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Mr. Sardar Singh Rathi is a Whole Time Director & Plant Head at Nalwa Steel and Power Limited since October 2014. He is basically a Mechanical Engineer with M. Tech, having a vast and diversified experience of 39 years, out of which he has spent more than 28 years with Jindal group starting from Hisar, Raigarh and Angul.
Mr. Rathi had joined O.P. Jindal Group in 1986 at Hisar and worked around 19 years with Founding Chairman of O.P. Jindal Group, Shri Om Prakash Jindal Ji (Babuji). This experience is most cherishable to him and he still follows the amazing style of working which has won him lot of accolades within and outside the Group Companies. Mr. Rathi's work span at JSPL Raigarh is about 20 years and in which he was actively involved in most of the landmark Projects like DRI, Power Plant, Steel Melting Shop, Rail and Universal Beam Mill, Blast Furnace, Plate Mill, major Water Supply Projects of JSPL, which has enabled him to gain overall expert knowledge of the entire Steel & Power Sector. Before joining NSPL, he worked at JSPL Angul for around 5 years and successfully completed one of the most prestigious project of JSPL i.e. 5 Meter wide Plate Mill with state of the art technology, which is the widest plate Mill in India and one of the widest in the world. Subsequently he also contributed significantly in coal gasification project of JSPL Angul before embarking upon a new and challenging journey as Director and Plant Head of Nalwa Steel and Power Limited, Raigarh.
He is a firm believer of team work, and his unparalleled team work has resulted in many successful projects in JSPL Raigarh & Angul which were undertaken by him. His motto towards work is detailed deliberation, transparency and quality approach to any given task which makes him unique in his strides towards success. He pays importance of giving the utmost attention to the minutest details, to think and to be exact and precise. His striving for perfection, his meticulousness in whatever he did, is the most distinctive aspect of his personality. His style of making judgment is by assigning and assessing the job done before deciding anything as good or otherwise. Mr. Rathi is not only a strong proponent of "Imaandari" and "Mehnat" but also a God fearing and warm hearted person. He believes that Winning doesn't always mean being first, Winning means doing better than before. His mantra for success and satisfaction is "know more than others, work more than others and expect less than others".
He is a well-known personality in the field of Crane Manufacturing also and his contribution in this field is remarkable. He has designed and manufactured more than 500 Cranes up to 500 MT Capacity and up to 45 meter Span. Under his leadership JSPL has won National Level Awards of the likes of Vishwakarma Award and Prime Minister's Shram Shree Award.
After the successful journey of 28 years at Jindal Steel and Power Limited, Mr. Rathi had started working with Nalwa Steel and Power Limited as a Whole Time Director and Plant Head. Working here for more than 8 years, he developed a culture where safety (for both Men and Machine) has the utmost priority of the plant followed by environment, quality and then production. It helps in creating the safe and positive environment in the company. As a result of this culture development, NSPL won the prestigious International Safety Award 2017, organized by British Safety Council, UK and many more from other renowned organisations.
He always believe in focused responsibility that’s why he assigned the focused responsibility to his team in such a systematic manner so that perfect quality, timely deliveries, competitive pricing, and enduring relationship could be ensured in all respect.
Under his remarkable leadership, during the COVID-19 pandemic particularly, NSPL was successful in keeping their employees and their family members safe. As a result of that NSPL won the prestigious Diamond Award from FAME excellence for best practices to fight against COVID-19.
His concept of Operational Excellence benefited the NSPL in many ways to improve the plant efficiency and cost competitiveness. Various energy conservations initiatives have been taken under the flag of Operational Excellence. And it is the concentrated effort which leads to the National Energy Conservation Awards 2019, given by Government of India (For excellence in Energy Conservation). Encon and CII are other prominent organisation who recognised the NSPL energy conservation initiatives.
He also developed a Team of young leaders. Under his inspired leadership Nalwa Steel and Power is all set to write a new chapter of progress and prosperity. To achieve the set goals and contribute towards the growth of the company, he streamlined all the NSPL departments as a one team.
The motivation and training skills that he imparted to the NSPL Team members results in outshining the Team performance in their previous as well as in present endeavours. His continuous efforts accelerated the growth of the NSPL Company in terms of production, sales and financial.
An International Level Magazine “The CEO Magazine” has published an article based on his interview highlighting the various achievements of NSPL in terms of Safety, Environment, Energy Conservation and CSR, along with Vision, Mission and Core Values.https://digitalmag.theceomagazine.com/sardar-singh-rathi/?r=global
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