Power People | August 2011
Awards: Swarn Shakti Award for NTPC's Ramagundam project
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The Swarn Shakti Awards are given annually to projects to motivate employees to perform better. The awards are given in the areas of productivity, safety, employee relations, protection and improvement of environment, Rajbhasha, best health facilities, CSR and community development and project management award.
Some trophy winners in productivity were given to Ramagundam and Simhadri as runner-up; the Rajbhasha Award was won by Dadri and Ramagundam was runner-up; Employee Relations Award was bagged by Ramagundam followed by Korba; Safety Award in the major project category went to Talcher thermal followed by Ramagundam. Ramagundam received the Protection of Environment Award in coal-based category followed by Unchahar and the corporate social responsibility (CSR) and community development award was bagged by Ramagundam and the Dadri project was a runner-up.
The awards were given to the business unit heads of projects and regions by Arup Roy Choudhury, CMD, NTPC, and directors of the company for 2009-10.