Kochi City Police/PRIDE Award 2008 for Karikkamuri Residence Association

Kochi City Police/PRIDE Award 2008 for Karikkamuri Residence Association

Team 1 Dubai has always been on the look out of TQM and Positive Thinking actions and activities. Wherever it is happening, Team 1 have set an eagle’s eye to catch it and report it on the spot. I am proud to announce one such happy event.

It is about a small Residence association placed at Cochin in Kerala, Karikkamuri Residents Association (KRA) winning the prestigious Kochi City Police Award-2008 PRIDE constituted for the first time.

The award is for the systematic efforts to keep the locality clean and environmental friendly .It carries Rs.25000/cash plus two free return air tickets for Singapore. The Award was presented to the President and Secretary of the Karikkamuri Residents Association,Ernakulam on 12 th January evening by Kerala Home Minister Kodiyeri Balakrishnan in a glittering function.



KOCHI CITY POLICE AWARD-2008 - WHAT HAVE WE DONE TO KEEP OUR LOCALITY NEAT &CLEAN AND SAFE & PEACEFUL.. This is organised under PRIDE (Police and Residence association Initiative in District Ernakulam).

This is what Mr. L. N. Sethumadhavan, General Secretary of KRA has to say about his association, activities and team members:

In Karikkamuri Residents Association (KRA), Kochi,Kerala, we firmly believe in the motto that “ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS ”. We have adopted Total Quality Management (TQM) methodology. To present what we have done to keep our locality “neat & clean and safe & peaceful”, we have to only collect existing documents, forms, correspondence, photos etc.

Since ours is a system oriented TQM path, NO extra documents had to be prepared for the report asked by Kochi City Police as part of their interaction with society. Based on this report and actual audit, Karikkamuri Residents Association bagged the prestigious Kochi City Police Award-2008 on 12th January 2008. The award was presented by Kerala Home Minister Mr.Kodiyeri Balakrishnan. The Award carries Rs.25000/ in cash plus a free return air ticket for Singapore.

Leadership roles, Vision & Strategy, Mission, Objectives, Goals, Processes, Activities, Pain areas, Thrust areas, Improvement initiatives, Core values etc are well defined and documented. Plan-Do-Check-Act, known as P-D-C-A cycle is making all our initiatives effective and sustainable.

In short we follow,

Methodology —TQM
Motto------------Actions speak louder than words
Methodology-- bench marked with Dubai Municipality
Customer focus bench--marked with Surat Municipal Corporation,India
Management style-- bench marked with Larsen & Toubro Limited ,
Indian Multinational Engineering Conglomerate.
Our TQM PATH with clear cut VISION and direction is yielding satisfactory results.

L.N.Sethumadhavan,
Retd.Sr.Dy.General Manager-Larsen&Toubro Limited,Surat,
General Secretary-Karikkamuri Residents Association,
Ernakulam,Kochi-682011.

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