Prime Minister presents excellence award to POWERGRID, CMD

New Delhi, Mar 8 (UNI) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today presented the excellence award to Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd (POWERGRID) Chairman and Managing Director R P Singh for his contribution towards growth of the company as well as the country's power sector.

In a conference of Chief Executives of Public Sector Enterprises held here, the Prime Minister awarded the 'Scope Award' for Excellence and Outstanding Contribution to the Public Sector Management -- Individual category for the year 2005-06.

In addition, Dr Singh also received the ''MOU Excellence Award'' conferred on POWERGRID for being amongst the Top Ten public sector enterprises (PSEs) by the Department of Public Enterprises, Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises.

Mr Singh has been closely associated with the power sector for 35 years covering critical areas of generation, transmission, and large system operation and distribution.

He also served with organisations such as TISCO, NTPC. He has been the Chairman, POWERGRID since November, 1996.

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