A Girl Empowerment Mission (GEM) was inaugurated by Padmakumar Rajasekharan, chief general manager in the presence of other general managers of the NTPC Limited at Sipat Super Thermal Power Station on Monday.
Addressing the gathering, Padmakumar said GEM programme of the NTPC has been designed for holistic development of girls of associate villages.And its result will be shown in near future, according to a NTPC press release.
“It is a unique initiative of the NTPC Limited under its CSR activity. Under this initiative 120 girls of government schools of associated villages will undergo one-month free residential training, comprises academic classes and a series of extracurricular activities and self defence,” the press release said.
The programme has been designed to help the meritorious girls students who has high ambition to achieve greater heights in their future life.
The meritorious trainees of the GEM programme who will join engineering and medical course, the NTPC will bear all the expense related to that. Apart from this 10 percent girls can be enrolled in the NTPC school free of cost.
Earlier, Ravishankar Kaul, AGM (HR) welcomed the gathering and A K Tripathy, AGM (RLI), briefed about the programme and its future planning. Among others Kamala Padmakumar, president Sangwari Mahila Samiti and it's office bearers, senior officials of Sipat and SSC-WR-II, representatives of union and sssociation, members of Sangwari Mahila Samiti were present.