National Thermal Power Corporation

NTPC Limited

Type	State-owned enterprise Public
Traded as	BSE: 532555 NSE: NTPC
Industry	Engineer production
Founded	1975
Headquarters	Delhi, India
Key people	Arup Roy Choudhury (Chairman & MD)[1]
Products	Electricity
Revenue	50,188.52 crore (US$10.18 billion) (2009–10)[2]
Net income	8,837.65 crore (US$1.79 billion)(2009–10)[2]
Employees	25,944 (2010)
Website	www.ntpc.co.in

NTPC Limited (formerly National Thermal Power Corporation) (BSE: 532555, NSE: NTPC) is the largest state-owned power generating company in India. Forbes Global 2000 for 2010 ranked it 341st^[3] in the world. It is an Indian public sector company listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange although at present the Government of India holds 84.5% (after divestment the stake by Indian government on 19th October, 2009) of its equity. With a current generating capacity of 34894 MW, NTPC has embarked on plans to become a 75,000 MW company by 2017. It was founded on November 7, 1975.

NTPC's core business is engineering, construction and operation of power generating plants and providing consultancy to power utilities in India and abroad.

The total installed capacity of the company is 34894 MW (including JVs) with 15 coal based and 7 gas based stations, located across the country. In addition under JVs, 5 stations are coal based & another station uses naphtha/LNG as fuel. By 2017, the power generation portfolio is expected to have a diversified fuel mix with coal based capacity of around 27,535 MW, 3,955 MW through gas, 1,328 MW through Hydro generation, about 1400 MW from nuclear sources and around 1000 MW from Renewable Energy Sources (RES). NTPC has adopted a multi-pronged growth strategy which includes capacity addition through green field projects, expansion of existing stations, joint ventures, subsidiaries and takeover of stations.

NTPC has been operating its plants at high efficiency levels. Although the company has 18.79% of the total national capacity it contributes 28.60% of total power generation due to its focus on high efficiency. NTPC’s share at 31 Mar 2001 of the total installed capacity of the country was 24.51% and it generated 29.68% of the power of the country in 2008–09. Every fourth home in India is lit by NTPC. As at 31 Mar 2011 NTPC's share of the country's total installed capacity is 17.75% and it generated 27.4% of the power generation of the country in 2010–11. NTPC is lighting every third bulb in India. 170.88BU of electricity was produced by its stations in the financial year 2005–2006. The Net Profit after Tax on March 31, 2006 was INR 58,202 million. Net Profit after Tax for the quarter ended June 30, 2006 was INR 15528 million, which is 18.65% more than for the same quarter in the previous financial year. 2005).

Pursuant to a special resolution passed by the Shareholders at the Company’s Annual General Meeting on September 23, 2005 and the approval of the Central Government under section 21 of the Companies Act, 1956, the name of the Company "National Thermal Power Corporation Limited" has been changed to "NTPC Limited" with effect from October 28, 2005. The primary reason for this is the company's foray into hydro and nuclear based power generation along with backward integration by coal mining.

(NTPC) is in the 138th position in Fortune 500 in 2009. 10 Indian companies make it to FT's top 500

Recruitment

The company recruits every year through a highly competitive ET test. Every year about 1.5 Lacs students take the exam and 500–600 candidates are selected after an interview.

The Stream wise distribution is as follows

Mechanical Engineers – 10

Electrical engineers – 25%

Instrumentation Engineers – 40%

Civil Engineers- 10%

HR and Finance – 15%

The company officials also visit the prestigious institutions in the country like IITs including ITBHU and ISM Dhanbad, DTU, BITS-Pilani, BIT Mesr and the NITs to recruit ETs.It started from the year 2007 to reduce the recruitment cost to company.NTPC won the PSU Excellence award 2010 in the best financial performance category.

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Future Goals

The company has also set a serious goal of having 50000 MW of installed capacity by 2012 and 75000 MW by 2017. The company has taken many steps like step-up its recruitment, reviewing feasibilities of various sites for project implementations etc. and has been quite successful till date. NTPC will invest about Rs 20,000 crore to set up a 3,900-megawatt (Mw) coal-based power project in Madhya Pradesh. Company will also start coal production from its captive mine in Jharkhand in 2011–12, for which the company will be investing about Rs 1,800 crore^[4]

Power Burden

India, as a developing country is characterised by increase in demand for electricity and as of moment the power plants are able to meet only about 60–75% of this demand on an yearly average. The only way to meet the requirement completely is to achieve a rate of power capacity addition (implementing power projects) higher than the rate of demand addition. NTPC strives to achieve this and undoubtedly leads in sharing this burden on the country.

NTPC Headquarters

NTPC Limited is divided in 8 HQ.

Sr. No.	Headquarter	City
1	NCRHQ	Delhi
2	ER-I, HQ	Patna
3	ER-II, HQ	Bhubaneshwar
4	NRHQ	Lucknow
5	SR HQ	Hyderabad
6	WR-I HQ	Mumbai
7	Hydro HQ	Delhi
8	WR-II HQ	Raipur

NTPC Plants

Thermal-Coal based

Sr. No.	City	State	Inst.Capacity
1	Singrauli	Uttar Pradesh	2,000
2	Korba	Chhattisgarh	2,600
3	Ramagundam	Andhra Pradesh	2,600
4	Farakka	West Bengal	2,100
5	Vindhyachal	Madhya Pradesh	3,260
6	Rihand	Uttar Pradesh	2,000
7	Kahalgaon	Bihar	2,340
8	Dadri (NTPC Dadri)	Uttar Pradesh	2,310
9	Talcher	Orissa	3,000
10	Unchahar	Uttar Pradesh	1,050
11	Talcher Thermal	Orissa	460
12	Simhadri	Andhra Pradesh	1,500
13	Tanda	Uttar Pradesh	440
14	Badarpur (BTPS)	Delhi	705
15	Sipat	Chhattisgarh	1660
16	Sipat (erection phase)	Chhattisgarh	1980
17	Bongaigaon (erection phase)	Assam	750
18	Mouda (erection phase)	Maharashtra	1000 (2x500 MW)			Total		25,815

Coal Based (Owned by JVs)

Sr. No.	Name of the JV	City	State	Inst.Capacity
1	NSPCL	Durgapur	West Bengal	120
2	NSPCL	Rourkela	Orissa	120
3	NSPCL	Bhilai	Chhattisgarh	574
4	Nabinagar Power Generating Co. Pvt. Ltd. (NPGC)	Aurangabad	Bihar	1980
5	–	Kanti	Bihar	110
6	Bhartiya Rail Bijlee Company Limited	Nabinagar	Bihar	1000
		–	3904

GAS based

Sr. No.	City	State	Inst.Capacity
1	Anta	Rajasthan	413
2	Auraiya	Uttar Pradesh	652
3	Kawas	Gujarat	645
4	Dadri	Uttar Pradesh	817
5	Jhanor	Gujarat	648
6	Kayamkulam	Kerala	350
7	Faridabad	Haryana	430
Total			3995

NTPC Hydel

The company has also stepped up its hydroelectric power (hydel) projects implementation. Currently the company is mainly interested in the North-east India wherein the Ministry of Power in India has projected a hydel power feasibility of 3000 MW.

There are few run of the river hydro projects are under construction on tributory of the Ganges. In which three are being made by NTPC Limited. These are:

1. Loharinag Pala Hydro Power Project by NTPC Ltd: In Loharinag Pala Hydro Power Project with a capacity of 600 MW (150 MW x 4 Units). The main package has been awarded. The present executives' strength is 100+. The project is located on river Bhagirathi (a tributory of the Ganges) in Uttarkashi district of Uttarakhand state. This is the first project downstream from the origin of the Ganges at Gangotri(Project stopped by GoI).
2. Tapovan Vishnugad 520MW Hydro Power Project by NTPC Ltd: In Joshimath city
3. Lata Tapovan 130MW Hydro Power Project by NTPC Ltd: Also in Joshimath (under environmental revision)
4. Koldam Hydro Power Project 800 MW in Himachal Pradesh (130 km from Chandigarh)
5. Amochu in Bhutan
6. Rupasiyabagar Khasiabara HPP, 261 MW in Uttarkashi, near China Border.

See also

Companies portal

• Electricity in India

References

1. ^ TNN, Jul 29, 2010, 02.55am IST (2010-07-29). "NBCC's Arup Roy Choudhury is NTPC chairman – India – The Times of India". Timesofindia.indiatimes.com. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/NBCCs-Arup-Roy-Choudhury-is-NTPC-chairman/articleshow/6229246.cms. Retrieved 2010-09-01. 
2. ^ ^{a b} "BSE 2010 Data". http://www.bseindia.com. http://www.bseindia.com/qresann/detailedresult_cons.asp?scrip_cd=532555&qtr=65.5&compname=NTPC%20LTD.&quarter=MC2009-2010&checkcons=55c. Retrieved 2010-08-26. 
3. ^ Forbes Global 2000 (2009)
4. ^ "NTPC eyes 20K crore thermal plant in MP". business.rediff.com. http://business.rediff.com/report/2010/oct/26/ntpc-eyes-thermal-plant-in-mp.htm. Retrieved 27 Oct 2010. 

External links

• NTPC ET Recruitment
• NTPC Official website
• NTPC Project Monitoring Centre
• PMC New Innovation