Amul bags BIS quality award

By Our Special Correspondent

NEW DELHI, NOV. 12. The Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation at Anand, makers of Amul, and Tata Cummins, Jamshedpur, today won the Rajiv Gandhi National Quality award announced by the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS).

The quality award for large scale manufacturing industry went to Lakshmi Machine Works (textile machinery division), Coimbatore, while the award for the service sector was given to Honeywell India Software Operation Private Limited, Bangalore. The awards were given by the Minister for Food and Consumer Affairs, Mr. Shanta Kumar.

The quality award for the small scale manufacturing industry was shared by John's Umbrella Mart and Popy Umbrella Mart, Allepey. Commendation certificates were also issued under categories of electrical and electronic industry, engineering, food and drug industry, metallurgical industry and textile industry. Under the service sector, the Housing and Urban Development Corporation Limited (HUDCO) won the award for 1999.

Speaking on the occasion, Mr. Shanta Kumar expressed concern over the result of a recent survey conducted by the BIS which showed that the gold jewellery at some shops in Delhi, Japiur and Hyderabad did not conform to standards.

The Minister of State for Consumer Affairs, Mr. V. Sreenivasa Prasad, who is also the Vice-President of BIS, urged organisations to institute ongoing assessment of their quality for greater consumer satisfaction.

The Rajiv Gandhi National Quality Awards have been designed by BIS on lines of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Awards, U.S., Deming Prize in Japan and the European Quality Award. It is based on Total Quality Management Award. The winners are selected by the National Awards Committee chaired by the Secretary, Department of Consumer Affairs.

PTI reports:

Pizza factory by March

Enthused by brisk sales of its fast food items, Amul will set up a Rs. 20 crore ready-made frozen pizza factory in Gandhinagar. ``The state-of-the-art manufacturing unit with a capacity to produce one lakh pizzas a day will be operational within four months", Managing Director of Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation (Amul) Mr. B. M. Vyas said here.

He said the new unit would ensure sustained availability of pizzas all over the country with strict standardisation of various ingredients and final product to maintain uniform quality in the face of increasing competition.

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