MDI’s 15-month Energy Management Program trains the participants in various disciplines of power sector and teaches about the latest techniques of management. As for the first time the school has admitted 20 self sponsored candidates, MDI has also constituted a placement cell to help place the students after the conclusion of the course. Dr. Atmanand, Dean MDI School of Energy Management said, industry interfaces with power companies and general industry has been formed to help 100 per cent placements of the self sponsored participants in the course.

Inaugurating the program, RV Shahi former Secretary Power, Government of India and Chairman Energy Infratech, congratulated the 52 participants to the course and said, the days to come will witness sea change in the working and managing of the power sector in the country. He made no bones about the fact when he acknowledged that the power sector in the country had been largely mismanaged and neglected. He attributed the customer indifference scenario mainly to lack of proper training and modern techniques adopted in the sector. Supervisors in the field had little exposure to modern management techniques and there was no significance attached to human resources development. He warned the participants that if they had to survive in the modern competitive field a customer friendly approach was necessary where we have to be sensitive and friendly to our customer’s needs and requirements.

RV Shahi who is also a member of the MDI Board of Governors impressed upon the participants to decentralize and modernize for which computerization will help the sector immensely. Stressing the role the power sector plays in the over all growth of a country, he said during the next 25 years, power sector has to have between eight to nine per cent growth in order to enable the over all growth to maintain its upward trend. For that we have to improve the performance of our power stations and bring out more and more innovative ideas to register this growth.

Welcoming the chief guest, MDI Diorector Prof CV Baxi said, while investments in power structure were significant, it was necessary for the participants to come out with fresh ideas and approach that needed changing people’s mindset.