New Delhi: NHPC, India’s premier hydropower company, is observing the International Women’s Day under Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav with great fervour and enthusiasm at its corporate office, Faridabad and across its various locations in the country.

NHPC’s T & HRD Division and NHPC WIPs (Women in Power Sector) cell is organizing a two-day workshop for NHPC women employees on March 8-9 to commemorate the International Women’s Day. The workshop was inaugurated by Alka Tiwari, IAS, Secretary, National Commission for Scheduled Tribes (NCST) and AK Singh, CMD, NHPC.

YK Chaubey, Director, Technical, RP Goyal, Director, Finance, Biswajit Basu, Director, Projects, AK Srivastava, CVO, were also present on the occasion along with other senior officers and women employees of NHPC. The programme was telecast live across all NHPC regional offices, power stations and projects to enable participation of all NHPC women employees posted at these locations.

Alka Tiwari delivered a special talk on ‘Women in Leadership’ in the opening session of the programme. Speaking on the occasion, AK Singh stressed on the increased role for women in society! He further highlighted the recent achievements of NHPC women employees and applauded their hard work, dedication and professionalism in contributing towards the growth of NHPC.

Dr Kamla Fartyal, GGM, Medical Services and Dr Sushma Baleshwar Trivedi, Senior  DCMO, were felicitated for their outstanding contribution to fight Covid – 19 pandemic, A Nalini, Senior Manager, Finance, was felicitated for outstanding performance in para sports at both at the national and international level and Suja Anandan, Senior Manager, Civil, Monika Singh,  DM, Electrical, Aditi Bisht, Manager, Civil, Dr Pinki Kumari Roy, Senior DCMO, Saloni Yadav, DM, Electrical, Nidhi Kaloni, DM, Electrical, Purva Maini, Assistant Programmer, Anju Marwah, Private Secretary and Kamlesh, Assistant Programmer, were felicitated for commendable performance in various inter CPSU sports tournaments. /BI/