JOINT PRIZE FOR BHEL FAMILY (1979)
Vengrai Parthasarathy
The Tiruchi Unit of BHEL is publishing a House Magazine titled ‘Boiler Plant & You’
And I was the Editor of the Hyderabad House Magazine titled PEP NEWS,
the PEP standing for Power Equipment Plant. The Tiruchi Unit’s mag
carried the following news feature in April 1979:
“ It is a matter of pride that in the All India Family Welfare Slogan of the
government of India contest theFirst Prize has been shared by two members of the
BHEL family. Mr.J.Swami-Nathan, Design Assistant of our plant coined the slogan
DELAY THE FIRST, SPACE THE SECOND AND STOP THE THIRD.
The joint-winner is Mrs Rukmini Parthasarathy, Principal of the Gitanjali school,
Ramachandra- Puram, Hyderabad.Her slogan read;
LET’S HAVE TWO, THE FIRST AND THE LAST. Mrs. Parthasarathy is the wife of
Mr.V.V. Parthasarathy ,Public Relations,Each of the two winners has received a
cash prize of Rs.500/–
.As Many as 40,000 entries (forty thousand!) were received and the two of the
best were naturally From BHEL