Corporate Ethics, Governance, and Social Responsibility

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Corporate Social Responsibility: The NTPC Model

J. Mohapatra

At the outset, I extend my heartfelt thanks to this institution—LIBA—for having selected the National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) as the recipient of the Mother Teresa award this year.¹ NTPC had started producing power in this country in 1982 and today we are a 27,000 megawatt power station. We have the country's 20 per cent installation capacity but we produce 28 per cent energy for the country. The Government has given us 75,000 megawatts to add on, so every day and every night, every man in this organization is so busy that we do not have the time to even breathe. We were the country's national thermal power corporation, the logo is carried in NTPC, but we are no more thermal. ...