(THE NEWSMAN OF INDIA.COM) 6 December 2024, Gurugram: Power Grid Corporation of India Limited (POWERGRID), a ‘Maharatna’ Public Sector Enterprise under Ministry of Power, Government of India, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with IIT Roorkee for a ₹20.73 crore Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) contribution to foster technology innovation through establishment of three state-of-the-art Centres of Excellence (CoEs) at Institute Computer Centre.

MoU was signed in the presence of R. K. Tyagi, Chairman and Managing Director, Dr. Yatindra Dwivedi, Director (Personnel), Naveen Srivastava, Director (Operations), Vamsi Rama Mohan Burra, Director (Projects), Vikram Singh Bhal, ED (CC-CMG), A. Nagaraju, ED(CSR & SR-I) from POWERGRID, Jasbir Singh, ED from CTUIL, Prof. K. K. Pant, Director & Prof. Sateesh Kumar Peddoju, Head Institute Computer Center from IIT Roorkee and other senior dignitaries & officials from both the organizations.

Arvind Kumar Rai, Sr. GM (CSR), POWERGRID and Prof. R. D. Garg, Dean of Resources and Alumni, IIT Roorkee signed this MoU at Corporate Centre, POWERGRID for establishment of these Centres of Excellence (CoEs), which include a Command-and-Control Centre for campus UHS networks, an IoT Research & Application Centre, and a Lab for Cyber Security and Mobile Security Hackathons and awareness programmes. This initiative is expected to benefit nearly 11,000 on-campus students of IIT Roorkee and others, enabling cutting-edge research and development. IIT Roorkee, established in 1847 is an institute of national importance imparting higher education in engineering, sciences, management, architecture and planning, and humanities and social sciences.

Corporate Social Responsibility is embedded into POWERGRID’s business model and is aligned towards United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. POWERGRID has been consistently contributing to the field of economic and social development across the country with its CSR initiatives.

As on 30th November 2024, POWERGRID has commissioned and operated 280 Sub-stations and more than 1,78,975 ckm transmission lines and 5,45,961 MVA of transformation capacity. With the adoption of the latest technological tools and techniques, enhanced use of automation and digital solutions, POWERGRID has been able to maintain average transmission system availability of 99.80%.