. Peeyush Gupta appreciated the various working procedures adopted at PWP. Employees of PWP explained various Kaizens and SGAs to visitors while they were on their plant visit. Earlier the KVHS & Star Improvement projects of PWP were presented to Mr. Peeyush Gupta. Both the Dy. VPs also visited the ongoing PCW1 installation site. Mr. Sachin Warang Head Marketing was also present at PWP during this visit.

A 2-day Strategy Meet of Finance and Accounts - Global Wires, India was organized on the 21st and 22nd of February, 2014 at Kurgaon Learning Centre, Tarapur. Mr Jayanta Chakraborty, CFC (FR&CT) graced the meet with his presence. Guided by the opening note from FC(GW) and the Voice of the Internal Customers, the theme for FY’15 was formulated as ‘Be a Value Focused Business Partner’. The teams deliberated on the strategic objectives to be undertaken by F&A for FY’15 within themselves in the breakout sessions. Each of the 5 teams then presented and discussed their view points on the role of F&A in the challenging times of FY 15 and the contribution that it can make to the business. CFC shared the expectations of the Senior Leadership Team from F&A and provided valuable guidance and direction to the team to fulfill the same. Knowledge Management sessions were conducted by External Speakers from Tata Steel-Head Office and also by the internal speakers, contributing to the Learning and Development requirement of the group. The second day of the meet involved an active participation of all the members in the Debate, followed by a Panel Discussion and a very engaging Quiz on general awareness. The session concluded with an Open Dialogue with FC(GW).

Toshihiro Kido

Iran Delegation Toshihiko Niki MD SHST

Rajiv Ranjan

Mr Sunil Bhaskaran, Mr Peeyush Gupta with Pithampur Wire plant team

Mr Suresh Dutt Tripathi VP HRM with RK Soni, S Gupte and HRM Team at Tarapur

Visitors to GWB

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Murad is the team leader for Project Antardrishti. Murad describes himself as the “Air Traffic Controller” for the team; responsible for ensuring that Antardrishti has a ‘safe and smooth’ flight. Antardrishti, he says, was an opportunity to drive high impact solution across the entire organization. Partnering with a dedicated and highly committed team with high aspirations was extremely fulfilling on a personal level. There have been many wonderful experiences from Antardrishti, from visiting homes of rural farmers, to watching the first Farming Gold truck leave the factory – its hard to pick just one

Inder modestly describes himself as ‘facilitator – motivator’ of the team. Antardrishti he says has given him an opportunity to drive real change within the organization. The shared feeling of ‘oneness and of working towards a common goal’ with the GWI team has translated the initiative into one with a tremendous momentum. Further he says Antardrishti has given him many unique, diverse and memorable experiences. The standout experience was in Rajasthan where they were persuaded by the family to travel as “Baratees” (part of the grooms’ entourage to his wedding) when their interviews held up the wedding party.

Mridula is the driving force of Project Antardrishti; so much so that she has become the “face” of Project Antardrishti. Its no wonder when she says that the project has been the best learning and enriching experience that I have had, a platform to test my leadership skills. Working with a diverse team of professionals and consultants has also taught me new skills. An experience she will remember was the shocked look the security officer at Jaipur airport gave her and enquired if cucumbers are not available in Mumbai. The cucumbers were a gift that a farmer gave her while she was interviewing him on way to the airport.

Arjun describes his role in Antardrishti as helping in building capabilities through ‘learning, doing and learning’. Antardrishti says Arjun was his first experience in the Retail space. He says the project highlighted the importance of learning and co-creating together. Of the project team, he says he will fondly remember the fun of working and celebrating successes together. Arjun will definitely remember the project, for the congratu-latory pats and smiles he got from his team as shyly broke the news of his engagement while working on the project. The most cherished experience for Arjun, was like a proud father, witnessing the manufacture of the first bundle of “Farming Gold” galvanized wire based on Antardrishti team’s

conception, at the Tarapur Wire Plant-II.

The “Wire Gyani” in the Antardrishti team. Shashank was the one who brought the wealth of his earlier knowledge and experiences of retailing galvanized wires and RVM to the project. Shashank says he had heard about “Customer Centricity” but Project Antardrishti laid the process for creating this focus within the Organization. He further adds

that, “we could feel the power of this (NPS) tool as it aligned people across different functions by engaging directly with the customers and understanding their pain points to create solutions”. Sustained efforts emerging out of Project Antardrishti will create a major differentiator for Global Wires India. A standout experience was meeting farmers in their homes and understanding their lifestyles. He said many of these farmers were simple, humble and willing to share ideas with us.

Project Antardrishti has been a path breaking initiative for Global Wires India (GWI). In the short 8 months of its existence the initiative has brought many insights into the customer mindset, made changes in our customer facing processes and in particular has brought focus to the customer centricity within the organization. The high powered Antardrishti team led by Indervir Singh from Bain & Co and Ms Mridula Shekhar from GWI under the overall responsibility of Murad Nathani has been working tirelessly on this project. Taarsansar got talking to the team so as to introduce its members to our readers.


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Indervir Singh,

Manager at Bain & Co

Mridula Shekhar,Senior Manager

Global Wires India

Arjun Upmanyu,

Consultant at Bain & Co

Shashank Tatkare,Manager Retail

Global Wires India

Murad Nathani

Principal at Bain & Co

Shalabh says the team will remember him for his near constant talking about SFE targets, PJP’s and compensations. He says he cherished the rich experience that Project Antardrishti gave him and the spirited

manner in which the team daily tackled the new challenges, in face of the tough environment. Shalabh has been the “Foodie” in the team and

he remembers with relish the dinner and ice-cream parties and misses the namkeen evening snacks as the team worked on meeting project

targets. The other feature, he will dearly miss are the visits into India’s hinterland and meeting people from varied backgrounds.

Vanashree became the NPS Analyst of Project Antardrishti. The team called her, the “Cookie monster” of the team for the variety of cookies that she always had and was finishing off daily. Project Antardrishti has been Vanashree’s first experience of retailing. She says the structured approach helped her understand the nuances of channel management and functioning. Working with Bain & Co taught her the power of using analysis of presently available information to gain more insights into the market and improve understanding of consumer behaviour. She says she will forever remember the warmth she felt every time while speaking directly to customers and hearing first hand their experiences of being a happy Tata Wiron customer for more than two decades.

Dhruva is the IT wizkid, the marathoner team member monitoring NPS and Call Centre. He says the friendliness and the willingness of Global Wires customers to take time out for prolonged discussions with the team members, was an eye opener. For Dhruva who kept the team surprised with his steady stream of new electronic gadgets; an experience that will remain etched in his memory is that of the son of a poor (not so well off) farmer in rural India pulling out a smart phone to explain the app that he diligently uses to monitor the weather. Dhruv says the penetration of technology and the empowerment it has given to rural India is quite amazing.

Vishal was the team’s points man for dealing with the ad agency. Vishal says that Project Antardrishti has been a great exposure for him into our retail business and of understanding the nuances of the distribution network. He says, Bain taught me to interpret numbers using analytics. He remembers his first experience of directly engaging with retailers during the various NPS training programs that he conducted. He said it was always an eye opener when the retailers raised points that the team had not heard before or had not thought through them.

Maruti is the team analyst. Market, competition, financials, and resources he had all the analysis at hand for the team to work on. From Project Antardrishti, Maruti says, he saw firsthand how large organizations drove success along with their legacy of embedded values and principles. This he saw in the strong relationship and mutual trust that exists between Tata Steel, its Channel and its Customers. He says along with the project he has developed new friends in rural India with whom he now regularly chats on all topics including “Jalebi” making.

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Shalabh Singawne,Senior Associate Consultant

at Bain & Co

Vanashree Shende,

Manager QA,

Global Wires India

Dhruva Shah,Associate Consultantat Bain & Co

Vishal Gagrai,

Manager Marketing,

Global Wires India

Maruti S Telra,Associate Consultantat Bain & Co


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Grand Opening ceremony for TSN Wires, Thailand

Warm rays of sunshine graced the sky ushering a new era for Siam Industrial Wire, Thailand (a Tata Steel Global Wires Business) and Nichia Steel

Works, Japan (an affiliate of Nippon Steel and Sumitomo Metal

Corporation) with the grand opening of the TSN Wires factory on the 18th of October 2013 in Rayong Province, Thailand. TSN Wires Co., Ltd. is a 60:40 joint venture between The Siam Industrial Wire Co., Ltd, (the leading PC wire and strand manufacturer in ASEAN) and Nichia Steel Works Co., Ltd, (the market and technology leader in galvanized wire in Japan).

Mr. Urit Srinongkote (Secretary-General of Thai Industrial Standards Institute, Ministry of Industry), Mr. Tiwa Prom-In (Head of Bankhai District, Rayong Province), Mr. Sunil Bhaskaran (Chairman, Tata Steel Global Wires Business), Mr. Ichiro Kawamura (President, Nichia Steel Works), Mr. Tomoaki Nakagawa (Head of Bar & Wire

Rod Unit, Nippon Steel &

Sumitomo Metal Corporation),

Mr Vivek

Kamra (President and CEO, NatSteel), Mr Peeyush Gupta (President and CEO, Tata Steel Thailand) and Mr Yeoh Choon Kwee (Senior Vice President, NatSteel and Founding Managing Director, TSN Wires) graced the TSN Wires grand opening ceremony.

Along with the VIPs, senior officials from TISI and local government officials, community leaders from Bankhai and Nikkom Pattana Districts, partners and friends of TSN Wires from Thailand and overseas were received and welcomed by Mr. Chong Pek Hoong (Managing Director, TSN Wires), Mr Naoki Terakawa (VP-Commercial, TSN Wires), Mr Jumpon Kawewong (VP-Operations, TSN Wires) along with the staff of both TSN Wires and SIW.

The program began with the MD thanking the guests for gracing the opening of the TSN Wires factory with their presence. He stressed about how TSN Wires is “truly a Thai-Japanese partnership” and expressed his gratitude to everyone who helped and supported the company since its incorporation. Following the MD, the Chairman of Tata Steel Global Wires Business, Mr. Sunil Bhaskaran congratulated the TSN Wires team on the momentous occasion. He reminisced about how TSN Wires was born on 5th April 2012 when Mr Yeoh Choon Kwee (Former Managing Director of SIW) and Mr Ichiro Kawamura signed the joint venture agreement to set up TSN Wires and said that TSN Wires was formed with the best of the combination of Japanese, Thai and Indian cultures. The President of Nichia Steel Works, Mr Ichiro Kawamura also spoke about how he was believed in the success of TSN Wires fuelled by the hard work and unity of all colleagues in Thailand, Japan and India.

Showcasing this union of cultures, the guests were presented with a dance which highlighted the cultures and traditions of Japan, India and Thailand put up by the TSN colleagues. This was followed by the mix performance of drum rituals of Thailand and Japan depicting the team work and camaraderie of the Thai and Japanese people in TSN Wires. After the performances, the VIPs along with the MD cut the ribbon and open a big sake container to signal the inauguration of the TSN Wires factory. The guests were then invited to a factory tour where the wire making process was showcased to them. Following the factory visit, a delicious lunch served to the guests.

At the end of the ceremony, the guests were presented with a memorabilia of the occasion as a token of appreciation from TSN Wires

Mr Yeoh ex-MD SIW and Mr Chong MD SIW & TSN Wires

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Happenings at SIW

Keeping up with the tradition of hosting a green market with the objective of encouraging the concept of recycling, organic farming and engagement with the community in Rayong, the SIW factory hosted the 5th Green Market.Employees, contractors and the Rayongcommunity came together to sell and buy a variety of items as such organic vegetables and fruits, second-hand clothes, handicrafts, etc. turning the factory into a busy and vibrant market.Given the success and the participation of both employees and community, SIW now plans to make the Green Market a regular event and will be holding it once a month.

The students at the WatNong-kra-Bok School were in for a treat on National Children’s Day (celebrated on every second Saturday of January in Thailand) as the team from SIW and TSN organized a fun-filled outing for the children as part of the CSR program involving the community around our Rayong factory.A massive group involving 650 children, teachers, parents and volunteers took part in the various games and picnic that was organized by the teams. Deserving students were also provided scholarships to encourage and motivate the students in the school. In addition a health camp and hair cutting camp were also organized to ensure that the children were fit, healthy and smart for the school year ahead.

2 projects from SIW Thailand have qualified under the “Promising Innova-tions” category of the regional rounds of TATA Innovista 2014. The first project was based on an innovation to increase the productivity of the Chevron Wire line and the second project was on the use of rope sling to reduce the setup time in PC Strand line operations.The two projects were among the top 12 innovation initiatives competing with entries across the group companies in the Asia Pacific region. Both teams will be proceeding to Singapore next on the 28th of February to fight it out and book places in the grand finale of Innovista 2014 in India.Adding to the selection results, Miss Jiratiwan (daughter of K Sompong from the Finance and Credit Section) has been also awarded this year’s “Tata Young Expressions” award.

“Green Market” for employees held at SIW factory

SIW & TSN Wires volunteers have fun with school children

Mr Nipon handing over sports kits to the school representatives

SIW bags a place in the Asia Pacific Regional Round of Tata Innovista

“Ape Vedikava” (Hamara-Manch) is conducted every month in LSSL and all associates actively participate and share their experience and knowledge on Safety, SGA and other activities of plant operation . In this one hour sessionof every month, various positive things get discussed including 100% attendance, appreciation on good work, SGA awards and celebration of Group Birth days for the month. Quarterly participation of CEO / CWB encourages and motivate the employees for keep moving with Good work/ Practices.

Shifted one of the redrawing machineto a new location due to safety reasons as earlier location was cramped and we were not using the machine. We have now two machines to take sizes 1.60 / 1.80 mm and can achieve volume up to 125 to 150 MT per month.Relocated Redraw machine inaugurated on 1st Jan,2014 and started operation.

GI Line Take up drive from single speed has been modified to twin speed resulting in different speed for size 2 mm & above. Due to this pattern lying has improved & thus the coil shape.

As per Rewards scheme for Employee’s children Two best perfor-mance in Grade 5 Scholarship exam ” (Primary), has been awarded.

New Year’2014 is celebrated at LSSL plant with Machines pooja, Blessings from Buddhist Monk for all round growth and safety of organization followed by distribution of New Yearcalendar and diaries to all employees.

Two printing units with four heads have been installed for Printing on wire. The plan is to supply printed wires to Indian market. So far 4 containers of Printed barbed Wireshave been supplied to Indian Market.

“Ape- Vedikava” session start with safety pledge and 5S pledge.

Blessings from Buddhist Monk

Print On wire

Distribution of New Year calendar and diaries to all employees by CEO and CWB.

EXISTING One speed set up at take UP Additional Set up for Doublespeed from other end.

Quarterly participation of CEO / CWB encourages and motivatethe employees for keep moving with Good work/ Practices.

New Year Function

Redrawing Machine Relocation

New Initiatives at LSSL : Operation Young Achievers

Mr Madhusanka (AM-QA) explaining the trend of plant yield for the month in comparison to previous year , while Mr. Jayakantha ( Technical Supervisor )

explaining on SGA activities .

Baby NethmiAmasha , D/O Mr. M. N. Gamini , Sr Supervisor LSSL. Passed

the Grade 5 scholarship Examination ‘2013 with flying colors.

Master UdithPerera S/O Mr. AD GihanPerera, Fork Lift Operator

LSSL , Passed the Grade 5 Scholarship Examination ‘2013 with flying colors.

Machine Pooja by Mr Srivatsan (CEO) , Mr Bharat ( CWB), Mr Anton( H-PO)

Shifted one of the redrawing machine to a new location due to safety reasons as earlier location was cramped and

we were not using the machine.

Two printing units with four heads have been installed for Printing on wire.

“Ape Vedikava”

Happenings at Lanka SSL

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Tata Steel’s Global Wires India, Cricket team has done it proud by winning the Tata Inter Company T-20 Cricket tournament 2014. This is the 13th occasion

that the Global Wires India cricket team has reached to the finals and the 11th time that it has won the title. This year the “Tata Inter Company T-20 tournament” was held at the Kurgaon Cricket Club grounds in Tarapur. A total of five teams from Tata Capital, Tata Services, Tata Consultancy, Tata Power and Tata Steel Global Wires participated in T-20 Cricket tournament. The tournament was inaugurated by BP Satishkumar Chief Operations Global Wires and SP Gupte Chief CRC (West). The final match was played between Global Wires India and Tata Power, where Global Wires beat Tata Power by 23 runs. Tushar Gharat from Global Wires was adjudged as “Man of the Match” and the “Best Bowler” of the tournament. Kaustub Pawar from Tata Capital was the “Best Batsman”, while Ketan Meher from Global Wires was the “Man of the Tournament Series”. Dilip Vengsarkar, former India Cricket Captain was the Chief Guest while Rajiv Soni EIC Global Wires India and Milind Gunjal Head HR & Administration Tata Motors and former cricketer were the Guests of Honour at the prize distribution ceremony.

The lush green cricket ground at Kurgaon, Tarapur of the Global Wires India has always been its pride possession. Professional cricketers have loved playing on this ground. Global Wires on its part has always lent it to Board of Cricket Control in India (BCCI), Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA), Tata Sports Club and other premier cricket bodies to use the facilities for their tournaments and to allow national teams to practice there unhindered before departing on their overseas tours. Recently “BCCI - Under-19 Women’s One Day Super League Cum Knock-Out Cricket tournament” was held on these Kurgaon grounds from 7th Nov to 15th Nov’13. State teams from Himachal, Assam, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra participated in the tournament. The BCCI’s National Selection Committee was also present and watched the budding women cricketers.

Sonal Nagotanekar, daughter of Sanjay Nagotanekar in F&A department has been selected for the J N Tata Loan Scholarship for higher studies abroad for the year 2013-2014. Sonal has been pursuing her Master Course in Accessories Design (MAD) from the Domus Academy, Milan, Italy, which is a world renowned fashion academy. Sonal earlier completed her Bachelor of Design (Leather Design) from the prestigious National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT), Kolkata. During pre-admission process, the Domus Academy, Milan conducted a “ARS SUTORIA” competition; wherein from the dozens of participations received from across the world, the Jury appreciated the high quality of Sonal’s project and awarded a “Special Mention” which included a scholarship of 25% on the total tuition fee of the Master Course in MAD.Additionally the Jamsetji Tata Trust further awarded Sonal a cash reward of Rs 3.20 lakhs based on her performance at the Domus Academy, Italy, to facilitate her studies.Here’s wishing Sonal ‘All the Very Best’ in her studies and for the bright future ahead.

The Global Wires India team of Sanjay Bandiwadekar, Sandeep Ghadi, Parag Tambe and Rakesh Kathade were the Runners-up at the Inter TATA Carrom Tournament 2014, held at Tata Steel Ltd, Jamshedpur.

Tejaswini & Shravani More have won Gold and Silver medals respectively at the 1st Indo-UK Konjaku Shin Cup 2013 organized under the auspices of Indian Karate Academy Shotokan in Mumbai.

Sanjay Bandiwadekar from TWP2 won “Gold” medal in 400 meters hurdles race and “Bronze” medal in high jump at the Maharashtra State Masters’ Athletic meet 2013-2014 held at the DadojiKonddev stadium, Thane in December’13

Global Wires India wins the TATA InterCompany T-20 Cricket Tournament 2014

India National “Under19 Women’s Cricket”tournament held at Kurgaon Cricket grounds

Global Wires are“Runners-up” at theInter-TataCarrom tournament

Congratulations

A carom, badminton and chess tournament was organized during Dec’13 where the employees of F&A participated in the enthralling matches.


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Birthday Celebrations

Medical health check-up camp: Global Wires and TMRCT Hospital (managed by Thunga Hospital) organized a free health check-up camp for Mundavali villagers. A total of 130 villagers took benefit of the camp which was conducted under the guidance of Dr. Rajesh Pakhare (Orthopaedic), Dr Ashwin Kumar (Physician), Dr. Heena (Paediatrician) & their team. Free Medicines were also distributed to the patients. Ms. Kanchan Thakur (CSR co-ordinator) and CSR Volunteers from Global Wires Ms. Apeksha Runwal, Mr.Rajesh Shetty, Mr. A S Patel and Mr. Nilesh Bachhe coordinated in making the arrangements. Sports kits distributed to ZP School : Sports kits for cricket, footballs, carrom board and badminton were given to the Mundavali Zilla Parishad school to promote sports amongst the children by the Global Wires CSR team of Sathianthan (Plant Head WRM [W]), Rupesh Kismatarao, Kunal Khirade, Apeksha Runwal, Kanchan Kashikar, Rajesh Shetty, A.S Patel and Nilesh BachheEye check-up camp with Bhakti Vedanta hospital : The Global Wires CSR team of Ms. Trupti Sarode, Ms. Kanchan Kashikar, Rajesh Shetty, Santosh Tare and Rajesh Vartak and the Bhakti Vedanta hospital team organized a cataract eye check-up camp in Mundavali village. 65 persons attended the camp in which 8 were detected with cataract. 2 of these patients availed the free surgery sponsored jointly by Global Wires with Bhakti Vedanta hospital and successfully underwent the cataract operations at the Bhakti Vedanta hospital subsequently.

TIS WISH is a social service organization run by spouses of Tata Steel officers. In 25 years since its inception, TIS WISH has become a platform for the ladies to carry out programs to spread joy to the underprivileged in the villages in and around Tarapur. The following activities provide a glimpse of its activities -

• Medical aid: These include costs towards surgery, treatment and hospitalization extended to few underprivileged persons for severe ailments such as congenital heart, neurological and gastrointestinal ailments.

• Education: Distribution of notebooks to students in zilla parishad schools and providing amenities such as solar lamps at girls’ hostel and carpets to the boys’ hostel in shigaon.

• Creating awareness on issues such as environment through tree plantation, arranging lecture of Dr Shweta Sonawane to spread awareness on breast cancer and by Dr Sheetal Mhamunkar on “Preventive Nutritional Health”

• Fund raising through “exhibition cum sale” at PDSS Hall, TAPS Colony. Sale of old news paper & waste material. Sale of “Eco-friendly diyas” made by underprivileged women under the aegis of Project Ujjwal and the sale of “SWAAD” a recipe book created by TIS WISH members.

Mundavali village has been adopted by Global Wires India as part of its CSR initiative. Some of the activities that were conducted by the CSR volunteers are:

Enosh birthday

Birth day Vishal Patil Rakesh Malhotra

Francis, Geetika, Suman, Sandhya and NeeruBirth day

Birth day Hemant Vaidya Satish Kumar COO with Plant team

Birth day Mr.Deepak Yogesh Chavan Sanjay Bandivadekar DH Patil

YummyBirthday

Cake

Mahesh Patil with his sales team

Modern day working style puts a lot of stress on all of us. Also sadly, most of it is done sitting at one place in front of a computer with a cell phone and other gadgets, without much physical activity. While we cannot avoid this routine, we can at least look at eating food which can help us to counter the sedentary life style. Here are some food items when taken in moderation that will help you to fight blood pressure, improve memory and concentration

WalnutsWhile all kind of nuts reduce the risk of heart decease, walnuts are supposed to contain higher amounts of good quality antioxidants than peanuts, almonds pistachios etc. Experts recommend at least seven walnuts a day. They have been found helpful in controlling Alzheimer’s decease in animals.

Green TeaGreen tea contains elements that help fight cancer of skin and prostrate. Polyphenols are the main ingredient of green tea, which repairs damage DNA to stimulate immune system.

PopcornSurprise, surprise!! Popcorns are made of 100% whole grain and are a good source of fibers and antioxidants. A pack of popcorns is a healthy snack to be kept handy at office. However, you need to ensure it contains minimum of salt. Low sodium variety of popcorns is the answer.

Dark ChocolatesUsually chocolates are considered to be enemy of good health. However, dark chocolates are an exception. They contain powerful antioxidants called polyphenols which help reduce risk of heart decease and inhibit clotting of arteries. People with mild hypertension are recommended to consume one small bar of dark chocolate every day. Dark chocolate also contains caffeine which provides the much needed energy boost for concentration.

FruitsApples, bananas, papaya, oranges or mangoes – each of these fruit have abundant nutrients and they will help you to fight ‘hunger pangs’ and keep going. Replace your oily, greasy evening snacks of potato wada, samosa & fries with these fresh fruits and feel the difference.

Five Healthy Foods toEat at workplace


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Sanjiv Pradhan showcasing with pride the Vatika and its various herbs to RK Soni EIC GWI and other officers

Dhanvantari Vatikastarts bloomingThe nursery at the Kurgaon Housing complex to develop medicinal plants has started blooming under the tender care of Sanjiv Pradhan and his team of gardeners. Sanjiv is expectedly excited as he shows the various plants and explains the various medicinal properties of each of them to the many visitors who come to the nursery. The nursery was started to create awareness of the many plants recommend-ed for their healing powers under vedic medicine. To the uninitiated visitor, Sanjiv has erected a board at the gate which identifies the Latin name and their corresponding colloquial names in local languages for each of the plant and their expected benefits. Seeing the positive awareness that has been generated from this one acre nursery, Rajiv Soni EIC Global Wires India has asked Sanjiv Pradhan to extend the nursery to cover other fruits and vegetables using the wire cages and wire systems developed by the Wire Technology teams.

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Transfers in Global Wires India

Transfers out of Global Wires India

Pradeep Sonawane is promoted as Head Operations WRM. He will report to Head WRM and operate

from Tarapur.

Damodar S Pohuja is promoted as Head Maintenance WRM. He will report to Head WRM

and operate from Tarapur.

Mr Devendra H Patil is promoted as Head Manufacturing (LRPC, GI and Allied Products)

TWP-II

Mr Sanjay Sarda is promoted as Senior Manager Accounts in Tarapur Common Services

Mr Deepak Jain is appointed as Manager Accounts in Tarapur Common Services. He will operate from Tarapur

Mr SB Bidikar is transferred as Head EPA from Head Manufacturing (Auto & Allied Products) TWP-I

Mr. Anurag Aggarwal, Senior Manager Sales North, M&S is transferred to

Tata Communications Ltd.

Mr Enosh Nikhil C is transferred to Manager Marketing in M&S at Borivli from Manager EPA Hyderabad

Mr Anand Biyani is transferred as Management Trainee Systems (IT) in Tarapur Common Services from MT Systems (IT) Jamshedpur

Mr Dinkar Chavan is transferred as Head Special Projects in EIC GWI Office from Head EPA

Mr SP Prasad is transferred as Senior Manager Marketing-Institutional Business in M&S Department

from Senior Manager Sales Retail at Kolkatta

M. K. Desai Senior Manager Physical, QA is seconded to Natsteel Holdings

Singapore as Head MCQ

Mr. Pradeep Poojari Manager (Financial Accounting) at Global Wires India is transferred to Corporate Finance &

Banking as Manager Corporate Finance Tata Steel Ltd

Mr Prashant Kuwar is appointed as Manager Operations at TWP 1

Mr Rakesh Kumar Rana is appointed as Manager EEI (Electrical Maintenance) Wire Plants in Tarapur Common Services

Mr Vivek Mundhra is appointed as Manager F&A in the Wires Division at Borivali.

Promotions and Appointments at Global Wires are as follows:


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Long Service Awards

AA Patil 30 years

GS Keshwani 30 years

NN Angre 30 years

Ramesh N Shastri 25 years

Shrirang Datar 20 years

Ashok Kalothia 20 years

Kanchan K Choudhury 30 years

Patrick Rozario 20 years

Robby DSilva 30 Years

SN Joshi 30 years Bipin D Radhod 25 years

Nand Kishore Modi 30 years

Pradeep Sonawane 20 years Satish Kumar 20 years

VK Mhatre 35 years

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