It is always a delight to receive messages from our fans.. and one particular message was extra special!
Gaurav Yadav, one of our Facebook fans shared this miniature of the MF 5245 which he had made back in 8th grade during his summer vacations!
Isn’t it cute?
After hardwork comes….CELEBRATION!
Corporate Office employees gathered at the HR space earlier today to celebrate TAFE’s recent recognition of being named ‘Best Employer of India’ under the Aon Hewitt Study 2.0.
After all the hardwork, it was time for team TAFE to pat themselves on the back..and have some great cake!
During the cake cutting, many senior members of TAFE shared their experiences at work and appreciated each and every employee and manager for making this possible.
Here are some pictures!
“TAFE is working on relevant technologies for small farms, we have started the Application Business Unit – a wide range of products and accessories. We will pay more attention to promote and encourage environmental-friendly practices.”
– Mallika Srinivasan, TAFE Chairman and CEO, in an interview for the Mint newspaper.
With great pride, we share that TAFE has been named the Best Employer in India, 2013, by Aon Hewitt, through the Aon Hewitt Best Employers 2.0 Study. This study is based on a newly designed model for defining best employers and involves four measurable factors – high employee engagement, a compelling employer brand, effective leadership, and a high performance culture.
Many organisations aspire to be recognised through Aon Hewitt, and we were among the 17 companies which were handpicked from different sectors spread across the country. Our sustained focus on attracting and retaining talent has been given a special mention.
On this note, our Chairman and CEO, Mallika Srinivasan shared a few words of appreciaton – “As an ambitious, value driven organisation with global aspirations, TAFE strongly believes that its people are its most important asset. They are an integral part of our value system and we provide an environment that nurtures high performance and learning with a focus on individual and organisational growth. This award is a reinforcement of our beliefs and practices and encourages us forward. Team TAFE is proud and happy to receive this recognition from a highly reputed organisation like Aon-Hewitt.”
Hats off to TAFE’s Human Resource team for achieving this enviable recognition. We couldn’t have started the year on a better note!
Indus Towers, one of our biggest telecom customers conducted ROTN I-Connect programme recently. On this occasion TMTL Service team was invited from Tamil Nadu and were awarded and appreciated for their efforts with the Certificates on Best DG Set Vendor to Mr Elamaran, SME Partner to Shield, Amruta, Power Care, our service dealer and also collected six Best Performance Awards for technicians.
We wish to thank the complete Indus team for honoring us with this great recognition, cementing the bond and motivating the service team.
With an aim to spread awareness among Chennai citizens about the ill effects of noise pollution caused by excessive honking, TAFE launched a unique initiative called Voice Against Noise, in association with the Chennai Traffic Police, who had earlier initiated a ‘no-honking’ campaign of their own.
The first stage of the Voice Against Noise campaign was a Facebook poster contest, wherein the public was invited to send in entries in the form of graphic designs, sketches, paintings, and many other forms of art, and these entries were published on the TAFE Facebook page and were up for voting. Voting had a 50% weightage in the contest winning criteria. The other 50% weightage was for jury decisions. The contest from November 22 – 29, and was open for voting till December 1. Post this, entries were screened and given scores by jury members. Facebook ‘likes’ and ‘shares’ were taken into consideration for the above mentioned 50% weightage for voting.
Three winners of the contest won a cool digicam each. Due to the overwhelming response of 100+ entries, the jury felt that six other participants should be given a jury’s choice prize for their excellent submissions.
Thus, the FB contest stirred up a lot of user engagement on our Facebook page and created a lot of buzz about the campaign.
Now that the word was out, it was time for the on-ground activity. With an aim to make this an community inclusive activity, we approached top colleges in and around our Corporate Office to provide us with student volunteers. We received a very enthusiastic response from four colleges, namely Ethiraj College for Women, Stella Maris College, M.O.P Vaishnav College for Women, and Loyola College. These colleges provided us a set of enthusiastic students who were the driving force of the on-ground activity.
The winning posters were printed for display with due credit to the winning participants, and these were distributed to each of these colleges. The students made sure that these posters were put up in places of public interest within a two kilometer radius around their college.
This was just the promotion stage. The execution of the main on-ground activity took place on December 6-7 where students took the cause to the streets of Chennai.
To mentor these college teams, we appointed TAFE volunteers with each team.
Indian Oil Corporation Limited were kind enough to permit us to station our teams in 25 of thier petrol pumps in various main roads all over the city.
Now the teams were set, the locations were set. Through December 6 and 7, the on-ground activity was carried out 26 petrol bunks, the SImpsons Group building at Mount Road, and our Sembium estate near Perambur, where TAFE volunteers solely carried out the activity. Campaign bookmarks carrying information on ill effects of honking, campaign stickers for bikes, car steerings, and bumpers were handed out to each team as part of their campaign kit, which also consisted of campaign T shirts, caps and refreshments.
Once the activity began, volunteers approached motorists at their repsective bunks, and handed over campaign material to them after a brief explanation about the cause, post which the stickers were placed on the motorists’ vehicles, leaving them with a final line ‘Think before you honk’. In a span of two days, our volunteers were able to reach an approximate of 7000 vehicles, which is a very commendable number.
So, the on-ground activity ended on a high-note. We then decided to have a felicitation ceremony for all the participating students, colleges and campaign partners at Hyatt Regency, Anna Salai, on December 10. The chief guests of the occasion were Mr. Mageskumar, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Traffic – North, and Mr. T R Kesavan, Chief Operating Officer – Product Strategy and Corporate Relations, TAFE.
In this event, contest winners, jury choice winners, student participants, colleges, and supporting authorities were awarded trophies and certificates for their dedicated support and involvement in the Voice Against Noise campaign. The event was followed by lunch.
Overall, the event was a very good exercise, as it brought together various sections of the community for a noble cause.
TAFE presents INNOVISTA, a program for budding engineers from various colleges to showcase their innovative and inspiring projects.
This platform not only brings closer to next generation but also brings technology and automation capabilities of engineers to the society around us.
Join us on 19th December at Sembium Gurukulam from 10am – 4pm where we showcase an overall number of 60 projects, exhibited by 281 students totally, from the following colleges – Alagappa Chettiar College of Engineering and Technology – Karaikudi, Bannari Amman Institute of TEchnology – Coimbatore, Government College of Technology, Institute of Road and Transport Technology, Kongu Engineering College – Erode, MAM College – Trichy, PSG College, Sri Shakthi Institute of Engineering and Technology – Coimbatore, and SVCE – Chennai.
The exhibition is followed by an award ceremony.
This program is brought to you by TAFE CAMPUS CONNECT.
