Page 83 - January 2022 Issue

Awareness of Employees and Communities • Provision of Non-Refundable Advance to
regarding COVID-19 etc.
• 22 Functional training programmes were
conducted during the period benefitting
approximately 2292 employees. Few major
programmes conducted were in the areas of:
- Overview of e-vehicle and charging
infrastructure.
- Controlled Switching basics, application and
recent trends.
- Reactor Switching Challenges and Control
Strategy.
- Cyber Security, Digital Substation,
Digitalization.
- Best practices in S/S and TL Maintenance.
• Few other major webinars/ talks held during the
period by Experts for employees are mentioned
below-
- Crisis Management for Leaders.
- Webinar on Awareness of Employees and
Communities regarding COVID-19.
- Improving Wellbeing Through Mindfulness.
- Life after lockdown; leading through
COVID-19.
- Unmute yourself, Talking about depression.
- Cancer Care During COVID.
- Stress and Anxiety during COVID-19.
- Do’s and Don’ts for Diabetic & Heart patients
during COVID-19.
• Online/virtual training of new joined i.e.
Executive Trainee Batch. The Internal/External
Faculty is taking the classes online on a daily
basis.
• Promotions and interviews done through video
conferencing.
• Expeditious Payment facilitated to agencies and
local contractors based on scanned document to
enable them to further release Payment to their
workers.
56 Building Self Reliant, Resurgent, Resilient India - PSEs Contribution Amidst COVID-19
Members of the PF Trust on the Outbreak of
Epidemic/Pandemic to mitigate hardship.
• Facility for home collection of samples for
COVID-19 testing.
• Facilities of medical treatment during lockdown
period COVID-19:
- Part Time Medical consultants (PTM) are
engaged in Regions/ Corporate Centre and
in case of medical exigencies, they may be
contacted on mobile for consultation.
- The services of telemedicine consultation
offered by empanelled hospitals in the
Region/ Corporate Centre can also be availed
in times of requirement.
• COVID-19 Infodesk: A Dedicated COVID
Communication webpage / web repository
created on Intranet for easy access and
dissemination of information related to COVID-19
issued by POWERGRID and Govt. authorities
including various circulars, guidelines, SOP’s,
Do’s and Don’ts etc.
• Regular monitoring, review meetings with HoD’s,
address to employees through Microsoft TEAMS,
video conferencing tools by the top management
for continuous engagement and keeping the
employee morale high during this pandemic.