When gas costs are on the rise, staff of the Manali plant of Kothari Petrochemicals couldn’t have requested for a greater reward from their employer. The corporate not too long ago stunned its staff by gifting them a bicycle every.
The message was loud and clear: keep match and do your bit for the setting.
The plant has 142 staff on its rolls, and proper from these on the management stage to the attender all get the identical bike – a Hercules.
“Now we have already distributed 100 bicycles and are ready for the subsequent lot to reach,” says V Murugeswaran, senior supervisor (human sources and admin), Kothari Petrochemicals, including that the cycles have been distributed at an occasion held to look at Nationwide Security Day.
The corporate has been selling inexperienced modes of transport amongst its workforce for just a few years now. Final yr, as a part of World Atmosphere Day, the corporate organised a cycle rally to encourage staff to pedal to work.
“We solely had just a few staff coming by bicycle to work, and that’s once we thought: ‘Why not reward all of them a bicycle’,” says Murugeswaran.
A majority of the staff reside in and round Manali and are both depending on their very own transport or company-operated automobiles.
By providing them such an incentive, the administration is assured some staff will make the change.
Suresh Pachyappan from the manufacturing division is certainly one of them. The day after he took house the reward, Suresh has began biking to work. “I keep in Madhavaram, which is round 4.5 km from my office. Pedalling to work takes me double the time it used to take by my bike, however I see many advantages on this. I’m already seeing an enormous saving on my gas funds,” says Suresh.
The administration is hoping that staff will encourage one another to cycle to work. “We slowly plan to start out asking staff to return to work as soon as per week, could also be on a set day after which lengthen it to the opposite days,” says Murugeswaran. “We won’t reduce down the shift van to drive them to modify to bicycles, the realisation ought to come naturally.”
How good is the street infrastructure within the neighbourhood for the workers to cycle to work?
Says Suresh: “If extra individuals cycle to work we are able to push the authorities to enhancing the street infrastructure and we might even ask for a separate lane.”