Piyush Goyal presented National Awards for Meritorious Performance in Power Sector

Union Minister State (IC) for Power, Coal and New & Renewable Energy, Mr. Piyush Goyal, presented National Awards for Meritorious Performance in Power Sector for the year 2013-14 at a function held on 3^rd June, 2015.

While addressing the award ceremony, he said that after last year’s achievements, there are more challenging tasks waiting ahead and these awards are only small steps achieving the collective dream of providing 24x7 affordable and quality power to the nation. He congratulated the winners by saying that awards are recognition of good work and encouragement to perform better in future. The Minister also called upon private sector to be part of the development journey of the country by contributing their share in lowering price and increasing quality of power, generating employment opportunities, creating better distribution systems etc.

A total of 34 awards are given in the fields of early completion of thermal and hydro power and transmission projects, performance of thermal, hydro and nuclear power stations, performance of distribution companies and rural distribution franchise, transmission system availability and environment management award scheme for coal based thermal power stations.