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Kirloskar Brothers awarded at
Africa-India Partnership Summit
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All-women
Coimbatore plant bags ‘Best Organization for Women Talent Development’
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All-women Coimbatore plant
bags ‘Best Organization for Women Talent Development’
Kirloskar Brothers Ltd (KBL), a leading global fluid management company
has been conferred with the ‘Best Organization for Women Talent
Development’ award for its Coimbatore plant, by the 3rd Africa Women
Leadership Awards held at Mauritius. The Awards were organised by the
Africa India Partnership Summit to identify and celebrate outstanding
leadership and achievements demonstrated by women leaders in various
private and public sectors.
KBL is the only engineering company in India which operates with 100% female
associates in the manufacturing process. The Women Leadership Award is
recognition to the efforts made by KBL’s all women Coimbatore plant that
was established in 2011. The plant which is equipped with state of the
art facility manufactures different models of domestic pumps and has 62
women between the age group of 19 to 30 employed on the shop floor. KBL
provides an intense industrial training of two months to all the women
recruited at the plant.
The award ceremony was attended by several leaders and decision makers,
bureaucrats from various participating countries and numerous senior
professionals across industries.
Dr. R.V. Raj Kuumar, Divisional Head of KBL’s Coimbatore plant said, “The
Women Leadership Award highlights the achievements and capabilities of
our female employees to perform any task with complete diligence, and we
are very proud of our workforce at the Coimbatore facility. This platform
provides inspiration to young women by urging them to assume leadership
positions and to compete in the corporate and labor market. It also draws
attention of senior leaders of various institutions towards the role of
women in the development of society and compels them to support this
cause by building constructive ideas.”
In 2011, the workers at the plant took 60 seconds to assemble a pump. The
female associates have significantly reduced this time to 20 seconds in
April 2013, which has tripled the plant’s production to 34,000 pumps per
line per month. Around 500,000 high quality pumps are manufactured in
this facility per year with an extremely negligible rejection rate of
less than 0.005 %.
The India–Africa Forum Summit is the official platform for the
African-Indian relations. It was first held from April 4 to 8, 2008 in
New Delhi, India. The Summit is intended to reinforce the
multidimensional relations existing between Africa and India, and share
benefit from the rich historical background as well as natural resources
of both Africa and India. The objective behind the awards is to showcase
the best women employing organizations, talent and women professionals
from different parts of GCC and Asia. The Jury constitutes of
professionals from different parts of the world. These professionals are
notable experts from the industrial fraternity as well as experts from
local and international blue-chip.
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Infoline News Service140305
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