Professional Documents
Culture Documents
ON
CSR ACTIVITIES AT NTPC/NSPCL
PRESENTED TO:
Prof. S. K. Biswal
Prof. Biswasree T. Priyadarsini
PRESENTED BY:
GROUP 8
1506260018:
Mausumi Aich
1506260040:
Shuvajit Biswas
1506260042:
Sneha Prasad
1506260044:
Soumya Jaiswal
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CONTENTS
TOPICS
CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
SUSTAINABILITY AND CSR
SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE INVESTORS AND CSR
GLOBAL REPORTING GUIDELINES
NATIONAL THERMAL POWER CORPORATION: INTRODUCTION
NINE PRINCIPLES OF GLOBAL COMPACT AND THEIR STATUS IN NTPC
HUMAN RIGHTS
LABOUR
ENVIRONMENT
NSPCL: NTPC SAIL POWER COMPANY PRIVATE LIMITED
CSR AT NSPCL
CSR AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
DRIVERS OF CSR
CSR GAMUT IN NTPC
CSR-CD COVERAGE
CSR-CD STRUCTURE
POLICIES IN NTPC ON SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITIES
BUDGET
CONCLUSION
All of a sudden, it was okay to lay off people on the pretext of financial gloom.
This means that a few people were benefiting from the woes of a thousand more.
The issue of corporate social responsibility presents itself in this situation in that,
the multi-corporations are run by a board of governors.
The board of governors is usually composed of a few individuals that call all the
shots. It is common knowledge that these corporations employ a huge number of
persons in many sectors of the economy. When the profits of these gigantic
companies fail to reach a certain goal, the running costs of the business have to
be checked. This is why, the few persons at the top, not wanting to lose, resort to
firing some people. This is done so as to maintain the profits at a certain level.
The problem is that when all of the multinational companies resort to firing a
few employees, the net effect is that, a large number of persons end up losing
their jobs.
Corporate social responsibility ensures that corporations the world over are
engaged in other activities that give back to the community (Crowther and
Rayman-Bacchu 172). Many activities that are considered helpful include;
organizing activities that seek to involve the community in such events as fund
raising for the needy, events that seek to help out the disadvantage in society and
other similar activities. In the financial and corporate world, corporate social
responsibility a given with a positive impact on performance. There are, however,
several factors that show the need for corporate social responsibility. The first
factor is population. The expanding population in developing regions will create
larger markets dominated by younger individuals with questionable access to the
developed worlds standard of living. Statistics show that more than eighty five
percent of the worlds population will live in developing countries by 2025
(Crowther and Rayman-Bacchu 165). This presents a challenge to companies
seeking to involve themselves in corporate social responsibility, since it is clear
that a lot of financial support will be required for these populations.
The second factor is wealth. Despite the fact that global wealth is rising, the
income gap has grown wider, threatening civil society. Seventy eight percent of
the world can be classified as poor, with eleven percent in the middle class, and
only eleven percent can be classified as rich. Each and every company should
strive to be involved in attempting to balance this distribution of wealth. The
trend of the rich growing richer while the poor grow poorer should be eliminated,
since it is unethical for some people to have so much, and others to have nothing
at all. The third factor is nutrition. There are millions of people who are
malnourished, amidst an abundance of food. Thousands die of hunger every year,
while rich corporations blow millions on fancy holidays for their executives. It
is crucial for each company to take time and reflect on the finances it spends on
benefits for its executives, as compared to that spent on helping the needy in
society. While these benefits are vital for employee motivation, they should not
For achieving its mission and objective, NTPC formulated specific policies, as
delineated in subsequent paras of this note. The policies were formulated to
address the issue of corporate social responsibility in a comprehensive and
systematic manner.
Nine Principles of Global Compact and their Status in NTPC
NTPC has formally expressed it's support for the Global Compact and committed
to take action in this regard. In fact, NTPC has always been committed to the
nine principles of the Global Compact, which are as below:
Human Rights
To support and respect International Human Rights with the
company's sphere of influence.
To make sure that their own corporations are not complicit with
Human rights violation.
NTPC has been maintaining transparency and sharing the information
concerning different stakeholders through various consultative and participatory
forums.
Labour
To end discrimination in the workplace
Abolition of child labor
The right to collective bargaining and recognition of freedom of
association
To eliminate the use of forced and compulsory labor
NTPC has formulated specific policies and created consultative and participatory
forums to address these principles.
Environment
To support a precautionary approach to environmental challenges.
Operational excellence
Orienation
People
effective power
Sustainable growth
Respect
Innovativeness
Teamwork
CSR at NSPCL
In NSPCL, thrust on Environment management, Corporate Social Responsibility,
Sustainable development and upliftment of marginalised and under-privileged
sections of society are given.
Environment Management and Safety
NSPCL has been taking various pro-active measures for improvement in the
areas of Environment Management. Environmental conditions at the plants have
improved substantially. NSPCL is fully committed to ensure and provide safe
and healthy work environment to comply with applicable regulations and
statutory requirements and it has already formulated and approved safety policy
for implementation. Regular plant inspections are being carried out to identify
unsafe condition and practices, if any, and corrective measures taken, wherever
necessary. NSPCL has also taken measures to continuously improve the systems
and procedures, provides training and arranges awareness programme for all
concerned. Safety Awareness Programmes are also held periodically.
CPP-II Rourkela won prestigious First prize in CH (Odisha) Award for Best
Practices in Safety, Health & Environment. Rourkela also bagged the Gold
Awards for Environment & Safety Greentech in Power Sector category for the
year 2012 in recognition of its excellent work done in environment management
as well as concern and commitment towards safety & environment protection at
its plant (CPP-II) inside Rourkela Steel Plant. CPP-II Durgapur also bagged the
Gold & Silver Awards for Safety & Environment respectively from Greentech in
Power Sector category for the year 2012. These prestigious Awards are presented
every year to companies demonstrating the highest level of commitment to
Environment Management and Corporate Social Responsibility.
productive purposes. Major utilization was in the areas of Ash Dyke raising, land
development, cement manufacturing etc. Action has been initiated to install
automated ash evacuation system to improve the environment in the plant area
and optimize ash utilization.
Tree Plantation
NSPCL has planted more than 25,000 trees during FY 12-13 around its projects
as a measure to take massive afforestation, which is protecting ecology and
environment.
Awards
NSPCL received the following prestigious Scope Excellence Awards from
Honble President of India: -Institutional Category III (Other Profit Making
PSEs) for the year 2011-12 - Gold Trophy & a Citation. -Institutional Category
III (Other Profit Making PSEs) for the year 2013-14 - Commendation Certificate.
NSPCL has been conferred with prestigious Global HR Excellence Awards for
Best Corporate Social Responsibility Practices, Leading HR Practices in Quality
Work-Life and Best Talent Management Award at the World HRD Congress.
Rourkela, Durgapur and Bhilai (PP-II) Units of NSPCL were conferred the
prestigious Greentech Safety Gold Award in Thermal Power Sector category for
the year 2015. The Certificate of Award and Trophies were presented GOLD
award during the 14th Annual Greentech Occupational Health, Safety & Fire
Conference held on 24-25th July, 2015 in Goa
NSPCL Rourkela was conferred the prestigious State Safety Award for the
performance year 2011 & 12 for Longest Accident Free period and Lowest
Frequency rate of Accidents. The Award is instituted jointly by the Dept. Of
Labour & ESI, Govt. of Odisha and the Directorate of Factories & Boilers,
Odisha. The Certificate of Award and Trophy was presented during the State
Safety Award function held on 11th June, 2015 in Bhubaneswar.
Sh S. V. Shahi, Chief Finance Officer, NSPCL has been conferred with the
prestigious India Pride Awards 2014-15 in the Excellence as Head of
Department category. The award was presented by Shri Arun Jaitley, Honble
Union Cabinet Minister for Finance, Corporate Affairs and Information &
Broadcasting during an Award function organized by Dainik Bhaskar on June 4,
2015 in New Delhi
NSPCL-Rourkela has won the prestigious Prashansa Patra for Safety Category
under the Manufacturing Sector Awards from NSCI (National Safety Council of
India) for the Year - 2014.
NSPCL Rourkela was conferred the prestigious Greentech Award 2014
(Platinum) in the Environment Category in Thermal Power Sector.
NSPCL, Rourkela has won the prestigious National Safety Council of India
Safety Awards 2013 for implementing effective management system &
Procedures and achieving good performance in Operation, Safety and Health for
the assessment period of three years 2010-12
The Quality Circle teams of NSPCL, Rourkela have been consistently
performing well at the International and National levels. The QC Sambhavana
bagged Par Excellence award, and QC teams, Jyoti & Prerna bagged the
excellence award in National Convention of Quality Circle organised by QCFI
at Pimpri Chinchwara Engineering College, Pune from 19- 22 Dec, 2014
NSPCL received the following prestigious Scope Excellence Awards from
Honble President of India: -Institutional Category III (Other Profit Making
PSEs) for the year 2011-12 - Gold Trophy
Drivers of CSR
Mission: Develop and provide reliable power, related products and services at
competitive prices, integrating multiple energy sources with innovative and ecofriendly technologies and contribute to society
Objectives on CSR:
To contribute to sustainable power development by discharging
Corporate Social Responsibilities.
To lead the sector in the areas of resettlement and rehabilitation and
environment protection including effective ash utilization, peripheral
development and energy conservation practices.
Core Values (BECOMITTED):
Business ethics
Environmentally & Economically Sustainable Customer focus
Organizational & professional pride
Mutual respect and trust
Innovation and speed
Total quality for excellence
Transparent & Respected Organization
Enterprising
Devoted
CSR in NTPC is a deeply ingrained belief of doing business by adding
value to the community and society on a sustainable basis through dedicated
policies, institutional setup and engagement process to promote inclusive
growth.. Arup Roy Choudhury, CMD NTPC
CSR-CD Coverage
The activities are taken up at Three levels:
Station level:
Neighbourhood villages through Need Assessment and consultation with local
community and other stakeholders
Regional/National level:
For addressing socio-economic issues at national level and overall development
of States in which NTPC operates to improve visibility and impact
Other Strategically important activities and new initiatives:
Activities of strategically important nature in relation to Business Goals and
new Corporate driven initiatives.
CSR-CD Structure
Structure:
3 tier structure involving Corporate, Region and Operating Units.
Corporate Centre responsible for Policy related issues, Monitoring,
Capacity Building and Assistance to Operating Unit and Region.
Nodal Officer sat Stations and Coordinators at Regions responsible for
Planning& implementation.
NTPC Foundation setup for national level activities like Information and
Communication Technology (ICT) Centre, Disability Rehabilitation
Center (DRC), Directly Observable Treatment (DOT) Center and
Distributed Generation
Fund allocation
Board of Directors approves the Policy, Guidelines & overall allocation
for CSR in line with DPE Guidelines.
Allocation for specific activities is approved by Group of Directors on
CSR.
Activities are chosen from the basket of CSR activities within overall
allocation.
The objective of the Award Scheme is to induce a Team Spirit amongst all
employees of Projects/Stations, to bring in a sense of competitiveness amongst
all employees and the teams and to reward the best performing project/station.
Viswakarama Rashtriya Puraskar
The Ministry of Labour, Government of India have been operating the
Viswakarma Rashtriya Puraskar since 1965. It covers the workers in factories,
mines, plantations and docks. The scheme is open to only such undertakings
where suggestion schemes are in operation. Suggestions accepted by the
management and adopted during the previous calendar year in respect of any of
the following qualify for the grant of Rashtriya Puraskar.
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Raising productivity
Increasing the efficiency of the organisation and management
Inventions and improvements that bring about saving in materials
including fuel, power and explosives, reduction in production time and
improvement in the utilisation of plant and equipment.
Improvement in quality of products or their designs.
Lightening physical efforts in certain operations and thereby leading
to increased productivity.
Better utilisation of waste or scrap material.
Improving ways and means for using indigenous articles in place of
imported ones.
Improvement of working conditions including safety, health and
welfare and in the case of mines improvement of strata control support
of mine workings, safety standards, safety devices and environmental
conditions and improvement in methods for prevention for industrial
diseases.
Make working and general environment safe.
Gender equality
The HR policies and the practices ensure gender equality. NTPC is one of the
few organizations to have a policy for grant of paternity leave. Adequate
mechanism has been provided in the form of a committee for investigating
complaints relating to sexual harassment of working women. NTPC also taps
rich resources available in families of employees. Ladies' clubs/Mahila
Mandals at each of the projects utilises this potential for educational, health and
other community development projects in and around the project areas.
SC/ST
NTPC has endeavored that it takes responsibility for adequate representation of
SC/ST and OBC categories in employment. Towards this effort, there have been
exclusive advertisements/notifications for employment of SC/ST category
candidates. These vacancies are circulated to all accredited SC/ST associations
as prescribed under Govt. guidelines.
Special Efforts for Physically Challenged People
NTPC has a deep-rooted commitment to reach out and light up lives of physically
challenged people. Apart from the medical camps as described above, equal
employment opportunities are offered to this special category of individuals as
defined under Persons with Disabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protection of
Rights and Full participation) Act 1995. With 125 such persons already
provided regular employment, 200 odd are more likely to be recruited at various
projects in the near future. Such a massive effort of this magnitude has never
been undertaken by any organisation in the past. This has been done because
NTPC has committed itself to provide enhanced employment opportunities to
disabled persons.
Education
NTPC has been providing quality primary and secondary schooling facilities to
the children of its staff and that of neighbouring community in its township
located all over India. For this purpose, NTPC provides funds to schools for
equipments, etc. and to also meet their recurring expenditure deficits on need
basis.
In all NTPC opened 45 schools in its township located all over India in which
approximately 43405 students are studying. The schools are categorized in the
following manner:
State schools run on state syllabus and as per State Government norms.
Central Schools, which run as per Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan (KVS) norms;
and
Private schools run by various management such as Delhi Public School, DAV
society, Chinmaya Mission etc.
Workers Education Scheme
The scheme, operated in collaboration with the Central Board of Workers'
Education (CBWE), covers all employees in the workman category irrespective
of their educational qualification. The policy provides for books and stationery
free of cost, daily time off for attending classes, award of certificates on
successful completion of the course and cash awards to outstanding participants.
Neighboring Communities
For the benefits of the land oustees and the villagers of the neighboring affected
villages, NTPC under the policy on R&R establishes / augments the
infrastructure facilities for education like the primary school, furniture and
equipment in the school.
The children of land oustees are also provided with free books and stationery
as per the need. The land oustees are also sponsored for professional courses
for enhancing their employability.
NTPC also has a policy of scholarship for the scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe
children, who join professional courses. The scholarship is provided for 3 years
during the course of study.
Health
The organization provides comprehensive medical care to employees and their
families inclusive of promotive, curative and preventive healthcare. It also
provides adequate health care to the community around the project sites.
With 17 well-equipped project hospitals at its project sites with 700 hospital beds
and 58 empanelled hospitals located centrally and at regions, it achieves the
above objectives. A fully dedicated team of 250 Doctors and around 1000 para
medical staff, NTPC takes scarce quality medical care to the doorsteps of
employees in the project in locations where even Govt. Primary Health Care is
sadly inadequate. While 7 of the 17 hospitals, provide primary and emergency
health care, the other 10 major hospitals also provide secondary health care.
The empanelled hospitals provide the tertiary health care services. With the
above efforts the mean employee age has increased.
Regular Employees
All regular employees, trainees and apprentices and their family members are
fully covered under the medical policy of NTPC. Full-fledged company
hospitals have been established in the projects township. In addition to
provision of allopathic system, NTPC promotes the alternative systems like
homeopathic and ayurvedic system of medicine.
NTPC also has a policy of annual comprehensive health check-up for the
employees above the age of 45 years, and health check up once in two years for
the employees in the age groups of 40-45. The employees working in
hazardous areas in the project undergo regular comprehensive health check-up.
Social security for Retired employees
NTPC has a contributory scheme for provision of medical facilities on
superannuation for the employees and their spouses.
Land Oustees
NTPC has a specific scheme for medical facilities to the land oustees and their
families wherein 80% rebate is given for the consultation charges and for indoor
treatment in NTPC hospitals. NTPC also facilitates health insurance scheme
for land oustees through the insurance companies and contributes partly to
annual insurance premium to be paid by the land oustees.
Community Development
NTPC provides basic infrastructure for the primary health center/dispensaries in
the affected villages. In addition, NTPC has been extending medical facilities in
its project hospitals to the needy and poor people free of cost. Regular health
check-ups of the students are organized in the neighbouring villages.
Spreading the social concern to the surrounding areas, the National Program
enforced by the Family Planning camps, Blood donation camps, immunisation
schedules, Eye camps, Heart disease prevention camps, cancer detection camps,
school medical checkups etc. are organised for non-entitled people at the project
hospitals at places where the Govt. Primary Health Care is sadly inadequate.
Physically challenged people
NTPC has been organising free medical camps periodically in many of its
projects for the benefit of disabled persons. Special equipment for the aid of
disabled persons have also been distributed at out projects.
Accommodation
is provided by our projects to any agency/voluntary organisation for the aid of
disabled persons, besides providing any other assistance.
Rural Sports
NTPC also lays stress on rural sports and projects conduct rural meets on annual
basis.
It also encourages the local schools in the vicinity to conduct
games/tournaments and provides them facilities in terms of sports equipments,
grounds etc. Inter School Sports Meet within the projects are also held on a
regular basis to identify young talent among the children of our employees as
well as neighbourhood.
National Calamities
NTPC from time to time has donated towards the various Relief Funds at the
time of natural calamities to the Prime Minister's National Relief Fund, Prime
Minister's National Defence Fund, Chief Ministers Relief Fund of Maharashtra,
Gujarat, Rajasthan, Orissa, Madhya Pradesh, West Bengal. In addition to this,
NTPC has sent a teams of Doctors, Engineers to the affected areas for restoration
works.
NTPC undertook a massive relief and restoration work for the benefit of persons
affected by the earthquake that occurred in Bhuj in Gujarat on 26.02.01. NTPC
undertook to run community kitchens in the affected areas besides providing
relief material to the affected persons. Doctors from NTPC worked day and
night to provide medical assistance. Engineers undertook to carry out massive
repair jobs necessary for restoring electrical distribution systems.
Social Security for Old age/retirement
NTPC provides the following benefits: Employees provident fund
Gratuity
Employees voluntary benevolent fund
Self-contributory superannuation benefit (Pension Scheme)
Safety
1. Safety policy has been drawn up and communicated to all the employees
at Projects/Stations.
2. Guidelines have been formulated for constituting committees to conduct
inquiries in cases of various types of accidents and dangerous occurrences,
to prevent their recurrence in future.
3. A detailed procedure for reporting of accidents and dangerous
occurrences has been prepared. Detailed Safety Rules for construction
and erection, electrical and mechanical have been prepared to ensure the
safety of the employees working in Construction, Operation and
Maintenance Plants.
4. All NTPC projects/stations are having Disaster management Plans to
ensure the safety of people and protection of the environment in case of
any disaster.
Regular mock drills are organized at regular intervals to
educate the people and keep the system in readiness.
5. Personal protective equipment is provided to all the employees at
projects, who are working in hazardous areas. Fire Detection and
Protection System have been provided at all vulnerable areas.
Effective functioning of the system is ensured through periodical
inspection and monitoring.
6. Comprehensive Safety Clauses have been incorporated in the General
Conditions of the Contract for Construction & Erection and Operation &
Maintenance Works to ensure the safety of the contractors' employees.
7. NTPC organizes Safety Audit of all its Projects/Stations every year by the
Safety officers of the other projects. The Safety Audit is done by
external professional agencies like National Safety Council, Loss
Prevention Association of India, Tata Risk Management Services of India
etc. to identify the hazardous conditions and take appropriate corrective
action.
8. NTPC Projects/Stations has received many National/International Safety
Awards.
During the year 2000, eleven NTPC projects/stations received
Safety Awards from British Safety Council.
In May 2000, NCPPDadri station has also received SHRESHTHA SURAKASHA
Gandhi Unchahar and Dadri thermal power stations have received awards on
'Ash utilisation and its Safe Disposal" from council of Power Utilities and
Central Board of Irrigation & Power. NTPC also received "Jawahar Lal Nehru
Memorial Award, 1999 for Best Environment and Ecological Implementation"
from International Greenland Society, Indo-German Green Tech Environment
Excellence Award 1999-2000 for Corporate Centre, Dadri and Kawas Station
and the Golden Peacock Environment Management Award -2001 from the World
Environment Foundation, Excellent Environmental & Ecological
Implementation Award 2000-2001 from International Greenland Society,
Hyderabad. NTPC Kahalgaon received Industrial Pollution Control Award,
2000-2001 from Bihar State Pollution Control Board, Patna.
Afforestation
Green belts and massive plantations continues to be done at its projects and till
date around 14.9 million trees have been planted at its different projects.
Further, in accordance with the decision taken by Ministry of Power,
Government of India, necessary action is under way for creation of Special
Purpose Vehicle (SPV) for Afforestation.
Afforestation is yet another area which needs careful consideration. Massive
afforestation is required in and around power plants to act as a sink to the
pollutants. Coal burnt in a 1000 MW power plant is around 4 million tonnes
per annum resulting in around 5 million tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions
annually. In order to sequester this carbon dioxide, around 400 sq. km of forests
having plants with 8-10 years of age would be required. In addition, serious
attempts may have to be made to reclaim the abandoned ash ponds. Scientific
research has shown that waste land can be successfully converted into green
forests, if proper care is taken to select the species of plants. Thus abandoned
ash ponds can be successfully reclaimed as already done at Ramagundam.
In NTPC, in view of the above, around 14.9 million trees have already been
planted in and around its power stations. Further, a concept of "Special Purpose
Vehicle (SPV) for afforestation has been thought of recently with the objective
of creating forest bank to act as sink for Green House Gas emissions, increase
the national forest cover, as also, for speedy forest clearance for power projects.
Power plants acquire sizable chunk of land for setting up power plants and
extending transmission lines. In most of the power plants, acquisition of forest
land is also involved which needs forest clearance from State Authorities and
MoEF. The existing system of Compensatory Afforestation, is a long drawn
process and delays the implementation of power projects resulting in cost and
time over run of the project. The role of Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) is
envisaged to identify suitable land for afforestation through MoEF and State
Forest Department and maintain a buffer of such forest cover. This forest bank
is to be treated as 'Compensatory Afforestation" and to be scored off against
Institutional Setup
For HR functions
Employees' Participation in Management (EPM) has been one of the strong
pillars holding up NTPC since its inception. The company has witnessed high
performance and tremendous growth in a short period of 25 years and this can
largely be attributed to the deep-rooted involvement of its employees in the
process of management.
NTPC has 22 projects (including Tanda Thermal Power Station, taken over from
the erstwhile UPSEB) in its fold today and the participation of over 24,000
employees in the management process takes place, at mainly, three levels, viz.
Project/Station level, Regional level, and Corporate level.
Project/Station Level
Each projects has an apex-level Plant Level Council and a number of (usually 45) Shop/Department Level Councils.
Besides PLC/SLCs various joint
committees are formed to deal with aspects such as safety, township, sports,
recreation etc.
i) Apex Level Plant Level Council (PLC)
Constituted to discuss plant level issues - information sharing on generation &
production targets, productivity, elimination of wasteful practices, inventory
reduction, general health, welfare & safety, and any issue referred by ship
councils. The members include - Head of Project as the Chairman, 3 members
representing the management and 3 members representing employees.
ii) Shop Level Council (SLC)
Constituted to discuss department level issues - Improvement of production,
productivity & efficiency, elimination of wastage, improvement in working
conditions, safety etc. The members include - Head of Department as the
Chairman, 8-12 members equally representing the management and employees.
iii) Other Bipartite Fora at Project Level
Various joint committees, represented equally by management and employees,
are constituted at the project level to take care of issues related to employees'
welfare. The important joint committees are:
needs of PAPs and local conditions, even though not envisaged in the
RAPs, NTPC strongly feels that such activities go a long way in building
a relationship of trust with PAPs.
2. Deployment of Consultants/Advisors
The need of deploying the experienced experts has been felt to
supplement the efforts of NTPC in addressing various R&R issues and in
implementation of income generation schemes at Projects.
3. Deployment of social scientists
R&R Cell require complex mix of skills to address the need of
understanding social, cultural and traditional aspects of the people
affected due to our project and establish vital communication links
between PAPs, NGOs and NTPC. To fulfil these objective, social
scientists with requisite qualification and field experience have been
deployed at projects.
4. Participation of Stakeholders
The consultation with the PAPs and NGOs are vital for assessing their
requirement of rehabilitation and resettlement. This is done in NTPC in
a participative manner for which various systems have been
institutionalized. The R&R schemes and plans are regularly discussed
with PAPs and their representatives through Public Information Center
(PIC) and Village Development Advisory Committee (VDAC). Their
suggestions are studied and the schemes and plans are modified,
whenever felt necessary.
5. Public Information Center (PIC)
To maintain transparency and keep the PAPs informed, NTPC has
established PICs at Corporate Center and at Projects where all documents
such as socio-economic survey reports, RAPs / ReAPs, land records,
policy and other relevant documents are kept for public view. The PAPs
are encouraged to refer to any document and can register their queries /
grievances in a register kept at the PIC. At sites, social scientists are
available at PIC for interacting with PAPs & listening to their grievances
and explaining them the documents.
6. Village Development Advisory Committee (VDAC)
For institutionalizing the public consultation and preparation of
rehabilitation schemes in a participative manner, NTPC has established
VDACs at various projects. The representatives of PAPs, Gram Pradhan,
Panchayat representative, Block Development Officer, other
representatives of State Govt. and NGOs are the members of VDAC.
Regular meetings are held where their suggestions are invited and the
schemes and plans are modified, whenever felt necessary. The records
of meetings are kept in the PIC for the information of public. The socioeconomic survey report and RAP/ReAP are also discussed in the VDAC.
7. Grievance Redressal Mechanism
For redressing the grievances of PAPs, NTPC has established Grievance
Redressal Mechanism at each project. The PAPs can give their
grievances in the PIC which are suitably taken care of by the management.
8. Involvement of NGOs
The NGOs are identified as important stakeholders and are actively
involved in the R&R activities. They are involved in the consultation
process and are taken as member of VDAC. They are also involved in
implementation of various income generating schemes.
ENVIRONMENT FUNCTIONS
NTPC has constituted different Environment Groups for carrying out specific
environment related functions.
1. Environment Engineering Group (EEG)
The Environment Engineering Group (EEG) at the Corporate Center was
created as early as 1980, even before the formulation of the relevant
environmental acts. It has the responsibility for selecting the environmentally
compatible sites for the new green-field projects, conducting the
Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) studies for new project sites and
obtaining Environmental Clearances, finalization the specifications of
pollution monitoring equipment for new projects and works related to preoperational stages of the projects.
2. Environment Management Groups (EMGs)
The Environment Management Groups (EMGs) were constituted in 199192 at all stations of NTPC, Regional Headquarters and at the Corporate
Center. It has the responsibility of providing thrust to the environment
functions of the operational stage of the plants, formulating the
environmental policy of the organization, complying with the statutory
norms and initiating suitable mitigatory measures to minimize pollution.
3. Ash Utilization Division (AUD)
In order to impart thrust for utilization of ash in all NTPC Stations, a
separate Ash Utilization Division was created in 1991. This division
formulates the policy, plans and programs for ash utilization. Each
station has a dedicated Ash Utilization Coordinator. The AUD controls
and monitors the progress of ash utilization at each station.
BUDGET
NTPC has fully internalised the provisions of budgets for operationalisation of
it's social responsibility both during the formulation and during operation of its
projects. For new/expansion projects, the environmental safeguards are built
into design specifications of the project and cost of such safeguards becomes
integral part of the project cost.
The cost of rehabilitation, resettlement and
community development plan also forms the integral part of the project cost.
For operating stations, specific budgets are provided for operationalisation of all
social welfare policies under the O&M budget.
Conclusion