Christmas celebrated: Christmas was celebrated with religious fervour at the ONGC colony. As part of the celebrations by the Officers' Club, a surprise visit by Santa Claus was organised. He visited about 20 families and distributed gifts and goodies to the children.

Antaksari programme: An Antaksari programme was held at the Officers' club on December 26. Four teams of two participants each participated in the contest, which comprised of the same word round, the dhun round, the jumbled word and the visual round. Popular artiste Lata Kanitkar compered the programme.

Award: M M Vispute, junior technician (welding) working at F-6100-II Rig, DBG, Ankleshwar won the `Overall Performance Award' and the `Best Firer of Rifle Award' during the Annual Territorial Army Training held in Vadodara recently.

Conference: A three-day national conference to focus on synergizing HRD intervention of growth was organised jointly by the ONGC and Scope Complex last week. The conference was attended by technocrats belonging to both HRD and other streams from public sector units from different parts of the country. Outlining the objectives of the conference, Jauhari Lal, Director (personnel), ONGC stressed upon the need for gaining understanding of transformation challenges in today's business environment. He added that to achieve competitive advantage the role of HR must be aligned and integrated with business plans and processes of organisations. Discussions and presentations on such vital issues as organisational transformation challenges, HRD initiatives to effect superior business performance, innovation in training, and development were made during the conference.