Power Grid Corporation Of India Ltd.

Power Grid Corporation of India’s (PGCIL) southern region transmission system-II has received national award for its performance in power transmission system availability. The award has been instituted by the Union Ministry of Power for the year 2010-11.

R.N. Nayak, CMD, PowerGrid, and Bharat Bhushan, Executive Director PowerGrid-SRTS-II, received the award from Sushilkumar Shinde, Union Minister of Power. This award instituted by the ministry to inculcate competitive spirit and to motivate the power utilities to achieve higher levels of performance.

PGCIL is India’s principal electric power transmission company. It owns and operates most of India’s interstate and inter-regional electric power transmission systems with inter-regional power transfer capacity of about 20,800 MW and wheels nearly 45% of total power generated across India.