With an objective to ensure that all workers improve their skill development through formal technical training and are acquainted with modern practices, BSES Rajdhani Power limited (BRPl) has partnered with IGNOU to offer a skill development program in the distribution sector.
Announcing the course, a BRPl spokesperson said, “The programme will help in skill development among the important front-line category of network staff. It will also help in creating a pool of talent for the discoms and State Electricity Boards. Post-training, participants would be able to better understand the power distribution sector, its essential components, repair and maintenance of equipments and distribution lines.”
The company’s technical centre in Punjabi Bagh has got recognition from IGNOU to conduct “Competency Certificate in Power Distribution” (CCPD) training program under the School of Engineering & Technology (SOET). The curriculum of the course is developed and designed by IGNOU with the help of renowned educationists and industry experts. The duration of the program — open to front line network staff and freshers — is six months and will be conducted twice a year with batch size of 60 each. Admissions to the course will take place in July and January every year.
The course covers basics of electricity, generation and transmission, protection of electrical network, tools and safety, besides covering distribution system, transformers, switchgears, distribution losses and metering. On completion of the program, the participants will be given a certificate by IGNOU.