Mock drill held at Tata Motors Plant
Lucknow: On Dec 28, at about 1450 hrs an emergency mock exercise on leakage of CNG at CNG Yard was conducted at Tata Motors Ltd., Lucknow situated at Chinhat Industrial Area wherein all employees of Tata Motors, local Police and Fire Authorities participated. SN Verma (WMC), held the charge of Emergency Control Centre as Works Main Controller to mitigate the emerging situation and SB Pathak (WIC) as Works Incident Controller at the spot of incidence.
NHPC signs MOU & MOA with IIT Roorkee
Roorkee: NHPC, India’s premier hydropower company signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for ‘Establishing NHPC Chair Professorship at IIT Roorkee’ and Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) for R&D collaboration on Dec 26 with IIT Roorkee. Gobinda Baidya, ED (R&D) and M Parida, Dean (Sponsored Research & Industrial Consultancy), IIT Roorkee signed MOU & MoA on behalf of NHPC & IIT Roorkee respectively. During this occasion, Janardan Choudhary, Director (Technical), NHPC, Ajit K. Chaturvedi, Director, IIT Roorkee and Arun Kumar, Independent Director, NHPC, BK Mishra, Dean (Faculty Affairs) alongwith Head of all Departments of IIT Roorkee were present.
NLCIL conducts boiler light up for unit of Neyveli
Neyveli: NLC India Limited has achieved a critical milestone towards commissioning its 1000 MW (2X500 MW) of Neyveli New Thermal Power Project (NNTPP) by successfully conducting the boiler light-up test for the First unit with secondary fuel on Dec 28 at Neyveli.
Rakesh Kumar, CMD lighted up the boiler in the presence of Functional Directors Thangapandian, R Vikraman, Prabhakar Chowki and senior officials and executives of NNTPP.
This is the first 500 MW lignite fired power plant in the country.It can generate 10,00,000 units of power in an hour. This power project will replace the existing more than five decades old TPS-I (600MW) at Neyveli. The time for Boiler hydro Test and Light up is scheduled for 6 months but with vigorous efforts the Unit-I boiler hydro test was completed on August 22.