Presentation on National Power Training Institute (NPTI) Innovative Training Practices JSS Rao

1. Presentation on National Power Training Institute (NPTI) Innovative Training Practices JSS Rao Principal Director Bhawana Choudhary Asstt. Professor

3. About National Power Training Institute (NPTI)

4. About NPTI National Power Training Institute (NPTI), an ISO 9001 & ISO 14001 Organization is an Autonomous body under the Ministry of Power, Govt. of India NPTI is an Apex Body for Training and Human Resource Development in Power Sector NPTI’s Corporate Office is at Faridabad (Haryana) and has total Nine (9) Institutes spread all over the country NPTI has been providing its dedicated servicesfor more than four decades

5. NPTI operates on an all India basis with manpower strength of 337 including 97 officers through its nine (9) Institutes in different zones of the country as per details below: • Northern Region • NPTI Corporate Office, Faridabad • 2. NPTI (Northern Region), Badarpur, • New Delhi • 3. NPTI (Hydro Power Training Centre), • Nangal, Punjab About NPTI

6. About NPTI • Southern Region • 4. NPTI (Power System Training • Institute), Bengaluru • 5. NPTI (Hot Line Training Centre), • Bengaluru • 6. NPTI (Southern Region), Neyveli • C. Eastern & North Eastern Region • 7. NPTI (Eastern Region), Durgapur • 8. NPTI (North Eastern Region), • Guwahati, Assam • D. Western Region • 9. NPTI (Western Region), Nagpur

7. NPTI Corporate Office, Faridabad

8. NPTI – An All India Organisation Badarpur Nagpur Durgapur ISO 9001 : 2000 Nangal Guwahati Faridabad PSTI Bengaluru HLTC Bengaluru Neyveli

9. Broad Activities of NPTI • Two-Year MBA in Power Management approved by AICTE at Faridabad (intake 120) • Four-Year B.Tech. Degree in Power Engineering approved by AICTE (at Badarpur, Durgapur and Nagpur with intake of 60 at each place.) • One-Year Post Graduate Diploma Course in • Thermal Power Plant Engineering • One-Year Post Diploma Course in Thermal • Power Plant Engineering

10. Broad Activities of NPTI • Nine Months Post Graduate Diploma Course inHydro Power Plant Engg. • Six Months Post Graduate Diploma in O&M of Transmission and Distribution System • One-Year Post Graduate Diploma Course in GIS & Remote Sensing • One-Year Post Graduate Diploma Course in Sub-Transmission & Distribution Systems • Six Months Post Diploma Course in Hydro Power Plant Engg.

11. Broad Activities of NPTI • Long-Term, Medium-Term & Short-Term Training Programs for Engineers & Supervisors in: • * Thermal • * Hydro • * Transmission • * Distribution • * Other related areas including Management • Seminars, Workshops, Conferences 11

12. About NPTI • NPTI has Trained over 2,17,613 Power Professionals in Regular Programs over the last 4 decades • NPTI is the world’s leading integrated Power Training Institute • NPTI is the only institute of its kind in the world with such a wide geographical spread and covering such wide gamut of academic and training programs in Power Sector 12

13. Achievements in 2012-13 13

14. Innovative Training Practices

15. Innovative Practices & Initiatives • Two-Year MBA in Power Managementapproved by AICTE • Four-Year B.Tech. Degree in Power Engineeringapproved by AICTE • One-Year Post Graduate Diploma Course (PGDC) in Thermal Power Plant Engineering • One-Year Post Diploma Course (PDC) in Thermal Power Plant Engineering • One Year Post Graduate Diploma Course in GIS & Remote Sensing 15

16. Innovative Practices & Initiatives • Nine Months Post Graduate Diploma Course inHydro Power Plant Engg. • Six Months Post Graduate Diploma in O&M of Transmission and Distribution Systems • Six Months Post Diploma Course inHydro Power Plant Engg. • One Year Post Graduate Diploma Course in Sub-Transmission and Distribution System • Induction Training • Training to International Trainees • Training to IAS Officers • Initiative of starting various Short Term Courses • Training on Thermal Simulators • Training on Combined Cycle Gas Turbine Simulator 16

17. Innovative Practices & Initiatives • Training on Hydro Simulators • Training on Dispatcher Training Simulator • Training through Multimedia CBT Packages • Wide Geographical Reach of NPTI Institutes all over the country • Hot Line Training Centre, Bengaluru • System Operator Certification • Power Sector Publications • Publishing in-house Books • Initiatives as per CEA Regulations • Creation of NPTI knowledge Bank • Daily upload of Power News on NPTI Website • Free Text Books to the Students 17

18. One-Year Post Graduate Diploma Course (PGDC) in Thermal Power Plant Engineering NPTI was the first to start “One-Year Post Graduate Diploma Course (PGDC) in Thermal Power Plant Engineering” with an innovative idea of picking up enthusiastic Engg. Graduates interested in Power Sector and imparting Operation, Maintenance & Commissioning practices to meet the urgent needs of the power sector. This one-year PGDC Program is one of our most successful attempts to create a pool of technically trained manpower readily available for recruitment by PSUs/SEBs/Power Utilities. The Power Sector recruits this trained manpower since its inception in 1996. 18

19. Two-Year MBA in Power Management approved by AICTE • This unique MBA Program in Power Management was conceptualized in order to meet the demand of the changing phases of Power Sector development in India and with the aim of interfacing frontier technologies with management and to fill the gap of the huge requirement of Power Managers to run the Indian Power Sector on Techno-commercial lines. • It also has a special emphasis on reforming Power Sector issues to give extra strength to Indian Power Sector Engineers applying management theories and concepts to live problems of electricity industry in these challenging times. • This course curriculum has 30% - 40% of the subjects related to Power Sector and has 100 % placement since its inception in 2002

20. Unique Four-Year B.Tech. Degree in Power Engineering approved by AICTE NPTI was the first institute envisioning the needs of the power sector and to carry out AICTE approved academic program such as B.Tech. in Power Engineering at three institutes viz., Badarpur-New Delhi, Durgapur and Nagpur institutes. This course is different from conventional Engineering in Electrical or Mechanical. Subjects like Power Plant Operation, Maintenance, Load Despatch, Rotational On-Job Training, Power Plant Maintenance are included as a part of the curriculum making it a unique innovation to meet the needs of the Power Sector without any further training. NPTI carved its own niche in imparting and addressing comprehensively the various training needs of the country’s power sector and providing skilled manpower from time-to-time.

21. One-Year Post Diploma Course in Thermal Power Plant Engineering In order to cater to the changing sectoral scenario and the requirements of trained manpower at supervisory levels NPTI was again the first to start “One-Year Post Diploma Course in Thermal Power Plant Engineering” for Diploma Trainees. This one year course is aimed at developing skills and attitude for fresh and practicing Diploma holders to suit power sector needs in Operation, Maintenance & Commissioning practices and meet the growing demand at the Supervisory cadre in power plants.

22. One Year Post Graduate Diploma Course in GIS & Remote Sensing A Geographical Information System (GIS) Resource Centre has also been set up at NPTI Corporate Office, Faridabad. The Centre conducts “Post Graduate Diploma in GIS and Remote Sensing” to meet the urgent requirements of Power Sector.

23. Nine Months Post Graduate Diploma Course inHydro Power Plant Engg. In order to develop trained manpower for the Operation and Maintenance of Hydro Power Stations, NPTI is conducting a 39 weeks course on “Operation and Maintenance of Hydro Electric Power Stations” at its dedicated Hydro Power Training Institute at (HPTC), Nangal. The objective of this course is to prepare Graduate Engineers well versed with the operation, maintenance and commissioning practices of Hydro Power Stations and developing into competent Hydro Power Station Managers.

24. Six Months Post Graduate Diploma in O&M of Transmission and Distribution Systems In order to create technically trained manpower readily available for recruitment to the Power companies in the area of Transmission & Distribution of electrical power, NPTI’s, specialized Power System Training Institute offers a 26-week Post Graduate Diploma course on ‘O&M of Transmission & Distribution Systems’ for the Graduate Engineers at this Institute.

25. Six Months Post Diploma Course inHydro Power Plant Engg. Sensing the need for requirement of skilled and trained operators at the Supervisory level of Hydro Power Plants, NPTI started this program to fill in the scarcity of this technically trained competent personnel

26. One Year Post Graduate Diploma Course in Sub-Transmission and Distribution Systems NPTI has realized that the amendment in the Indian Electricity Act, have opened private sector participation in the Sub-Transmission & Distribution of Power. It has further created a large demand for the trained persons in Electrical Utilities. NPTI’s Power System Training Institute introduced a ‘52-week Post Graduate Diploma course on ‘Sub-Transmission & Distribution Systems’ from September 2013 onwards. The syllabus for the above course is based on the syllabus framed by CEA for Engineers engaged in Operation and Maintenance of Sub-Transmission and Distribution Systems under Part IV of Sub-regulation (3) of Regulation (vii) under Measures relating to Safety and Electric Supply Regulations, 2010.

27. 100% Campus placement since last 10 years Clientele for MBA Placement PWC KPMG CARE INFRALINE TATA POWER TORRENT POWER ENERCON CAPITAL SUZLON NOIDA POWER PTC SATYAM UJVNL GMR CRISIL TERI LAHMEYER ENZEN NDPL ERUDITE KSK ENERGY VENTURES DATAGEN LNJ BHILWARA MOSER BAER CFL ECO SECURITIES FEEDBACK VENTURES ABPS ADVISORY ADANI CARE ENZEN GLOBAL IL&FS VEDANTA LAHMEYAR LANCO 27

28. Clientele for B-Tech./ PGDC/ PDC Placements TATA POWER ABB SIEMENS TERMAX ROLLS ROYCE ESSAR POWER JINDAL POWER VEDANTA SATYAM TORRENT ESSAR ENRON MALCO ISGEC NDPL STERILITE VENTURES DATAGEN SECURE METERS CROMPTON GREAVES LAHMEYER RELIANCE ENERGY BIRLA COPPER INDIAN CHARGE CROME JP HYDRO KSK ENERGY KLG SYSTEL BECHTEL AREVA – T&D GMR NOIDA POWER

29. Induction Training • NPTI has imparted induction training to fresh Graduate Engineers/Executives of various Power Sector Organizations in the areas of O & M of Thermal Power Plants, CCGT Plants, Hydro Plants, Transmission & Distribution, Regulatory etc. • Some of them are as indicated below: • Tata Power Company Ltd. • National Hydroelectric Power Corpn. Ltd. • Rajasthan Rajya Vidyut Utpadan Nigam Ltd. • LANCO Power • Dakshin Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam Ltd. • Lanco Kondapalli Power Ltd. & PPN Power Generating Company Ltd. • GMR Energy Ltd. • NDPL etc.

30. Induction Training • Lanco Infratech Ltd. • Lanco Vidarbha Thermal Power Ltd. & Udupi Power Corporation Ltd. • UP Rajya Vidyut Utpadan Nigam Ltd. • Bokaro Power Supply Corporation Ltd. • Sterlite Grid Ltd. Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd. • Avantha • CLP (I) Pvt. Ltd. • Ideal Energy Power Ltd. • L&T Power Ltd. • Chhattisgarh State Power Generation Corporation Ltd. • Torrent Power Ltd.

31. Training to International Trainees • Kenya • Nigeria • Ethiopia • Zambia • Syria • Iraq • Sudan • Oman • Myanmar • Bangladesh • Bhutan • Nepal Various Institutes of NPTI have provided training to a number of trainees of foreign countries, some of which are indicated below: • Philippines • Cambodia • Mexico • Malaysia • Afghanistan • Colombia • Ecuador • Guyana

32. Training to IAS Officers NPTI has been selected by Department of Personnel & Training (DoPT) to conduct a Five (5) day Training Program exclusively to IAS officers on “Procurement Procedures & Contracting” DoPT has also included this Five Day Training Program on “Procurement Procedures & Contracting” for IAS Officers in their Annual Training Calendar from 2013-14 onwards

33. Initiative of starting various Short-Term Courses NPTI has taken the initiative of Starting of new short-term training programs on various miscellaneous subjects like Procurement Procedures and Contracting etc.

34. Innovative Initiatives – Information Technology Interface • Simulators • A comprehensive training tool which replicates the complete process of Power Plant Control Room operations in a real-time integrated operation scenario. • Simulators impart effective hands-on, off-job operation skill training resulting in sharpening reflexes of Power Plant Control Room Operators • Operators can observe Plant dynamic responses repeatedly which is impossible and risky in a real Plant scenario. • Malfunctions, Emergencies can be created at will for a comprehensive understanding

35. Hi-Tech Real-Time Operation Simulators More than 10,000 Operation Engineers already trained on these Simulators

36. Simulators – Innovative Training Tool NPTI’s Power Plant Training Simulators are High-quality, High-fidelity, Full Scope, Hi-Tech, Real-Time capable of Training Shift Charge Engineers/Unit Controllers/Operators in the ‘Conventional Panel’ Modes of Unit Operation as well as DDC Plants catering to the express demands of Operational expertise. More than 200 emergency situations have been captured in an integrated plant process dynamic operation scenario. Engineers can experience a full range of operations together with stress situations to become better troubleshooters where it matters the most. More than 10,000 Engineers and Operators have been trained on these Simulators and NPTI by induction of these specially trained engineers/operators did contribute to the overall improvement of all India’s average Plant Load Factor (PLF) of Thermal Power Plants (NPTI has 5 Real-time Simulators)

37. Hi - Tech Real - Time Simulators Bengaluru Faridabad 37 Badarpur Nagpur

38. Training on Hydro Simulator Hydro Power Training Centre, Nangal was established in 2010 and is the only institute in the country having a Hi-Tech Real-time 250 MW Hydro Power Control Room Training Simulator. It is a replica of 250 MW unit of Nathpa Jhakri Hydro Power Station, SJVNL.

39. Training on Despatcher Training Simulator NPTI has a Unique High-fidelity Load Dispatch Operator Training Simulator replicating the National Grid at NPTI’s Specialized Power System Training Institute, Bengaluru which is providing effective integrated operational training requirements to System Operators across the country from various Load Despatch Stations

40. Innovative Initiatives – Information Technology Interface Suitable interventions in HRD with the help of IT were also carried out at NPTI • Multimedia Computer Based Training Packages – to facilitate quick, easy and cost - effective training methodology • NPTI realized that effective training programs constitute these elements; - involves participation of the Learner - Aid Understanding - Provide variety to maintain motivation & interest - Suit the capability of the learner

41. Innovative Initiatives – Information Technology Interface • Multimedia CBT connotes use of text, audio & video. The trainee learns in a self-paced interactional environment with the content back & forth making learning faster and retention easier. • NPTI has developed more than 55 multimedia CBT packages in the complex areas of • - Thermal Boilers - Hydro Generation & Equipment • - Steam Turbines - Transmission & Distribution • - Generators - Renewable Energy • - Gas Turbines - Project Management etc. • Governing Systems • Power Station Auxiliary equipments

42. Established institutes all over the country NPTI is the only institute of its kind in the world with such a wide geographical spread and covering such wide gamut of academic and training programs in Power Sector. NPTI Institutes are strategically located near large Power Plants in order to facilitate the On-Job training and Maintenance practices of Power Stations to our students

43. Hot Line Training Centre NPTI has a Hot Line Training Institute located at Bengaluru, one of its kind in Asia. Training is being imparted by utilizing the experimental live lines in the yard consisting from 11 kV to 220 kV erected in the Training Centre’s premises for this purpose. Demonstration of 400 kV Live Line Insulator Washing of Kalwa Sub – Station of Maha Transco Ltd., Bombay

44. Hot Line Training Centre An Institute of its kind in one part of the globe which conducts Courses for skill development on Live Line Maintenance using Hot Stick for 11 kV – 220 kV System and Bare Hand Technique for 400 kV System Demonstration of 400 kV live line insulator washing of Kalwa Sub – Station of Maha Transco Ltd., Bombay.

45. System Operator Certification NPTI’s Power System Training Institute (PSTI) has for the first time in the country conducted Training & Certification of Power System Operators for executives of NLDC, RLDCs and SLDCs. This course equips System Operators with necessary inputs to take up the System Operators Certification Exam. The first Basic level On-Line System Operator Certification exam was conducted in November, 2011 and subsequently in December, 2012 at various centres across India. A total of 506 System Operators were certified against 627 who appeared for the exam.

46. System Operator Certification Examination NPTI also for the first time conducted Specialist Level Learning & Development courses for certified Basic Level System Operators in ‘Regulatory Framework in Power Sector’ and ‘Power System Reliability’. The first On-line exam for Specialist level Certification on ‘Regulatory Framework in Power Sector’ was held in March, 2013 for Certified Basic level System Operators at various centres across India and 93 System Operators were certified against 181 who appeared for the exam

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48. Publishing of Power Sector related books • PFC has selected NPTI as a Resource Training Institute (RTI) for developing Course Material as well as for conducting Training of Trainers Programs and also as Partner Training Institute (PTI) for preparation of Course Material and Conduction of Training programs under R-APDRP Part C Capacity Building Scheme

49. Publishing in-house books • NPTI has published 9 new books in 2012-13 in addition to its already existing 76 Training Manuals on the following topics: • Basics of Electric Power System • Selected readings on Finance for non-finance Executives • Overview of Indian Power Sector – Organizational Set-up • Communication in Power Sector • Inventory & Stores Management • Selected readings on General Management • Overview of Indian Power Sector – Regulatory Framework • Procurement Procedures and Contracting • Selected Readings on Power System Communication

50. Initiatives as per CEA Regulations As per CEA’s Gazettee Notification September, 2010, Revised Guidelines and Syllabus have been prescribed for various Power Sector areas and Specializations. NPTI is making an all-out effort to prepare comprehensive Study Material for all areas of Thermal, Gas, Hydro, Transmission, Sub-Transmission & Distribution etc., for usage by the entire Power Sector organizations.