Shri Ashwini Kumar Tripathy, RED (WR-II & OS) interacted with the participants of Girl
Empowerment Mission programme and their guardians at Lara on 24 th May 2023. Addressing the
gathering Shri Tripathy said, GEM programme is a very good CSR initiative of NTPC Limited, designed
for holistic development of girl child of nearby villages of NTPC Power Stations. It is a very good
residential programme for better utilization of summer vacation. With refreshment of regular course
curriculum, other extracurricular activities like, yoga, sports and games, art, dance, acting, self-
defense, and computer is taught to the children.
As a Corporate Social Responsibility-Community Development activity, GEM is being conducted at
Lara from 17 May to 12 June 2023 comprising of 40 girl children in the age group of 10-11 years from
9 surrounding villages are participating in this residential workshop being organized by NTPC Lara in
township. It is a four weeklong free of cost residential training programme. Expert trainer from Hero
Mind Mine is providing training to the children. After four weeks of training, the children will present
their learnings in the valedictory function.
Girl Empowerment Mission (GEM) is a flagship Corporate Social Responsibility initiative of NTPC
Limited, focused on the development of girl child of rural area reading in the government schools of
nearby NTPC projects and stations. In the year 2018, as a pilot project this programme was
conducted at NTPC Vindhyachal station. Now this initiative has spread to all projects and stations of
NTPC Limited across the country.
On this occasion Smt. Uma Tripathy, President (Arpita Mahila Samiiti, WR-II), Shri Diwakar Kaushik,
Executive Director (Lara), Shri Akhilesh Singh, GM (Operation & Maintenance), Shri Rajeev Ranjan,
GM (Fuel Management), Shri Samarendra Kumar Roy, GM(Operation), Shri Ravi Shankar, GM
(Project Construction), Shri Kanhaiya Das, AGM (HR), office bearer of Prerita Mahila Samiti children
and their parents were present.
