National HR Summit on TRANSFORMING HR: INDIAN POWER SECTOR- BIMTECH

On Jan 21, 2016

@BIMTECHNOIDA NHRDI NATIONAL HR SUMMIT ON TRANSFORMING HR IN POWER SECTOR

Birla Institute of Management Technology, Greater Noida in association with NHRD network, Power HR forum and Deloitte, organized its National HR Summit on the theme “Transforming HR in Indian Power Sector” at the Hotel Ashoka, New Delhi.

The objective of the Summit was to examine and deliberate some urgent and important HR issues in order to re-align HR, focusing on the much needed transformation to meet the emerging changes and challenges in Indian Power Sector of today‘s dynamic VUCA world, in the coming decade.There were HR professionals from leading companies of the power sector- NTPC Ltd, Human Capital Consulting, Energy InfratechPvt Ltd, Central Electricity authority and many others.

The Inaugural Session of the summit started with the welcome address by Dr. Harivansh Chaturvedi, Director, BIMTECH. He extended a warm welcome to the Chief Guest, speakers and other delegates.

The Contours of this Summit,was given byMr. U P Pani, President – Power HR Forum& Director (HR), NTPC Ltd. He gave a clear cut vision on the theme of the summit. He started with a brief overview of the power sector, further telling the increase in growth rate of 8.5% from 2014-15 to 2015-16 followed by his thoughts on the immense opportunities available in the power sector due to generation of new projects by Central and the state government.

The Theme Alignment was given byMr. Ajit Mathai, Director, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu India Pvt. Ltd. With his innovative presentation, he covered the three important areas- “Challenges of Changing Power Sector Scenario”, “ Working for Talent Management” , “Building Leadership Pipeline for Delivering Success”.He concluded his thought provoking speech with an open-ended question- What power sector in the future will be?

The Keynote Speaker, Mr. R.V. Shahi, Chairman, Energy Infratech Pvt. Ltd gave his enlightening views on “ How HR can shake and bring success for any company”. According to him, the HR transforms the people and personality of the organization. HRM is behind each and every thing in the company.

The Inaugural Address by Chief Guest,Padma Shri Dr. Pritam Singh, Chairman – LEAD Centre gave a new direction to the summit. He emphasized on the fact that the name of HR should be changed to Organizational Development. Further he suggested the next conference to be from the Energy Sector. He also expressed his views to replace “Make in India” with “Innovate in India”. He concluded his address by saying that “It istime for the HR to demonstrate that “You need us”.

The first session concluded with a formal Vote of Thanks by Mr. Kamal Singh, Director General, NHRDN . According to him, no business is possible without people and when an organization recognizes its people, only then it can be successful. He also promised to consider the request of Dr. PritamSingh to organize next summit for the energy sector.

The second session started with a panel discussion on the topic- “Challenges of Changing Power Sector Scenario”.The panel comprised of Dr. Anil Sardana, MD, Tata Power, Mr. A K Jha, CMD, NTPC Ltd., Dr. Ashok Balyan, CEO – Oil & Gas Business, Reliance Group, Mr. AtulSobti, CMD, BHEL, Mr. S K Chaturvedi, Chairman, Joint Electricity Regulatory Commission. The Chairman & Moderatorwas Mr. R.V. Shahi, Chairman, Energy Infratech Pvt. Ltd.The panel discussed various problems and their possible solutions pertaining to different areas of HR in power sector. Distribution system is an important part of the power sector. They came out with a viewpoint that privatization is not the only solution to every problem. Holistic approach should be theneed of the hour. They discussed that HR changes and challenges are cross-cutting, impacting all the sectors of the economy and industries. Any integrated Power sector planning has to take into account different scenarios and also the strategies to deal with them. Similarly, any HR Policy has to accommodate the HR implications of the different Power scenarios. The discussion was followed by a Q&A round by all the delegates present in the summit. It was a very healthy discussion focusing on the important facets of the changing power sector.

The third session comprised of the theme “Working for Talent Management” wherein the panelists were Mr. Vinod Behari, CEO, Power Sector Skill Council of India, Mr. DeepakBharara, CHRO, LANCO InfraTech, Mr. V.C. Agarwal, President-HR, RPG Enterprises, Mr. R K Verma, Chief Engineer – Distribution, Central Electricity Authority .The Chairman & Moderator of the panel wasMr. Ajit Mathai, Director, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu India Pvt. Ltd.

The fourth session of the summit is on the theme“Building Leadership Pipeline for Delivering Success”. The panelists for this session areMr. U.P. Pani, Director (HR), NTPC Ltd., Dr. Asha Bhandarker,Distinguished Professor of Organizational Behaviour, IMI, Mr. S K Biswas, Director (Personnel), THDC India Ltd, Mr. ChetanTolia, CHRO, Tata Power, Mr. Raj Kumar Roy, President (Head), LANCO Solar. The Chairman & Moderator for this panel isMr. S V Nathan, Sr. Director & Chief Talent Officer, Deloitte.

In the Summit, as part of the college CSR initiative, the organizing team decided to contribute, on behalf of all the guest speakers, a token amount to the Ranganathan Society for social welfare and library development.

The second day of the summit will continue on 22 January 2016 with its fifth session on the theme “Building Employee Relationship and Engagement”. The panelists for this session would be Mr. Rajeev Bhadauria, Director – Group HR, Jindal Steel & Power Ltd., Mr. D. Bandyopadhyaya, Director HR, BHEL, Mr. K S Patro, Director (Personnel), Eastern Coalfields Ltd., Mr. Paritosh Mishra, VP HR, AES India, Mr. S Dev Roye, National Secretary, Centre of Indian Trade Unions. The Chairman & Moderatorwill beMr. Sarat Acharya, CMD, Neyveli Lignite Corporation.

The two day HR summit would end with a Valedictory Session in which the summary for the whole summit would be discussed by Mr.Saptarshi Chatterjee, Director, Human Capital Consulting, Deloitte followed by Valedictory Address by Mr. Atul Chaturvedi, IAS, Former Chairman, Public Enterprises Selection Board.