Dear Readers,

The monsoon arrived bit earlier than expected, bringing much needed respite to the City from the sultry heat. However it played havoc in a destructive manner in the hilly regions of the northern states which resulted in loss of hundreds of lives of pilgrims and natives of Uttarkand. The financial loss was calculated over a thousand crores? The whole nation grieved over the calamity and the employees of all Tata Group Companies contributed one day’s salary, like in every such natural calamity in the past, to the succour of the Uttarkand government which had a herculean task ahead for rehabilitation and reconstruction.

At the same time, the food and vegetable prices shot through the roof, making people in all strata of life shy away from the market confining to other cheaper alternatives! Such times, we wonder if there is any relationship between inflation and cost of living at all? This increase is purportedly caused by loss of harvest due to heavy showers or hoarding of the available produce by wholesalers. People just have no option but fall prey to whatever tricks they are subjected to. Whatever steps government seem to have taken did not reflect in the overall cost of things daily needed by people.

Other side of the story may be a cause for cheer for the whole country as the good monsoon could bring in better harvest in the second quarter and perhaps we may have better days ahead!

Schools and Colleges have reopened and the routine life has begun for most of the people. Companies are trying to reconcile their books of accounts to see what is in store for them in the 1st quarter. Whether it is rain or no rain, Mumbaikars dare all odds to reach their office or factories situated in the business districts, travelling by water logged rail services or pot-holed roads.

Lets pull up our socks and wade through the waves of challenges and surprises that my come along during our journey towards our goals of personal as well as professional life.

Best wishes,

Performance

All the performance parameters were lower than planned due to forced outages of Units 5 & 6, low PLF in

Units 5, 6 & 8.

Fuel cost and COG was better than plan due to lower generation and higher fuel gas firing in Unit 6.

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Editorial

Reports of Highlights from

PERFORMANCE, SECURITY, ENVIRONMENT, SAFETY, SPORTS, OPERATION, ADMN/ HR

JUNE 2013

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Security

• Security officers meeting held for reviewing of IMS/Security/Audit

• All S.O were present. A police Bandobust of 12 policemen were deployed at Main Gate of the plant by

RCF Police station in the wake of proposed Morcha by Shivsena activists in protest against Unit # 6 Coal

Conversion project. Apart from police Bandobust, necessary plant security was tightened up.

• Mumbai Operation Security Officer’s Meeting was held, attended by all security officers of Trombay,

Hydro, T & D.

• Security officers meeting held for reviewing of IMS/Security/Audit. All S.O were present.

• Security officers meeting held for reviewing & preparation of IMS/Security /Audit. All S.O were present.

• Security officers meeting held for reviewing of Security/Audit compliance status. All S.O were present.

• 2nd

Security Prevention Advance course by M/S BSI Ltd, Israel conducted at Trombay between 10 Jun &

22 Jun 2013 . Total 45 security personnel from MO Area undergone the training.

World Environment Week – 2013

Celebration at Trombay

Trombay Thermal Power Station has celebrated world environment week from 31st

May 2013 to 5th

June 2013. Each

day, various events were conducted and all the departments had participated in the events. The details about the

events are given below.

31st

May – Tree Plantation: Tree Plantation program was orgainsed on occasion of first day of World Environment

Week.

Mr. Pradeep Manjrekar, Head- Trombay and All HOD’s from Trombay joined hands together for planting 40 saplings of

casuarina near new tank farm area.

1st May – Inauguration of Continuous Ambient Air Monitoring Station

Continuous Ambient Air Monitoring station was inaugurated at Trombay. Plant was inaugurated by Mr. Pradeep

Manjrekar.

2nd

May – Drawing and Essay Competition for employee children

On occasion of environment week drawing and essay competition was organised for Employee children at Trombay

colony. Theme of competition was ‘save earth’.

2nd

May – Drawing and Essay Competition for employee children

On occasion of environment week drawing and essay competition was organised for Employee children at Trombay

colony. Theme of competition was ‘save earth’.

3rd June- Environmental Awareness Training:

Environmental Awareness training was conducted for Tata Power employees as well as contractor employees.

5th June – Environment Day closing ceremony

SAFETY HIGHLIGHTS

1. CSC meeting was conducted for the June 2013.

2. Safe job plan for the “GAIL 18" LINE REPLACEMENT WORK” was reviewed and comments communicated to the concerned for implementation at the site.

3. 34 NM - Investigations done and recommendations derived. Out of 34 recommendations- 12

Recommendations closed and 22 recommendations pending 4. 07 Injuries & 1 occurrence- Investigations done and recommendations derived. CFTs were formed for

investigating two incidents and an occurrence. Total 18 recommendations were derived and 7 completed. 11 pending recommendations have completion dates in July and Sept 13.

5. Various special safety trainings like safety standards and procedures training, Spandan, WDP (worker

development program) were conducted. During the month 481.5 mandays Basic safety & IMS awareness training was imparted covering 241 own employees and 626 contractor employees. “Basic safety training for contractors “was conducted. During the course of training total 322 contract employees were covered. That included 372 Freshers and 243 repeaters covered. Various trainings like Health related training, defensive driving, statutory and regulatory, confined space training, mobile crane safety, PTW, working at heights trainings were also conducted during the month.

6. SPANDAN training was conducted in Trombay through “Aakar Empowernment Trust”. It’s a

three day training Program for HODs and Sectional Heads. Covered 27 participants.

7. WDP (worker development Program) was conducted in Trombay through “Aakar Empowerment

Trust”. Its one day training Program for two batches for contractor supervisors covered 87

participants.

WDP (worker devpt Program)

Spandan training program

1. Unit#6-Coal berth project meeting with CCO and contractors CSM requirements at Trombay

2. Trombay Safety Apex meeting was held for June 2013.

3. KMI of Safety department reaches 33.33 YTD

4. SIAT (safety intervention audit training): 4 SIAT audits were conducted. Unsafe conditions and unsafe acts

from the audit observations were corrected.

Sports Trombay representatives participate in Billiards & Snooker Championship Competition. TATA Power is the

Winners in ‘Snookers’ and Runners up in ’Billiards’ in ‘Inter Companies Tournaments’ held at Tata Sports Club. Photos are attached. Following are the Winning Team players [Snooker].

1] S.R.Khade.[Capt.]

2] N.C.Patel.

3] A.V.Ghadge.

4] Lawrence Duarte. [Hon.Sec.Billiards and Snooker]

Operation Department

Following are the Knowledge sharing sessions conducted.

Date Knowledge sharing topic Faculty Venue

07-Jun-13

Black out operation MPM hatre / PVRaut/ K Rohit

/AB Kanade Unit 6 Conf room

Grid Failures (Why grid fails?) K B Surve Unit 6 Conf room

09-Jun-13 Fast & Slow changeover M Sadiq Unit 8 Conf room

11-Jun-13 Black start operation- Specific to unit 7 Sumit / Kartik Unit 7 CR

13-Jun-13 Hot start up, rolling and synchronization S K Kamdi / Purushattam R Unit 6 Conf room

18-Jun-13 Sustainability awareness & Commercial

aspects of Power Generation Ashish Bhat Unit 6 Conf room

19-Jun-13

Unit 5 Trip out on Turbine Class B Protection Ashish Shukla / K B Surve Unit 6 Conf room

Unit 6 Trip out on Generator Class A

Protection Rakesh Verma Unit 6 Conf room

Report on Samvaad Session held on 21

st June 2013

The Eighth session of “Samvaad” held in Trombay on 21st June 2013 wherein 20 Managers from different

departments interacted with Mr. Manjrekar.

The session started with safety instructions and safety contact.

Mr. Manjrekar discussed and explained the commercial performance of Trombay like factors on which tariff

calculation is based on, importance of MERC in regulated power business like ours. This information was liked by all

participants. He also makes them aware about the current situation of power industry and the relevance of

commonly used terms like PPA (Power Purchase Agreement), Regulated business and Power Trading. During the

session he also mentioned about the progress of clearances for the Unit 6 Coal Conversion Project, which is very

critical to maintaining the commercial competitiveness of Trombay. Mr. Manjrekar also shared the incident of fire in

Jojobera Plant and the learnings form the incident.

He agreed with the view expressed by some of the participants that we need to reduce food wastage in canteen and

invited suggestions for the same. The issue of management of contract employees and suggestions for simplifying

the process was also discussed.

1. Good session.

2. Gained lot of knowledge regarding technical side.

3. purchase and their calculations impacting our

company.

4. General interaction by other employees present in

It was an informative

session.

Mr. N C Belsare – Chemical

This session is very informative,

interactive and also beneficial to

me. I first time see the frankness

with engineers while discussion

with our GM.

Mr. Mahesh Gharat – CL&P