Kahalgaon gets 'Swarna Shakti Safety’ Award on NTPC's 48th Foundation Day

• 14 Nov 2022

Why In News?

• Recently, NTPC Kahalgaon 'of Bhagalpur district of Bihar was awarded the coveted 'Swarna Shakti Trophy' for its outstanding work in Security (O&M) category at the 'Swarna Shakti Award' program of NTPC's 48^th Foundation Day celebrations.

Key Points

• It is known that the 48^th NTPC Foundation Day function was organized on 11^th November in New Delhi.
• NTPC awards NTPC Swarna Shakti Awards are given to projects every year with an aim to motivate employees to perform better and achieve the goals of the organization.
• The award is given for better performance in the areas of productivity, safety, employee relations, environmental protection and improvement, official language, best health facilities, CSR and community development and project management.
• Executive Director (Ex-I) DSGSS Babji and Chief General Manager of Kahalgaon Project Arindam Sinha received the award on behalf of RK Singh, Cabinet Minister, Department of Power, New and Renewable Energy.
• It is noteworthy that this year the accident rate in plant operation in NTPC's Kahalgaon project was zero and overhauling work was also accident free. In order to create awareness about safety among the employees and working contractual workers in this project, programs on road safety, electrical safety, fire safety, home safety were organized by the security department throughout the year. Due to this the Kahalgaon project was declared as the best among all the NTPC projects in the country in this area.