{"id":9605,"date":"2026-09-30T03:34:21","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T10:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenortherngazette.com\/?p=9605"},"modified":"2026-09-30T03:34:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T10:34:21","slug":"rudrapur-quality-convention-highlights-industrial-productivity-and-quality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenortherngazette.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/30\/rudrapur-quality-convention-highlights-industrial-productivity-and-quality\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a0Rudrapur Quality\u00a0 Convention highlights Industrial productivity and quality\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\"><strong>\u00a0Rudrapur Quality\u00a0<\/strong><strong> Convention highlights Industrial productivity and quality\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\"><strong>B.D.Kasniyal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\"><strong>Pithoragarh, Sept 30<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">\u00a0The 12th chapter of the Rudrapur Convention on Quality Concepts (RCCQC-26), held at Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar, in the second week of September, emphasised the importance of quality, productivity, workplace safety, cost reduction, improvement in work processes and the application of innovative solutions to industrial problems, according to a press communique issued by the organisers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">The convention was organised by Ashok Leyland in collaboration with the Quality Circle Forum of India (QCFI), said Nikhilesh Shandilya, Deputy General Manager (Operational Excellence) at Ashok Leyland, Pantnagar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">The presence of Dr Shivendra Kumar Kashyap, Vice-Chancellor of Pantnagar University, as the chief guest and Dr R.S. Jashaud, Dean of the College of Agribusiness Management at the university, as the guest of honour, highlighted the importance of practical reforms at industrial workplaces and innovations being undertaken by industries, the press communique said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">More than 300 participants representing 51 teams from various industries took part in the convention. The teams presented their projects focusing on quality improvement in industrial manufacturing, according to the organisers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Chief guest Dr Shivendra Kumar Kashyap described the convention as a new beginning in strengthening the interface between industry and academia.<\/p>\n<p>The teams that were awarded gold medals at the convention will participate in the National Convention of the Quality Circle Forum of India (QCFI), scheduled to be held in Bhubaneswar in December this year, Shandilya said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Rudrapur Quality\u00a0 Convention highlights Industrial productivity and quality\u00a0 B.D.Kasniyal Pithoragarh, Sept 30 \u00a0The 12th chapter of the Rudrapur Convention on Quality Concepts (RCCQC-26), held at Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar, in the second week of September, emphasised the importance of quality, productivity, workplace safety, cost reduction, improvement in work processes and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":9606,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,92,33,1284,91,59],"tags":[4327,4326],"class_list":["post-9605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","category-featured","category-international","category-international-political-national","category-national","category-uttarakhand","tag-pantnagar-university","tag-rudrapur-convention-on-quality-concepts-rccqc-26"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>\u00a0Rudrapur Quality\u00a0 Convention highlights Industrial productivity and quality\u00a0 - Northern Gazette<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"\u00a0Rudrapur Quality\u00a0 Convention highlights Industrial productivity and quality\u00a0\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/thenortherngazette.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/30\/rudrapur-quality-convention-highlights-industrial-productivity-and-quality\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"\u00a0Rudrapur Quality\u00a0 Convention highlights Industrial productivity and quality\u00a0 - Northern Gazette\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u00a0Rudrapur Quality\u00a0 Convention highlights Industrial productivity and quality\u00a0\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/thenortherngazette.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/30\/rudrapur-quality-convention-highlights-industrial-productivity-and-quality\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Northern Gazette\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-09-30T10:34:21+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/thenortherngazette.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Rudrapur-quality.jpeg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1064\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"The Northern Gazette Desk\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"The Northern Gazette Desk\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thenortherngazette.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/30\/rudrapur-quality-convention-highlights-industrial-productivity-and-quality\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thenortherngazette.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/30\/rudrapur-quality-convention-highlights-industrial-productivity-and-quality\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"The Northern Gazette Desk\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thenortherngazette.com\/#\/schema\/person\/4d8ec7be5e8a9073ea862e9fa63c11c4\"},\"headline\":\"\u00a0Rudrapur Quality\u00a0 Convention highlights Industrial productivity and quality\u00a0\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-09-30T10:34:21+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thenortherngazette.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/30\/rudrapur-quality-convention-highlights-industrial-productivity-and-quality\/\"},\"wordCount\":250,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thenortherngazette.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/30\/rudrapur-quality-convention-highlights-industrial-productivity-and-quality\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/thenortherngazette.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Rudrapur-quality.jpeg\",\"keywords\":[\"Pantnagar university\",\"Rudrapur Convention on Quality Concepts (RCCQC-26)\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Economy\",\"Featured\",\"International\",\"international, political, national\",\"National\",\"Uttarakhand\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/thenortherngazette.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/30\/rudrapur-quality-convention-highlights-industrial-productivity-and-quality\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thenortherngazette.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/30\/rudrapur-quality-convention-highlights-industrial-productivity-and-quality\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/thenortherngazette.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/30\/rudrapur-quality-convention-highlights-industrial-productivity-and-quality\/\",\"name\":\"\u00a0Rudrapur Quality\u00a0 Convention highlights Industrial productivity and quality\u00a0 - Northern Gazette\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thenortherngazette.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thenortherngazette.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/30\/rudrapur-quality-convention-highlights-industrial-productivity-and-quality\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thenortherngazette.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/30\/rudrapur-quality-convention-highlights-industrial-productivity-and-quality\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/thenortherngazette.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Rudrapur-quality.jpeg\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-09-30T10:34:21+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thenortherngazette.com\/#\/schema\/person\/4d8ec7be5e8a9073ea862e9fa63c11c4\"},\"description\":\"\u00a0Rudrapur Quality\u00a0 Convention highlights Industrial productivity and quality\u00a0\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thenortherngazette.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/30\/rudrapur-quality-convention-highlights-industrial-productivity-and-quality\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/thenortherngazette.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/30\/rudrapur-quality-convention-highlights-industrial-productivity-and-quality\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thenortherngazette.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/30\/rudrapur-quality-convention-highlights-industrial-productivity-and-quality\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/thenortherngazette.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Rudrapur-quality.jpeg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/thenortherngazette.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Rudrapur-quality.jpeg\",\"width\":1600,\"height\":1064},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thenortherngazette.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/30\/rudrapur-quality-convention-highlights-industrial-productivity-and-quality\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/thenortherngazette.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"\u00a0Rudrapur Quality\u00a0 Convention highlights Industrial productivity and quality\u00a0\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thenortherngazette.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/thenortherngazette.com\/\",\"name\":\"Northern Gazette\",\"description\":\"News Portal\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/thenortherngazette.com\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thenortherngazette.com\/#\/schema\/person\/4d8ec7be5e8a9073ea862e9fa63c11c4\",\"name\":\"The Northern Gazette Desk\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/db6635bc2f75f96f9a9838ca969d33cb70394750f7d4c8f35adef1a0058200c6?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/db6635bc2f75f96f9a9838ca969d33cb70394750f7d4c8f35adef1a0058200c6?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/db6635bc2f75f96f9a9838ca969d33cb70394750f7d4c8f35adef1a0058200c6?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"The Northern Gazette Desk\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/thenortherngazette.com\/index.php\/author\/the-northern-gazette-desk\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"\u00a0Rudrapur Quality\u00a0 Convention highlights Industrial productivity and quality\u00a0 - Northern Gazette","description":"\u00a0Rudrapur Quality\u00a0 Convention highlights Industrial productivity and quality\u00a0","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/thenortherngazette.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/30\/rudrapur-quality-convention-highlights-industrial-productivity-and-quality\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"\u00a0Rudrapur Quality\u00a0 Convention highlights Industrial productivity and quality\u00a0 - Northern Gazette","og_description":"\u00a0Rudrapur Quality\u00a0 Convention highlights Industrial productivity and quality\u00a0","og_url":"https:\/\/thenortherngazette.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/30\/rudrapur-quality-convention-highlights-industrial-productivity-and-quality\/","og_site_name":"Northern Gazette","article_published_time":"2026-09-30T10:34:21+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1600,"height":1064,"url":"https:\/\/thenortherngazette.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Rudrapur-quality.jpeg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"The Northern Gazette Desk","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"The Northern Gazette Desk","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/thenortherngazette.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/30\/rudrapur-quality-convention-highlights-industrial-productivity-and-quality\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/thenortherngazette.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/30\/rudrapur-quality-convention-highlights-industrial-productivity-and-quality\/"},"author":{"name":"The Northern Gazette Desk","@id":"https:\/\/thenortherngazette.com\/#\/schema\/person\/4d8ec7be5e8a9073ea862e9fa63c11c4"},"headline":"\u00a0Rudrapur Quality\u00a0 Convention highlights Industrial productivity and quality\u00a0","datePublished":"2026-09-30T10:34:21+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/thenortherngazette.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/30\/rudrapur-quality-convention-highlights-industrial-productivity-and-quality\/"},"wordCount":250,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/thenortherngazette.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/30\/rudrapur-quality-convention-highlights-industrial-productivity-and-quality\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/thenortherngazette.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Rudrapur-quality.jpeg","keywords":["Pantnagar university","Rudrapur Convention on Quality Concepts (RCCQC-26)"],"articleSection":["Economy","Featured","International","international, political, national","National","Uttarakhand"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/thenortherngazette.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/30\/rudrapur-quality-convention-highlights-industrial-productivity-and-quality\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/thenortherngazette.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/30\/rudrapur-quality-convention-highlights-industrial-productivity-and-quality\/","url":"https:\/\/thenortherngazette.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/30\/rudrapur-quality-convention-highlights-industrial-productivity-and-quality\/","name":"\u00a0Rudrapur Quality\u00a0 Convention highlights Industrial productivity and quality\u00a0 - Northern Gazette","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/thenortherngazette.com\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/thenortherngazette.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/30\/rudrapur-quality-convention-highlights-industrial-productivity-and-quality\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/thenortherngazette.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/30\/rudrapur-quality-convention-highlights-industrial-productivity-and-quality\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/thenortherngazette.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Rudrapur-quality.jpeg","datePublished":"2026-09-30T10:34:21+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/thenortherngazette.com\/#\/schema\/person\/4d8ec7be5e8a9073ea862e9fa63c11c4"},"description":"\u00a0Rudrapur Quality\u00a0 Convention highlights Industrial productivity and quality\u00a0","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/thenortherngazette.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/30\/rudrapur-quality-convention-highlights-industrial-productivity-and-quality\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/thenortherngazette.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/30\/rudrapur-quality-convention-highlights-industrial-productivity-and-quality\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/thenortherngazette.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/30\/rudrapur-quality-convention-highlights-industrial-productivity-and-quality\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/thenortherngazette.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Rudrapur-quality.jpeg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/thenortherngazette.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Rudrapur-quality.jpeg","width":1600,"height":1064},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/thenortherngazette.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/30\/rudrapur-quality-convention-highlights-industrial-productivity-and-quality\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/thenortherngazette.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"\u00a0Rudrapur Quality\u00a0 Convention highlights Industrial productivity and quality\u00a0"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/thenortherngazette.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/thenortherngazette.com\/","name":"Northern Gazette","description":"News Portal","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/thenortherngazette.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/thenortherngazette.com\/#\/schema\/person\/4d8ec7be5e8a9073ea862e9fa63c11c4","name":"The Northern Gazette Desk","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/db6635bc2f75f96f9a9838ca969d33cb70394750f7d4c8f35adef1a0058200c6?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/db6635bc2f75f96f9a9838ca969d33cb70394750f7d4c8f35adef1a0058200c6?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/db6635bc2f75f96f9a9838ca969d33cb70394750f7d4c8f35adef1a0058200c6?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"The Northern Gazette Desk"},"url":"https:\/\/thenortherngazette.com\/index.php\/author\/the-northern-gazette-desk\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenortherngazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenortherngazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenortherngazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenortherngazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenortherngazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9605"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenortherngazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9607,"href":"https:\/\/thenortherngazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9605\/revisions\/9607"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenortherngazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenortherngazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenortherngazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenortherngazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}