After a gap of more than two years, HR personnel across Aravind centres were brought together for a retreat at Aravind-Madurai. The retreat provided practical inputs to refine and restructure various systems and procedures of the HR department towards ensuring its effective functioning.

The concept of Total productive maintenance (TPM) is relatively new to people at Aravind. It is a strategy that operates according to the idea that everyone in a facility should participate in maintenance of equipment or instruments, rather than just the maintenance team. Recently, Aurolab has implemented it on an experimental basis and seeing promising results, the concept is now being deployed across its departments.

LAICO organised the second session of Kaushalam, the value-based leadership seminar series at the picturesque venue of Tata Advanced Systems Ltd in Hyderabad.

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