Why Power Grid Corporation of India Limited is a Great Place to Work
Power Grid Corporation of India Limited is a Great Place to Work-Certified™ organization. The company has created a Great Place to Work FOR ALL their employees by excelling on the 5 dimensions of a High-Trust, High-Performance Culture™ – Credibility, Respect, Fairness, Pride and Camaraderie. Power Grid Corporation of India Limited is recognized among India's Best Companies to Work For 2022 - Rank 79. Every year, Great Place to Work® identifies India's 100 Best Companies to Work For (with employee strength more than 500) through an objective and rigorous workplace culture assessment process.
Power Grid Corporation of India Limited, a “Maharatna” Central Public Sector Enterprise operating under the Ministry of Power is engaged in power transmission business with the responsibility for planning, coordination, supervision and control over inter-State transmission system. POWERGRID is India’s largest Electric Power Transmission Utility Listed Company since 2007 and consistently rated “Excellent” under Memorandum of Understanding with Ministry of Power since 1993-94. POWERGRID has a credit rating International: at par with Sovereign rating i.e. ‘BBB-’ (Outlook: Stable) by Fitch and S&P and Domestic: Stable/ Highest Safety rating ‘AAA’ by CARE, CRISIL & ICRA. POWERGRID transmits about 85% of the total power generated in India on its transmission network. POWERGRID owns 172,557 circuit km Transmission Lines with 265 Sub-Stations and 480,457 MVA Transformation Capacity with more than 99 % of System Availability. POWERGRID provides Transmission related consultancy to more than 150 domestic clients and has global footprints in 23 countries catering to more than 25 clients. Power Grid Corporation of India Limited continues to offer an inspiring work environment to its employees. This is reflected in the multiple employee-friendly policies that ensure a developing, empowered, balanced and supportive work environment. The company has focused its efforts on creating a highly communicative culture – with channels that ensure full & transparent information sharing from the top as well as bottom-up communication – where employees are free to share their feedback, suggestions and opinions. In addition to this, there are initiatives and avenues to appreciate employees – for their efforts, performance and contribution to the company, which motivates them to go above & beyond their call of work. Also, the company goes beyond its employees to support the larger community through it multiple CSR efforts, programs and outreach.
Some of the Best People Practices and Initiatives at Power Grid Corporation of India Limited include -
“Pension Adalat” - This was initiated to address Pension related grievances/issues of its retired employees/nominees of deceased employees. Recently the Pension Adalat was held virtually on 22nd January 2021 through MS Team, which was well received and appreciated by the retired employees/nominees of deceased employees. All issues raised in the said Adalat has been successfully disposed of except one case which is under process and likely to be settled shortly.
Power Setu App - In order to facilitate seamless and expeditious settlement of medical claims of the retired employees and nominees of the deceased employees, the erstwhile manual process of settlement of Medical Claims was moved online in the year 2018. This enabled greater transparency and responsibility in the settlement of claims. Further, it also ensured that the basic, essential benefit of medical services became accessible to them from the comfort of their house. Further, to facilitate former employees to access their Post-Retirement Medical benefits a mobile App namely “POWER SETU” has been developed in-house by their IT/ERP Team.
Energy, Oil and Gas
Gurgaon
8760 Employees
