In its endeavour to spread awareness amongs children and sensitize them on energy conservation, Club Enerji Tata Power’s flagship energy conservation programme in association with Bureau of Energy Efficiency(BEE), Ministry of Power, Government of India has organised a painting competition for schools across Jamshedpur.
The competition is held in three stages, namely- local, state and national level. School students of Standard 4th, 5th and 6th are eligible to participate in this competition. Cash prizes worth Rs 33,000 per State/Union Territory (Rs.11.55 lakhs for 35 States/UTs) will be distributed to state level winners on 14th November, 2011.
For the winners of National Competition, cash prizes worth Rs.7 lakhs will be awarded by the Ministry of Power on 14th December, 2011 which is also celebrated as National Energy Conservation day, in the presence of eminent dignitaries holding very high positions in the Government
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Speaking on the initiative, Mr. P. L. Manjrekar, General Manager, Jojobera Thermal Plant, Tata Power said, “Club Enerji brings unique engagement initiatives for children from time to time to impart knowledge of energy and resource conservation. This painting competition in association with BEE is one such effort. We intend to reach out to more and more schools to increase awareness on the importance of saving energy through young school children.”
Under the School level competition, school painting competition has started. RVS academy has already undertaken the competition and Vidhya Bharti Chinmaya Vidyalaya will be the next school to participate. School Children can select any one topic from the following:
- Save electricity to avoid power cuts
- Use energy with care
- The less you burn, the more you earn
Out of the paintings submitted by the students, school principals from the respective schools will select two best paintings and send it to the Nodal Officer of the State before 4th October, 2011. These paintings will be further shortlisted by the nodal office to arrive at the best painting for the State. Thus, leading to nominations for the nation level competition. Further, all students participating at school level painting competition will be issued certificate of participation.
About Tata Power:
Tata Power is India's largest private sector power utility with an installed generation capacity of over 3182 MW and a presence in all the segments of the power sector viz Generation (thermal, hydro, solar and wind), Transmission, Distribution and Trading. The Company has successful public-private partnerships in Generation, Transmission and Distribution - "North Delhi Power Limited" with Delhi Vidyut Board for distribution in North Delhi, 'Powerlinks Transmission Ltd.' with Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd. for evacuation of Power from Tala hydro plant in Bhutan to Delhi and 'Maithon Power Ltd.' with Damodar Valley Corporation for a 1050 MW Mega Power Project at Jharkhand. It has acquired 30% stake in Coal Companies at Indonesia and is developing the first 4000 MW Ultra Mega Power Project at Mundra (Gujarat) based on super-critical technology. With its track record of technology leadership, customer care and redefining contours of the Indian power sector, Tata Power is poised for a five-fold growth and committed to 'lighting up lives' for generations to come.
