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Towards emPOWERING India The POWERGRID portal acts both as the information portal as well as single platform for web service delivery. What other services are in pipeline? POWERGRID has adopted a multidimensional approach for empowering all users of its IT enabled services and facilities covering all its functional areas for the benefit of all stakeholders such as the Organisation, employees, government, clientsstate electricity boards and peer organisation, business partners/vendor community, citizens and society at large. The services which are in the pipeline are - HRD Information Management Services, HR Appraisal Information Management Services, Engineering Information Management Services, Library Information Management Services, Vigilance Information Management System, Contracts Information Management System and Rajbhasha Information Management System.
S K Chaturvedi Chairman and Managing Director Power Grid Corporation of India Limited
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Your organisation extensively uses e-Training through video-conferencing. What are the key learnings and outcome of it? Video conferencing facility is being used for online interaction among personnel of all levels at Corporate Centre and Regional Head quarters on regular basis for various purposes e.g project monitoring, budget monitoring, e-Training and top management reviews. The use of videoconferencing system has resulted in huge cost saving, time saving, online interaction and knowledge sharing, quick decision making and prompt resolution of problems. What are the other e-Governance projects lined up for 2009 ? POWERGRID has envisaged various endeavours for the year 2009: e-Procurement, Enterprise Asset Management system and Information Services. POWERTEL offers India with telecom network which acts as a support to the e-Governance initiatives of Govt of India and various state governments. What is the current business scenario of POWERTEL and what do you foresee in the near future? www.egovonline.net
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POWERTEL is having an all India telecom backbone network networks to meet high Service Level Agreement (SLA) of 20,000Kms covering over 110 cities and towns including demanded by customers, high cost of RoW and intra city remote areas in North East India and Jammu and Kashmir. access network for last mile connectivity. The services offered include end to end bandwidth, ethernet private leased lines and Internet services. Multiprotocol Label POWERGRID provides consultancy to various Switching (MPLS) / Virtual Private Network (VPN) services international governments. What is your USP? Based on our rich experience earned are also offered in association with through implementation of huge other service providers. However, transmission network in India POWERTEL will offer MPLS/VPN POWERGRID by adopting latest technology in services on its own very soon. The multifarious topology and environment, major telecom operators, Government has the unique POWERGRID has emerged as a departments, Multi National renowned global consultant in Power Companies (MNCs) and media are in advantage of Sector. The expertise of POWERGRID in our clientele. being an Owner the field of studies, design, engineering, POWERGRID has laid Optical procurement, inspection, project Ground Wire (OPGW) only on 1/3rd turned Consultant. management, construction supervision, of its power transmission network. The feed back obtained human resource development, spare Depending on demand POWERGRID parts management, operation and can lay Optical Fiber on its remaining while carrying out maintenance have enabled it to part of transmission network in a the Operation & successfully undertake large number of phased manner. POWERTEL is poised consultancy assignments for national to become a strong National Long Maintenance of its and international clients including Distance (NLD) player and Integrated projects is ploughed Afghanistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Dubai, Telecom & IT service provider by Sri Lanka, Nigeria, Bangladesh and establishing 40 GB Next Generation back to its design various State Electricity Boards in Network and state-of-the-art Data India. POWERGRID has so far executed Centres and further we would be departments 280 consultancy assignments with entering into sharing of our tower for continual aggregated business of more than US$ infrastructure for rural connectivity 275 million. POWERGRID has a well for which we have conducted pilot improvement� established and dedicated Business projects successfully. Development Division backed up by more than 2600 experts, who not only What are the key challenges that you have faced in providing telecommunications network cater to the requirement of the in-house projects but also provide consultancy services of international standards to in India? POWERTEL is a relatively new entrant in the telecom business various power utilities and State Electricity Boards and other segment as our core business is on power transmission. The clients outside the country as well. major challenges that we have faced in this sector are highly Nilakshi Barooah competitive and dynamic market environment, building nilakshi@egovonline.net
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