Energy efficient pumps to farmers
National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) under its CSR initiative is providing financial support for installation of about 10,000 Energy Efficient Pump System through UPPCl in the fields of farmers residing near NTPC stations located in five districts of Uttar Pradesh. An agreement to this effect was signed between D K Patankar, the general manager for corporate social responsibility on behalf of NTPC and Varalika Dubey, the chief engineer of UPPCl at lucknow.
New Director (Projects) at POWERGRID
Rajeev Kumar Chauhan has assumed the charge of Director (Projects) of Power Grid Corporation of India limited (POWERGRID). He graduated from IIT Roorkee in Electrical Engineering and has a diverse experience of more than 33 years in EHV AC&DC transmission system covering almost all areas of the transmission system. He has been associated with POWERGRID since 1994 and has contributed to all segments of Power System Management in POWERGRID like Project Management, CTU Planning, Design and Engineering (EHV AC&HVDC), Procurement, Site Execution, Operation and Maintenance, Consultancy, DMS and Commercial Functions under various capacities. He has also served for 10 years in NTPC prior to joining POWERGRID.
A blood donation camp was organised on August 27 by the Vega Industries During the camp, most of the employees participated with enthusiasm which resulted in collection of 40 units of blood.The camp was inaugurated by the chairman of Vega Industries, R C Jain and the director, Sandeep Jain.
AAIClAS exempts cargo-handling charges on kerala relief materials
With a view to extend a helping hand and support the ongoing Kerala floods relief drive, AAI Cargo logistics and Allied Services Company limited, a subsidiary of the Airports Authority of India has decided to exempt 100 per cent cargo handling related charges up to August 31 initially on the relief-materials being dispatched to Kerala from AAI managed cargo terminals subject to meeting certain pre-requisites.
The Security Printing and Minting Corporation of India limited (SPMCIl), announced a dividend of five percent of net worth of the company as on March 31 for FY 2017-18. Tripti P Ghosh, the CMD of SPMCIl presented the cheque of Rs 204,87,15,390 to the Union Minister Finance, Arun Jaitely, towards the dividend declared by the company.
The August issue of “Kaliedoscope” was released by Atul Chaturvedi, former chairman of Public Enterprises Selection Board in the presence of Ved Prakash, chairman, SCOPE and CMD, MMTC ltd. and Dr U D Choubey, the director general of SCOPE