ONGC commits to gender parity on International Women’s Day
Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) on Thursday reaffirmed its commitment to become a role model of gender parity in the corporate world, as the company celebrated International Women’s Day across all its workcenters. ONGC’s lady officers are working across the country & abroad in difficult terrains very successfully to ensure the nation’s quest for energy independence. Shashi Shanker, CMD-ONGC reiterated the organisation’s commitment towards creating an inclusive environment to foster gender parity. He said that ONGC is committed to be a change leader in the corporate realm to ensure gender parity. CMD also lauded the role of lady officers for contributing in a big way towards ONGC’s success story, and breaching the barriers of remoteness & geography. DD Misra, Director-HR spoke about the management’s vision to become an Equal Opportunity Employer in all its endeavours.
3rd Assam Rifles Invitational Football Cup
The third edition of the Assam Rifles Invitational Football Cup began on Thursday with lawsohtun defeating Sawmer 2-0 in an exciting opening encounter at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium here. Chief Guest and Governor of Meghalaya Ganga Prasad formally inaugurated the tournament. In his speech he paid tribute to Assam Rifles for organising last year’s CAPF Under-19 Oorja football tournament successfully and added that the central government is keen to promote sport in general, and football in particular, through its Khelo India programme.Meanwhile, Director General Assam Rifles and patron of the tournament, lt Gen ShokinChauhan, AVSM, YSM, SM, VSM, extended a warm welcome to the Minister and Governor for taking the time to attend the opening match, as well as the other dignitaries and teams. He also thanked the Government of Meghalaya and the Meghalaya Football Association for their help in holding the tournament.
USTDA Supports Tata Power Delhi Distribution with Grant
US Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) has extend its support to Tata Power Delhi Distribution (Tata Power-DDl) with grant to explore and develop opportunities in the areas of Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) such as integration of rooftop solar, energy storage systems, energy, active demand response and electric vehicles. The Grant Agreement was signed by Praveer Sinha, CEO&MD, Tata Power-DDl and Heather K lanigan, Country Manager, South Asia, USTDA on the sidelines of India Smart Grid Week 2018 in New Delhi. The move is in line with India-US collaboration on Smart Grid Development.The grant, which is part of the second phase of technical assistance, will help Tata Power-DDl evaluate different combinations of distributed energy resources that it could implement to improve its electric grid. Tata Power-DDl and USTDA are working as long-time partners for implementation of new technologies in Power Distribution in India. Tata Power-DDl and USTDA have selected Energy and Environmental Economics, Inc. (E3, San Francisco, CA), which carried out the first phase, to assess the costs benefits of the DERs and come up with an optimal set of solutions.
JP Singh takes charge of POWERGRID, NRTS-II
JP Singh, Executive Director has taken over the charge of Northern Region Transmission System -II of Power Grid Corporation of India limited. JP Singh shall be responsible for Operation and Maintenance and Project execution of EHV/ UHV transmission lines and Substations under Central transmission projects in the states of J&K, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, parts of Haryana and UT Chandigarh. JP Singh is a competent professional with over 35 years of extensive experience in Project Management, Distribution Management and Contracts Management in Power Sector. JP Singh is an authority in Contract services with more than 23 years of expertise in this area. He has experience of awarding International funded contracts. JP Singh prior to joining in POWERGRID has also served in National Thermal Power Corporation ltd.(NTPC).
Pradhan: Synergy needed to enable industrialization of Biofuels
Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan has emphasized the importance of research to promote the use of biofuels. In his inaugural speech at the “EU-India Conference on Advanced Biofuels” here on Thursday Pradhan said while there are challenges in promoting advanced biofuels but it also offers business oppurtunities worth one lakh crores in the ‘waste to wealth’ sector. He emphasizes the need for synergies to enable industrialization of biofuels so that there are economies of scale. Pradhan said while India is among the less polluting countries dacarbonizing the energy sector is important and several steps are being taken in this direction by his Ministry. For India, in the future, biofuels would be the cost-effective, pollution-free import substitute to polluting fossil fuels. While first generation biofuels are made from sugars via molasses and vegetable oils, advanced biofuels are made from lignocellulosic biomass or woody crops, agricultural residues and municipal waste. Elaborating on this he said we are committed to reaching the target of 10 per cent blending of ethanol in petrol by the year 2022. He also said 12 bio-refineries are being set up in the country by the Oil PSUs to enhance the ethanol production capacity.
NHPC cmd receives ‘Industry Doyen’ award
Balraj Joshi, CMD, NHPC limited, India’s premier hydropower company has been conferred the ‘Industry Doyen’ award by Construction Industry Development Council at 10th CIDC Vishwakarma Awards held at India Habitat Centre, New Delhi on March 7, 2018. The award recognizes the significant contribution made by Balraj Joshi in the field of hydropower development in the country as a leading professional with excellent project execution capabilities.
REC’s Gurugram World HQ Project Wins Vishwakarma Award
REC’s World Headquarters building project in Gurugram has been awarded the CIDC Vishwakarma Award Commemorative Medal in the category of Construction Health, Safety and Environment. It is designed to be a bio-climatic building with a playful mix of open, semi-open, enclosed office spaces. The 30m six-storey building will be naturally lit by a linear band of windows along the periphery. last year, the project had been presented with the GRIHA award for Integrated Water Management and Energy Management. The building is now in the advanced state of completion.
GAIl’s HAWA BADlO MOVEMENT
Hawa Badlo’ is a movement against Air Pollution which is supported by GAIl (India) ltd. Its objective is to create awareness about the consequences of environmental contamination caused by human activity. It motivates the masses to inculcate friendly habits such as switching to CNG/electric vehicles, carpooling, and use of public transport. As individuals, there are multiple things one can do to save our planet, our environment and, indeed ourselves. Hawa Badlo movement plans to gift an ‘airlense’ - smart nasal filter to combat against pollution for traffic policemen in Delhi & NCR . A press conference is to be organized very soon to formalize this announcement . Air lense is small anti pollution device worn on nostrils and breathing through this filters all vehicular pollutants that policeman are exposed to when on duty.
Maxxis Tyres launches its first manufacturing plant in India
largest two-wheeler tyre manufacturer in the world Maxxis Rubber India, a subsidiary of Maxxis Group, on Thursday inaugurated its first manufacturing facility in Sanand, Gujarat. The plant was inaugurated by Vijaybhai Rupani, Chief Minister, Gujarat, in the presence of Tsai-Jen lo, Chairman, Maxxis Group, Cheng-Yao liao, President, Maxxis India and Jia-Ciao liou (Gary), Spokesperson, Maxxis India. The plant with an investment of over $400 million (Rs 2,640 crore), is spread across a massive 106 acres. The facility is currently dedicated to manufacturing of two-wheeler tyres and tubes and will have a capacity to produce around 20,000 tyres and 40,000 tubes per day. With this size and capacity, the company is targeting a market share of at least 15 per cent of India’s tyre market within 5 years.
SAIl Chief charts out Company's growth plan
Steel Authority of India ltd (SAIl), having clocked profits in third quarter of the current financial year (Q3FY18) after a gap of ten quarters, is now chalking the future roadmap for consolidating its performance. A massive two-and-half day deliberation exercise involving SAIl’s entire top management was organized earlier this week. Reviewing the performance and stressing on maintaining the growth momentum, Chairman SAIl PK Singh reiterated that the Company will produce to potential and not just name plate capacity and will achieve the target of 21 Million Tonnes by FY 21. The major take-homes of the workshop included special emphasis on value addition in the entire process along with higherproduction & sales volumes. The Company’s Modernization and Expansion Programme will enable SAIl to enormously increase its capacity and produce high margin products particularly from its new mills and market them.The meeting brought forth the priorities in all the functional areas of Production,Marketing, Finance, Projects,Human Resources Raw materials & logistics.Continuously improving on techno-economics for cost control and to become lowest cost producer, production beyond capacity, ramping up production from the new mills, prudently utilizing potential of existing mills by technology upgradation were some of the discussed areas to strengthen the production side.